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Power, illusion and America's last taboo
Pilger, John
http://johnpilger.com/articles/power-illusion-and-americas-last-tabooDate Written: 2009-07-04 Year Published: 2009 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24524 Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same. Subject Headings |