Chasing the money down the rabbit hole
Joe Bageant gets to the heart of the matter again -- follow the money. Not the media show, not the politicians.
In his latest essay, Bageant talks about what keeps coming up at my Tuesday night hangout, Manuel's Tavern: the true power never appears on television (TVs hang in corners of the room and above the bar).
"...the global decision makers, international planners, financial institutions, political parties, media conglomerates, corporations, banks, a hegemonic, accumulative bloc [are] working in concert to coordinate the extraction of wealth from first and third world alike" says Bageant.
He goes on to make it clear that financial global elites are the string pullers. Bageant writes, "A series of privately held international institutions to which and from which money can be moved to leverage nations and populations according to their needs is probably gonna do just that because they can."
It's ironic that Bageant's piece about the anti-human agenda of the power (read: money) behind the puppet politicians appears on the same page that Alexander Cockburn proudly offers his series of "exclusive" 9/11 conspiracy-debunking articles. His work on the subject, which I partially examined here, is nothing more than cheap shots and journalistic hubris. But if he wants to drain the meaning from the largest unsolved crime in U.S. history, that's his own lookout. At least he's publishing Bageant, who does get to the heart of matters we know to be true.
And for excellent, ego-free analysis of the catalyzing event of the "war on terror," I recommend the below video, "Smoke and Mirrors":
Joe Bageant gets to the heart of the matter again -- follow the money. Not the media show, not the politicians.
In his latest essay, Bageant talks about what keeps coming up at my Tuesday night hangout, Manuel's Tavern: the true power never appears on television (TVs hang in corners of the room and above the bar).
"...the global decision makers, international planners, financial institutions, political parties, media conglomerates, corporations, banks, a hegemonic, accumulative bloc [are] working in concert to coordinate the extraction of wealth from first and third world alike" says Bageant.
He goes on to make it clear that financial global elites are the string pullers. Bageant writes, "A series of privately held international institutions to which and from which money can be moved to leverage nations and populations according to their needs is probably gonna do just that because they can."
It's ironic that Bageant's piece about the anti-human agenda of the power (read: money) behind the puppet politicians appears on the same page that Alexander Cockburn proudly offers his series of "exclusive" 9/11 conspiracy-debunking articles. His work on the subject, which I partially examined here, is nothing more than cheap shots and journalistic hubris. But if he wants to drain the meaning from the largest unsolved crime in U.S. history, that's his own lookout. At least he's publishing Bageant, who does get to the heart of matters we know to be true.
And for excellent, ego-free analysis of the catalyzing event of the "war on terror," I recommend the below video, "Smoke and Mirrors":
