The Inner Circle, The Politics of Truth And The Seduction of Power | Global Research
All centres of power – Office of the President, Prime Minister, Heads of International Organisations, financial institutions, the military etc. are invariably subject to the “politics of truth”.
Speaking truth to power is often a hazardous task. Truth when disclosed often injures one or more vested interests. And this is one of the reasons why truth always has a hard time getting through.
The members of the inner circle wield enormous influence and would do almost anything to project that they are indispensable to the holder of power and cut down anyone that poses an existential threat.
The most vicious are not the outsiders trying to get in as often perceived by those not within the corridors of power but rather the members of the inner core themselves.
Those who have worked at the highest levels of the Executive Branch and survived would exhibit deep wounds and scars, and recount with gusto in their memoirs.
