have to agree with you mike. what would be really radical would not so much be a change of ideology per se but an honest implementation of the rhetoric of democracy - i.e. genuinely participatory democracy (read the znet bit on PARECON, participatory economics?). if we take distributive outcomes seriously and what a (genuine) commitment to human rights (in particular equality) means in relation to that then we have some fairly obvious problems that need to be addressed.

we need to recapture the language; need to return meaning to utterances!

e.g. rumsfeld today calling for death to north korea re the nuclear deal (sure you're all familiar with details). firstly the "crises" was manufactured by the US oil blockade (forcing the koreans to seek alternative power sources) and secondly rumsfeld (as a director of ABB engineering) sold NK the reactor parts in the first instance.

WHY IS THIS NOT REPORTED EVERYTIME THIS STORY IS MENTIONED???

lying piece of shit....