This excerpt features Dr. Gus Abu-Sitta and Andre Vltchek discussing the Ecology of war and its effects on people living in war conditions. One of their digressions from the main topic was the idea that sanctions, and other Western initiatives are designed to denude the State of its non-coercive powers
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Parchment in the Fire: Is America an Oligarchy? – The New Yorker
Is America an Oligarchy? – The New Yorker. From the Dept. of Academics Confirming Something You Already Suspected comes a new study concluding that rich people and organizations representing business interests have a powerful grip on U.S. government policy. After examining differences in public opinion across income groups on
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Rich people rule!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/08/rich-people-rule/ Filed under: Class, Democracy, Political Science, The State
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