Over the last year or two I've read a number of non-fiction books* on corruption, and the influence of the rich and powerful, in Africa, Italy, Britain and Russia. The more I read, the firmer my conviction grows that the rise to power of Trump in US and the Brexit 'win' in UK are a giant confidence trick. It's pitiful that people have been conned into believing that this so-called "populist uprising" makes a stand for the disadvantaged, the marginalised, the 'working people'. I believe that both of these results have been manipulated by the corrupt, rich, powerful elites in order to undermine liberal democratic structures which constrain their avarice. 29 March is a sad day for human rights and democracy.
* Suggested reading on the subject of the pursuit and maintaining of excessive wealth and power and its consequences:
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans
The Great Hunger - Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Who Owns Britain (The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership in the UK & Ireland) by Kevin Cahill
* Suggested reading on the subject of the pursuit and maintaining of excessive wealth and power and its consequences:
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
The State of Africa by Martin Meredith
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J Evans
The Great Hunger - Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Who Owns Britain (The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership in the UK & Ireland) by Kevin Cahill
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