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In the failed corporate coverage of Steven Donziger and Julian Assange there is an imposition of darkness, ignorance inflicted on Americans with intent.
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
Despite concern inside the U.S. about rising authoritarianism, Chas W. Freeman Jr says what we are really witnessing is the retreat of representative democracy, constitutionalism, secularism and a rule-bound international order.