SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
The Warlords of America

From the New Statesman via ZNet, an essay on how a Kerry presidency may very well turn out to be worse than Bush's:

Every modern president has been, in large part, a media creation. Thus, the murderous Reagan is sanctified still; Rupert Murdoch's Fox Channel and the post-Hutton BBC have differed only in their forms of adulation. And Bill Clinton is regarded nostalgically by liberals as flawed but enlightened; yet Clinton's presidential years were far more violent than Bush's and his goals were the same: "the integration of countries into the global free-market community", the terms of which, noted the New York Times, "require the United States to be involved in the plumbing and wiring of nations' internal affairs more deeply than ever before". The Pentagon's "full-spectrum dominance" was not the product of the "neo-cons" but of the liberal Clinton, who approved what was then the greatest war expenditure in history. According to the Guardian, Clinton's heir, John Kerry, sends us "energising progressive calls". It is time to stop this nonsense.

Click here for the rest.

The bottom line here is that both Democrats and Republicans fight not for America's freedom, but for the economic interests of America's super-wealthy. As long as our government treats the people of the world as resources to be exploited, as long as our government is willing to shed blood in order to maintain the current wealth dominated economic order, expect terrorism to get worse.

Just remember, Kerry wants to "stay the course" in Iraq. He's not a peace candidate at all.

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