SERVILITY of the Satellites: The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe

[Octafish]

A couple of kids exploited as mules, I believe, in Morocco. More info here. We better get used to it, as that's what's coming to the United States and Europe if the warmongers and traitors on Wall Street continue to have their way.

The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe

The Servility of the Satellites

by DIANA JOHNSTONE
Paris, France. CounterPunch WEEKEND EDITION JULY 5-7, 2013

The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States.

SNIP...

The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not.

And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level. This has been done by the power of money in the United States, where candidates are comparable to race horses owned by billionaires. In Europe, it has been done by the European Union, whose bureaucracy has gradually taken over the critical economic functions of independent states, leaving national governments to concoct huge controversies around private matters, such as marriage, while public policy is dictated from the EU Commission in Brussels.

But behind that Commission, and behind the US electoral game, lies the identical anonymous power that dictates its desires to this trans-Atlantic entity: financial capital.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/05/the-servility-of-the-satellites/

THIS is what the problem is -- justice vs just-us. Who spies on whom. Who orders whom. Who owns What.

Like the great DUer rhett o rick said: It's a life-or-death battle between the 99-percent and the 1-percent.

No, it's not fair. We're not in the Club. And while we may have the numbers, they have the cash on hand in Switzerland and the Caymans. So, we don't have anywhere near the means to buy back the government.

We better get used to it. Or else wake the hell up.