If you haven't read it yet, then you have missed one hell of an article
Robert Fisk: Bankers are the dictators of the West
The real comparison, needless to say, has been dodged by Western reporters, so keen to extol the anti-dictator rebellions of the Arabs, so anxious to ignore protests against "democratic" Western governments, so desperate to disparage these demonstrations, to suggest that they are merely picking up on the latest fad in the Arab world.
Comparing like with like
What drove the Arabs in their tens of thousands and then their millions on to the streets of Middle East capitals was a demand for dignity and a refusal to accept that the local family-ruled dictators actually owned their countries.
What they have really divined, however, albeit a bit late in the day, is that they have for decades bought into a fraudulent democracy: they dutifully vote for political parties – which then hand their democratic mandate and people's power to the banks
As to the threats we have heard in Europe from the credit ratings overlords:
The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw the very same ratings from European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the US
You get the gist, I hope I have stayed within fair use.
We saw a perfect example of the Banks power when David Cameron decided to politically and economically isolate Britain within Europe with such elan that he found he had no friends at all. The City of London bankers demanded, he obeyed, and he fulfilled their orders to the letter.
He could have made more friends and influenced people if he had highlighted the current EU trend of consolidating the elite and the trampling of democracy that is currently being planned. The original European idea was not one which is controlled by a centralized technocratic elite, but one of democratic union and co-operation. Instead he decided to protect the precious bankers.
The result in Europe is now the rules will be changed behind closed doors [even more so] and the people will have little say in the fait accompli, just as they have had with IMF/ECB/WB approved austerity.
Democracy has been usurped; it is long past time to take it back we all work for the general good and not for the oh so few, Indignez-vous.