[GPSCC-chat] Kucinich's View

[Spencer Graves]

       In my view, Kucinich misses an extremely important part of the 
real drivers for US foreign policy including the military:  There is 
only one substantive constituency for US foreign policy, and that's the 
people with business interests in other countries.  These people want US 
support for whatever will give them more power (and therefore usually 
more money) in these relationships.  With their substantial control of 
the media, they've usually been able to find high-sounding rationale to 
support state terror in foreign countries to limit the possibilities 
that people everywhere (in the US and elsewhere) can successfully 
petition for improved wages, working conditions and environmental 
protection.  They are also more interested in relative standard of 
living, not absolute, which is why we "have to" cut the eduction budget, 
and why foreign governments are pushed to cut their education budgets -- 
because an educated electorate is better able to advance their own 
interests.


       Thanks for this.
       Spencer


On 7/15/2011 6:04 AM, Gerry Gras wrote:
>
> FYI,
>
> "Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While Americans' Wealth Is 
> Stolen"
>
>     http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/15
>
> Gerry
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