<bq author="John Pilger" source="Antiwar.com" caption="Have a Nice World War, Folks" href="http://original.antiwar.com/pilger/2010/03/25/have-a-nice-world-war-folks">This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state with the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent.</bq>