Peter Ford
Book review of Killing Democracy by Finian Cunningham, Daniel Kovalik, Jeremy Kuzmarov, KJ Noh, and Ron Ridenour
Whose democracy is being killed here ? The great thing about this eye-opening and chilling book is that it shows how, in the process of killing democracy abroad, Western elites have all but killed their own.
In manufacturing consent for ill-advised interventions ranging from Chile (removing an elected government), Palestine (ditto, after Hamas won the national elections in 2005), and Afghanistan (creating mayhem), to Libya (left in chaos), Iraq (spawning ISIS), Syria (removing a secular government and installing Al Qaida) and Ukraine (helping stage a coup then using Ukraine to goad Russia) Western governments with their cheer-leading mainstream media acolytes have ridden roughshod over the wishes of not only local populations but also their own, ignoring or moulding opinion to suit.