Actor Jackie Chan calls U.S. ‘most corrupt’ country in the world

[Douglas Carpenter]

45. guns, dictators and drones are all legitimate criticisms of America ..but the corruption in the

third world is there and is ubiquitous and reaches from the lowest levels of society to the highest levels of society whether under pro-American governments or anti-American governments. In fact the anti-American governments are many times even worse. Societies that operate where the vast majority of people live with a very thin margin of survival and where there is no way for an honest cop, an honest school teacher or an honest bureaucrat to make a living are simply more rife with corruptions - whether right-wing pro-American corruptions or left-wing anti-American corruption. This is the level the vast majority of the world lives and there is no magic solution whether socialism or free markets are are going to fix it any time soon. Perhaps it can be fixed and perhaps conditions that breed corruption can be greatly reduced but there is no magic solution.

I will criticize American imperial policy to my dying day - but I will do so within the realms of reality knowing full well that the single strongest assert American imperialism has is that in most such cases the alternatives to American power are not pretty. There is no struggle between the big bad American imperialist and the peace and freedom loving little indigenous natives - the struggles are almost always between self-serving belligerents who are pursuing their own agenda for their own reasons and American imperial power frequently interferes for its own self-serving reasons and frequently makes matters worse.