Poverty itself is a weapon of the powerful. Keep people too poor to fund political campaigns and you keep them powerless. Keep them too busy to research and they can't see through your propaganda. Keep them desperate and you can get them hating each other instead of hating you. They're not just robbing ordinary people so they can have more for themselves; the poverty itself actually benefits them. They would benefit from keeping you poor even if it gave them nothing else.

It is not a coincidence that the most crucial nation in the oligarchic empire, the US, has the highest level of this kind of weaponized poverty. There's a lot of power riding on what happens in America, so the powerful do everything they can to keep Americans under control.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Poverty Is A Weapon Of The Powerful

Sonation - Sonic adventures in downtempo, electronica, soundscapes, electro acoustic and intelligent dance music. Strange sounds, sweet songs...

DJ Some Bird - In love with the deep. Deep House. Deep Techno...

SONATION (Lucy Anna Rhoades) has a lifelong relationship with music as a dancer, fan, journalist, festival director, DJ and electronic music producer. A UK native she has been in Byron Shire Australia for the last ten years. Her current electronic productions mix deep house and techno with feminine geeky electronica and a touch of punk rock.

SONATION has also spun vinyl as DJ Some Bird - so called because she heard guys say 'There's some bird on the decks' so often ;)

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.