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HRW Claims US ‘Most Powerful Proponent of Human Rights’? | Opinion | teleSUR

via HRW Claims US ‘Most Powerful Proponent of Human Rights’? | Opinion | teleSUR.

haha. But it IS true in that libertarians are extremely naive. In 1 sentence: you would need to have initial conditions of perfect equality for libertarianism to deliver the utopia it promises… and even then it cannot work as power, even if gained competitively, will generate monopolies and corruption if left unchecked. To be taken seriously, libertarians need to focus on how they would run the government in detail (like syndico-anarchist have attempted to do for a century).

This is a 6 minute clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009):http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/g…

It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics. Produced by Jonathan Shockley. This clip features Noam Chomsky.

http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot…

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