Übergeek 바둑이: As in DeAtH.. no. Political suicide by the will of the people or their parties.. and some time removed (as happens) more will come out.

"Our leaders support fascists, dictators and despotic kings when it is politically and economically convenient."

I cannot dispute that.. I wouldn't try. Yet thankfully thanks to an invention by a UK national we can web it and/or it gets reported. So much has come out that regardless of the limitation of "remits" we can see around so much of the bull.

"Then we went to war, not to save Iraqi people, but to make sure our big oil companies made fat profits."

Not entirely true, as mentioned before I think Iraq was an easy victory for the American war machine, while Afghanistan is another Vietnam kinda combat. Blair truly thought Saddam was an evil person. Maybe a debt was thought after the uprising that was encouraged and then left about 250,000 Iraqi's in Saddam's hit list book.

And as you said.. oil.

Thankfully some people have come up with ways around that now to be archaic system of powering transport. Some guy in the UK for years has been for years making bio fuel at home from old chip fat.. nano batteries are just around the corner.

.. Give it time, we might even see the rise of the mighty eco companies in our lifetime