It smells and sounds fishy. The Wikileaks story in the last few paragraphs is the strongest evidence of that. And all the focus on Russia, one of the top US declared enemies. Funding journalism that aligns with US interests doesn't seem at all to be independent, investigative journalism. Bottom line about US support for 'democracy' is th…
It smells and sounds fishy. The Wikileaks story in the last few paragraphs is the strongest evidence of that. And all the focus on Russia, one of the top US declared enemies. Funding journalism that aligns with US interests doesn't seem at all to be independent, investigative journalism. Bottom line about US support for 'democracy' is that it only supports 'democracy' in instances that advance US hegemonic control. Look at Gaza: no evidence the US supports 'democracy', but rather, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide. The article mentions David Petraeus connected to all this tangentially. I just read a horrible account of Petraeus and other US military commanders in both Iraq and Afghanistan chronically lying for years about the 'success' those two major American military campaigns were having...against all the evidence the officer who made the claim observed firsthand, in Bacevich's and Sjursen's "Paths of Dissent: Soldier's Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars". It smells and sounds fishy.
It smells and sounds fishy. The Wikileaks story in the last few paragraphs is the strongest evidence of that. And all the focus on Russia, one of the top US declared enemies. Funding journalism that aligns with US interests doesn't seem at all to be independent, investigative journalism. Bottom line about US support for 'democracy' is that it only supports 'democracy' in instances that advance US hegemonic control. Look at Gaza: no evidence the US supports 'democracy', but rather, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide. The article mentions David Petraeus connected to all this tangentially. I just read a horrible account of Petraeus and other US military commanders in both Iraq and Afghanistan chronically lying for years about the 'success' those two major American military campaigns were having...against all the evidence the officer who made the claim observed firsthand, in Bacevich's and Sjursen's "Paths of Dissent: Soldier's Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars". It smells and sounds fishy.