Fertile ground for change amid the rot of the West's free-market democracy
Graeme Maxton says political mobsters have hijacked the dominant social and economic system
They drive big black cars and look out from behind darkened windows. The people inside are dangerous, watching everything, protected behind thick steel doors.
In Hollywood, the occupants of these cars are typically gangster bosses, those willing to act without conscience.
In the real world, they look increasingly like Western politicians, who are happy to do the same.
Like gangsters, many Western politicians have lost sight of right and wrong in the past 20 years. They have wielded great power and yet behaved as if they were unaccountable to no-one.
Governments they have judged unacceptable, those in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey and Iraq, have been undermined or toppled on their instructions. Others, such as that in Myanmar, have been used as political pawns.
There will be a resurgence in the debate we’ve had for millennia, but that has been missing of late
Suspected criminals have been assassinated by drones, or soldiers sent to kill them, without the evidence of their alleged misdeeds made public or brought before a civil court. Many of those captured have been tried in military courts, where the reasons for their detention are kept hidden.