Wow, under Gaddafi Libyans had free education, electricity, health care and land, seeds and livestock for people who wished to farm.
Gasoline cost 14 cents a gasoline and there was 50% subsidy on car purchases.
Obviously they have lost all this under the NATO-led coup.
Gaddafi’s problem was that he insisted on keeping oil revenues to benefit his people instead of handing them over to US corporations. He also had some very dangerous ideas about economic democracy.
The US has been demonizing world leaders that refuse to cave in to US interests ever since they launched a coup against Arbenz, who was democratically elected by the Guatemalan people, in 1954.
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Hi Doc – Iraq too was probably the most modern nation in the Middle East – women in the professions, health care, education, a modern secular society. Sure Saddam was a tyrant but he keep his foot on Shia and Sunni alike. Gulf state sheiks and emirs would travel to Iraq for medical treatment. But hey – Saddam had to go. Things are so much better now.
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And if Obama gets his way, Syria will be next.
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Obama’s speciality failed states.
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He’s clearly following the neoconservative playbook about re-aligning the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and balkanizing Russia to guarantee US access to dwindling fossil fuel and mineral resources.
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Doesn’t the fact that our media demonizes certain leaders because such leaders threaten the interests of certain bankers / corporations mean that journalism does not exist at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc? It seems that the media should be referred to as propagandists rather journalists, no?
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Absolutely. They are agents of the corporate state.
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What other institutions, besides media, which ostensibly exist to serve the public, actually serve the interests of corporate/banker elites? I am tempted to say, on the one hand, even our schools, law enforcement, and hospitals can be described in this way, but on the other hand I get the impression the ruling elites want to get rid of these institutions at some point. At any rate, I wonder what the world would look like if the tyranny of the corporate state did not exist.
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You pose a very interesting question, Ruben. I have always maintained that the upper middle class (doctors, lawyers, academics, social workers, etc) play a very essential role in promoting the interests of the corporate elite. Academics and professionals set the rules by which the working class is forced to operate. They serve as gatekeepers in a way and enjoy both riches and status for their services. They are also responsible for fabricating the ideology the rest of us are expected to live by. With a well functioning middle class, there’s no need for the police and military to control the working class by brute force.
With the recession, the US middle class is being systematically dismantled. I suspect this is part of the reason for the increased militarization of the police and increased police violence against so many Americans.
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