"In [the country] right now there is a military-business regime, with a little bit of democratic makeup."For more background on the US supported military coup, read this.
This sounds like an excellent -- indeed, near-perfect -- description of the true state of the United States in these degraded days of ours. While the sinister comic opera of factional in-fighting amongst the elite provides an increasingly thin and cracked patina of democracy, the militarist-corporatist machines continue their ravenous devouring of the fat of the land and the flesh of the weak.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Traditional Values: Obama Backs Oligarchic 'Continuity' Down South
by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque. Commentary on the one year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras.