Reply #12: Yes, it is more complicated

[Jack Rabbit]

However, you seem to have the cart before the horse. The media is independent (or, more correctly, those who own the media are independent). It's the government that isn't. The same people who own the media own the government. Bush is not the enemy; he is a stooge of the enemy.

I doubt that the real powers that be tell the government to assassinate this Prime Minister or that labor leader, but they don't mind, either. They want to make sure theat US power is used to promote their profits overseas and protect them from pesky people who might want to arrange their local economies to their benefit.