Provoking a disastrous worldwide confrontation with mighty China by seizing and imprisoning one of its leading technology executives reminds me of a comment I made several years ago about America's behavior under the rule of its current political elites.
Ruled by a regime closely tied to local, European, Israeli and Russia based oligarchs, the political elite was a product of a political upheaval in 2004,(the so-called“Orange Revolution”) funded by the US.
In the Soviet Union(1917- 1991), neoclassical architecture was very popular among the political elite, as it effectively expressed state power and a vast array of neoclassical building was erected all over the country.
Interact with the Supreme Council and civil society organizations in the process of preparing a package of"military" laws involved in the problems of national security conference, I met and spoke personally with almost the entire Russian political elite.
Originally scheduled for October 2007, the election was brought forward to break a deadlock between the parliament and the government over the number of electoral districts in the country. Currently, there are 25 constituencies nationwide, but reformers have long argued that a smaller number- each with a larger number of voters- would be less susceptible to manipulation by the political elite.
In the vibrant debates about how best to shift decision-making power from corporate shareholders and political elites to the broader public, there is a common starting point: that the road to real democracy depends on greater equality and active citizen engagement.[71] In other words, there can be no true form of economic democracy unless resources are more equally shared across society, and citizens have a more or less equal weight in shaping the direction of political life.
And it is not enough to remove these provisions from the negotiations because these trade agreements are inherently biased towards facilitating the business dealings of corporate and political elites.
That is, in Venezuela the losing side, which since Chavez's first election has always been the country's former political elite, has almost always denied that it was the loser.
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