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Exception
To The Rulers
Amy
Goodman with David Goodman
By Susan
Raymond
In between hosting Democracy Now! on Pacifica Radio (heard
locally on WBAI at 9 AM weekdays), and winning numerous prestigious
journalism awards for her reporting, Amy Goodman, along with her brother
David, has managed to write a book that exposes the ‘oilygarchy’,
that cabal of oil people who fomented the terrorism that was used to justify the ‘war on terrorism’.
They
explain in a clear manner how the roots go back decades – they name names,
give dates and places – so that the reader can clearly see how those who pull
the strings now are just carrying on in the tradition of their forefathers,
and how mainstream media has helped to preserve the falsehoods they spew. It
is as Josef Goebels (Hitler’s Minister of
Propaganda, lest we forget) said, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Basic
greed and gluttony has created this rapacious entity that Amy and David call
an ‘oilygarchy’, bent on controlling the energy
supplies into perpetuity, no matter the cost, no matter what they have to do,
no matter who gets hurt, as long as it’s not one of them. They have no shame,
no sleepless nights worrying about sending our children (but not their own)
to fight a war that they created in order to gain absolute control over the
oil in the Middle East. Somehow they seem to
believe that we’re too stupid, too frightened, to in thrall to the lies they
spread to bother checking things out. Thank goodness Amy and David have taken
the time and energy to sort it out for us, thank
goodness we have a reliable source to consult. Just writing about it makes me
angry all over again – I think I need to go back and re-read the book!
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