(27.5.2016) The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington‘s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts. Most of the presidents responsible have been liberal – Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.

The breathtaking record of perfidy is so mutated in the public mind, wrote the late Harold Pinter, that it „never happened …Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn‘t happening. It didn‘t matter. It was of no interest. It didn‘t matter… „. Pinter expressed a mock admiration for what he called „a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It‘s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.“