'Democracy has long been dead in the West.'
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Finian Cunningham, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Daniel Kovalik, KJ Noh, and Ron
Ridenour have published a useful compendium of some of Washington’s
regime changes and public deceptions since World War II. The information
they have collected is well known and largely correct. The authors use
the information to reach the reasonable conclusion that by its own
actions the US government over time has discredited the belief that the
US government is a well-meaning one holding out hope to the world.
I don’t much care for the book’s title Killing Democracy. Democracy
has long been dead in the West. No western government represents its
people. A few years back former American president Jimmy Carter more
accurately described the United States as an oligarchy. In Europe the
effort has been underway for decades to destroy national sovereignty and
unite Europe in an authoritarian government in which the people have no
voice.
It is truth and respect for truth that has been killed. The authors
make this point themselves, noting the failure of the media to perform
its function, instead perpetrating false narratives that serve secret
agendas.