- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
US President Donald Trump has signed an order to strip back the federally-funded news organisation Voice of America, accusing it of being “anti-Trump” and “radical”.
A White House statement said the order would “ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda”, and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media railing against the “leftist”, “partisan” VOA.
The kleptocrats run every nation, afaict. There may be a few small exceptions, we will see, and see if they can keep it that way.
The difference is the kind of kleptocrat. For a long time most of the west has had Establishment capitalists, people who have organized the status quo to benefit themselves and protect their wealth.
What we are witnessing now is the displacement of the old Establishment by a new breed, Disaster capitalists, who don’t care about the status quo and thrive on social and regulatory chaos.
Russia has had this breed ever since the fall of the USSR. America is getting a taste of it now.