Great songs, like One by U2, can have different meanings for different people. I have always thought that this song refers to Hugo Chavez, democratic President of Venezuela, often much maligned by western media since in the eyes of the USA, he's a damn commie. He is loved by his people and a great reformer, just about the only man in our world today to stand up to Big Oil, and to use oil revenues for the people, not the wealthy elite. If you were to read unbiased, true reports about him, you would be stunned.
The liars who believe their own dark medicine are obviously the neocons who were behind the Bush throne (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove et al.) and their supporters like Blair and his team of spin doctors who all drummed up the lies they fed us. Cheney always wanted a middle east country for his experiment in free market ideology (the dark medicine), even before they came to power in 2000. Hence the referral to 'not a dog... perform for you in the stadium': one of the first of these experimenters was Pinochet, brutal dictator of Chile and close friend of Thatcher, who was heard on his military radio calling the then democratic President Allende, 'the dog' as his tanks moved in to remove him from the palace in their coup, and who was infamous for torturing thousands of dissidents in football stadiums before they all 'disappeared'.
During the noughties, many of us woke up blind, just because we had bright dreams, and seeing all the despair in the world brought our hopes to nothing as the wrong ones were in power. 9/11 was NOT some conspiracy but it was the perfect moment to get support for an invasion of Iraq, as long as they could make the lies stick for just long enough to get troops in there, and then tear down the civil service and introduce a true free market (which resulted in a country raped and plundered and no good result). The only part they never managed to really free up was the oil - THAT would have launched World War III. Back then, Chavez was just about the best we had, a real man and leader, committed to hope and peace. Let us hope it was just a bad phase (though the ultra-rich still need to have their dreams shattered. Let us at least try).
Great songs, like One by U2, can have different meanings for different people. I have always thought that this song refers to Hugo Chavez, democratic President of Venezuela, often much maligned by western media since in the eyes of the USA, he's a damn commie. He is loved by his people and a great reformer, just about the only man in our world today to stand up to Big Oil, and to use oil revenues for the people, not the wealthy elite. If you were to read unbiased, true reports about him, you would be stunned.
The liars who believe their own dark medicine are obviously the neocons who were behind the Bush throne (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove et al.) and their supporters like Blair and his team of spin doctors who all drummed up the lies they fed us. Cheney always wanted a middle east country for his experiment in free market ideology (the dark medicine), even before they came to power in 2000. Hence the referral to 'not a dog... perform for you in the stadium': one of the first of these experimenters was Pinochet, brutal dictator of Chile and close friend of Thatcher, who was heard on his military radio calling the then democratic President Allende, 'the dog' as his tanks moved in to remove him from the palace in their coup, and who was infamous for torturing thousands of dissidents in football stadiums before they all 'disappeared'.
During the noughties, many of us woke up blind, just because we had bright dreams, and seeing all the despair in the world brought our hopes to nothing as the wrong ones were in power. 9/11 was NOT some conspiracy but it was the perfect moment to get support for an invasion of Iraq, as long as they could make the lies stick for just long enough to get troops in there, and then tear down the civil service and introduce a true free market (which resulted in a country raped and plundered and no good result). The only part they never managed to really free up was the oil - THAT would have launched World War III. Back then, Chavez was just about the best we had, a real man and leader, committed to hope and peace. Let us hope it was just a bad phase (though the ultra-rich still need to have their dreams shattered. Let us at least try).
Just my humble opinion :-)