David Swanson: A Cold War Re-Education in 8 Minutes
"The U.S. could have chosen hot war, but could also have chosen peace."
"The U.S. could have chosen hot war, but could also have chosen peace."
Congress is now controlled by politicians who raise money and win reelection by granting political favors to their supporters. For example, high-priced lobbyists for Wall Street first devised the deregulation that made too-big-to-fail banks possible, and then fashioned the faux financial fix-it legislation that followed the 2008 economic crisis. These new laws featured a “highly complex stew of new regulations” that could not be well implemented and “would likely not solve the underlying … problem even if they were.”