“…Along with Latin America, West Africa is expected to be one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas for the American market…” – National Energy Policy Report, Office of the Vice President Richard Cheney, May 16, 2001 The Kony 2012 viral video – so far, this year’s biggest – focused so much attention […]
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WikiLeaks and other reformers: has Machiavelli met his match?
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s most instructive to read carefully the Stratfor emails WikiLeaks released recently. Their language and tone are alarming: both brutal and ruthless, in my view they reflect all that is wrong with a world now programmed to a rampant neo-liberal economic model that is underpinned by Machiavelli’s philosophy of power. In an era where governments […]
