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The president is simply no longer there, in terms of understanding the contradictions of the policies he and his foreign policy advisers have been carrying out.
The Pentagon’s supreme confidence in it’s ability and American arms makers to wage future techno-wars has been reinforced by a group of new-age militarists in Silicon Valley.
In the last two decades we’ve gotten used to the problem of legal challenges to new government programs being shot down precisely because their secret nature makes collecting evidence or showing standing or injury difficult, and Murthy proved no different.
Real democracy would involve the localisation of decision-making, the end of global corporate imperialism and the restoration to communities everywhere of the right to shape their own destinies.
Presidential elections merely serve to maintain the status quo. Once elected president, that person becomes part of the dictatorial continuum that is the American imperial presidency today.
The Wikileaks head is finally out of prison. A look back at some of the comments that kept him inside.