Who to believe

Are we entering a phase where any 'criticism of the West' is being shut down with claim and counter claim, that the issues raised are the fiction of our old enemy Russia. 

There are calls to close down the Russian broadcaster RT on the basis that it is spreading propaganda. There is the suggestions  that Wikileaks has become a tool for the Russians to interfere with the so called democratic process (sic) going on in the United States at the moment. There are stronger moves being made to freeze out Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he is holed up, by cutting off the Internet link to the Embassy.

Little light is shone on the so called missing emails from Hillary Clintons private phone account. How important was the content of these emails  vis a vis the revelations of the locker room talk by Donald Trump. Why is there virtually no investigatory attempt by the American media to find out.

If you follow the paper trail regarding these emails you find obfuscation, blocking and a delaying process aimed at the highest offices in the land, the Courts and the Congressional Committees, as orders to release the emails are made through the court. In dribs and drabs they come. Suddenly 32000 have been deleted (!) by Mrs Clinton, emails sent whilst occupying the second highest position in government. 

In comparison to "locker room talk" this is serious stuff but the media are fixated on Trump and few inches of investigative copy get written.

The power of that inner sanctum, the insiders who really run the show across the pond make the European Commission look totally transparent.

I think the power and the influence the United States has occupied has inculcated in their psycho a sense of their special position, where the rules for others are suspended for a messianistic sense of their own destiny, to be in charge no matter how, no matter why.  I'm sure we Brits had the same delusion of grandeur and purpose when Empire was in full throw so we should recognise the dangers of believing our own story.