...so the esteblishment tells us with their special stories ....

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An important text, dealing with the political scandals of this imperialism is the speech, Harald Pinter gave 2005 on recieving the Nobel Prize in Literature ("Nobel Lecture"):

Art, Truth & Politics

" ...It's a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words 'the American people' provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don't need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties but it's very comfortable. This does not apply of course to the 40 million people living below the poverty line and the 2 million men and women imprisoned in the vast gulag of prisons, which extends across the US. ..."

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"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?"