From the US vantage point, what is a “democracy”? In today’s Orwellian vocabulary, it means any country supporting US foreign policy. … The antonym to “democracy” is “terrorist.” That simply means a nation willing to fight to become independent from US neoliberal democracy.

-Michael Hudson, “America Escalates its ‘Democratic’ Oil War in the Near East,” Counterpunch, 6 January 2020

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