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Have the powers that organize these events chosen the USA to always be on top? Are we assured of our position as instigator - and NEVER victim?"

A good question.

The U.S. has historically taken top because capital, wealth, was not terribly mobile. But beginning in the '70s, wealth became increasingly mobile, and half of the world's largest economies are not nations but rather corporations.

As long as large numbers of the weathy and their means of production were essentially stuck here, there was a need to keep American workers comfortable.

But no more. Now the jobs can go to Mexico, or Thailand, in a wink. U.S. workers are no longer so important to the oligarchy.

And so you see the rollback of civil rights, the erosion of earnings, and it will only get worse here.

We are nearing the point at which the show is over, the curtains part, and we get to see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

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  crespi5 months, 4 weeks ago
  
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  "Always been America?"
  
  Mostly, also in the early 20th century BRITISH banks were right there colluding with dirty tricks.
  
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    dissent5 months, 4 weeks ago
    
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    they wrote the instruction manual. we adapted and fine tuned it into a much more refined covert art form. then again, the brits never had to pretend to be fair. we do if only for cover
    
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