Democracy is an illusion! It’s become a political system fostered by the élite, for the élite, in order to fool the people that they have a stake in the system. In actual fact, they have virtually none. The whole political system in the modern era, despite having noble beginnings, is now used to benefit the few at the expense of the many. – Mark Alexander, June 29, 2018
Monday 28 May 2012
Germany Now Divided by an Economic Wall
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, some Germans saw the need to have money flowing from the west to the east. Now, however, resentment is growing in the western portion of Germany about the amount of money flowing into cities and towns in the former East Germany. Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Jena, in what was once East Germany.
