William Meecham wrote:
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> Can someone tell me why our rulers hate to see people in other countries
> be educated, have health care, have decent jobs.
> wcm

Because if they don't do it according to the template that US
imperial/corprate hegemons supplies it may look like there is indeed a
competitive alternative to the exploitation, injustice, and oppression
that resides at the putrid, coorupt heart of this system. US-style,
multi-national corporate-statist kapitalism is almost unique in the
history of culture in that, no matter the number and volume of the
paeans it spouts about the wonders of "competition," the system itself
is ineluctably driven toward monoploy, both within and without the
sustaining structures of the system itself. "Kapital" cannot tolerate
external threats to the mythologies upon which it depends for its
continued dominanace. US/transnational corporate/statist interests
cannot tolerate it that Cuba, for instance, or Nicaragua, or Guatemala,
or El Salvador, or Panama, of Grenada, or Mexico, or Chile (just to name
the victims of the last 25 years in this hemisphere) or anywhere else
should propose to go their own ways if, in succeeding, they would give
the lie to the claims of infallibility of markets and the sundry other
legends that the system of Kapital requires to persist.

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