Re: As an outsider, it appears to me that the US is the victim of a bloodless coup in which Christian fanatics, Zionists, Big Oil, the Banks and the Military-Industrial-Complex have taken control.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'd lump Christian fanatics and Zionists together and label them "Judeofascists", then I'd dismiss Big Oil --as I explained previously, the oil market is basically a monopsony, that is, a market swayed by a predominant buyer, the US. Keep in mind that the US alone soaks up 25-30% of the world's oil production and that most oil producing countries have no other chip to bargain... Mideast countries have to sell their oil to the US, whether they like it or not. And if those countries did manage to stick together and impose a $100/barrel to the US then US oil companies could just tap West African oil at a much, much higher rate than the current one. Instead of splurging billions of dollars on maintaining troops in iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc., the same amount of money would be spent on oil prospecting and drilling from Angola to Nigeria. (*)
As for the so-called military-industrial complex, I think it's time to update Eisenhower's most famous coinage: it's now more appropriate to talk about the media-military complex (**).
Gus
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