A few days ago, Jon Steward hosted Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, a United States Congresswoman from the Democratic Party, to discuss with her American politics under the Obama administration. Her admissions and comments were very interesting as well as revealing about the nature not only of American economy and politics but also of the international political and economic system.
So, what this American Democrat Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, indirectly admits and actually explains, is that money and corporations have overtaken politics and policy-making. In so many words she says, for example, that government policies or initiatives about environmental degradation and climate change as well as health care and so forth, are undermined, influenced, and constrained by corporate interests, by lobbyists and elected congressmen/women who make money by advocating these interests, and by the elected government itself that tries to satisfy the political and economic requests and interests of the ones who funded its election campaign. Continue reading
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