The authoritarian ruling ruling elite were once scared of democracy and liberal values, but through propaganda they managed to turn it to their advantage. Now they pretend to be democratic and fair and start wars all over the world because they say other countries don't share our values. Their imperialism never stopped. They call it Liberal Interventionism, which is cover for the Neoconservative wars. They also tell us that capitalism is about getting the rewards of your hard work, but they prefer to plunder.
Before we stumble into a nuclear war and end life on the planet, the American people might want to watch Oliver Stone’s four-part series of interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin on “Showtime.” Stone accomplishes what Western journalists should do but don’t, by penetrating deeply into the personality of this historic figure.
Director Oliver Stone interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin for Showtime’s “The Putin Interviews.”
Typically these days, American TV news personalities use interviews with a demonized foreign leader, like Putin, to demonstrate their own “toughness” on air, hurling insulting questions at the target and pretending that this preening behavior proves their courage.
In reality, it is bad journalism for a wide variety of reasons: The interview subject will normally retreat into canned talking points, so nothing is really learned; the TV viewer will get to see some theatrics but no insights into what makes the foreign leader tick; and – most importantly – chances of going to war with the despised leader’s country increase.
Yet, it’s not all bad: the “confrontation” will boost the career prospects of the self-aggrandizing “journalist” who will add the highlights of the insult-fest to his or her video résumé.
Stone does something quite different and, in today’s modern world, quite remarkable. As you go deeper into the four segments of “The Putin Interviews,” you begin to realize that Stone, the award-winning movie director, is using his directorial skills to peel back the layers of self-consciousness that can inhibit an actor from reaching his or her full potential, but, in this case, Stone is using those same techniques to get Putin to reveal more of his true self.
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They also tell us that capitalism is about getting the rewards of your hard work,
It could be much more that way if we eliminated government privileges for private credit creation.
There's two types of capitalism. There's people working hard and enjoying it, and they get plenty of time to relax to if that's what they want (like me). Then there is the type of capitalism that the ruling elite pretends is the same as mom and pop small businesses. But this is imperialism. When the left criticise capitalism this is the type they mean.
Then there is the type of capitalism that the ruling elite pretends is the same as mom and pop small businesses.
I don't see that small businesses are any more entitled to what is, in essence, the public's credit but for private gain, than larger ones. Nor are small credit unions, savings and loans, etc. noble institutions either.
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