Will it be Trump or Goldman Sachs?
Snowden: US Presidential Campaign a Choice Between
Trump and Goldman Sachs
by Stephen Lendman
It’s largely a choice of
style, not substance, dirty business as usual continuing no matter who succeeds
Obama. Still, Snowden has a point.
Hillary Clinton, like
husband Bill, got super-rich through speechmaking, lucrative book deals and
other Big Money handouts.
Lots came from Wall Street
and other corporate supporters – a rogue’s gallery of crony capitalist
interests buying influence.
Her public financial
disclosures show she earned $2,935,000 from 12 speeches to Wall Street banks
alone from 2013 – 2015, five for $225,000 (her usual fee).
Deutsche Bank paid her
$485,000, Goldman Sachs an astonishing $675,000 for a single speech. Wall
Street banks are her leading campaign contributors.
Over the same period, her
financial disclosures show she earned $21,667,000 for 92 speeches to private
organizations, mainly crony capitalist interests – expecting handsome dividends
from their investments, the way dirty business in Washington works.
America’s political process
is too corrupted to fix, a Big Money-controlled one-party state with two wings.
All duopoly power candidates march to the same drummer – differing only in
style, not how they intend governing if elected.
Uninformed, out-of-touch US
voters are easy marks to be fooled each electoral cycle. Media scoundrels
promote the illusion of democracy, existing in name only.
Popular interests are
ignored, independent candidates entirely shut out. Names and faces change.
Dirty business as usual wins every time.
Scattered reforms won’t
work. Transformational change in needed. The only solution is popular
grassroots revolution.
The alternative is endless
wars, neo-serfdom and tyranny, a horror no one should tolerate.
Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and
contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW
III.”
Visit his blog site at
sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books areThe Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West
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