Foreign aid is another term for bribery

No. The usage of citations makes a person less credible, because it shows that he is either part of the establishment, a representative of the establishment, or someone who takes the establishment seriously. Most citations are from books, or internet articles, and in order to publish these, you must receive a significant amount of funding, which makes the author very likely to be corruptable, and or corrupted. The idea here is to think for yourself, and not let some article think for you. Sure you can quote the New York Times, or Washington Post, but what exactly makes the NY Times a credible source in the first place? If you write anything revolution on these newspapers, you will be fired immediately. Everything you write has to fall into the boundaries of the corporate elite. So why should the corporate elite be able to set the standards for me, or anyone else? I never blamed the western countries solely for the problem of corruption. They are part of the corruption, and the people taking the bribes are the other part of the problem. I never said that Starbucks is forcing people to buy their coffee. I said that if and when politicians like Lee Hsien Loong give concessions to corporations like Starbucks, it creates an atmosphere where people are wasting their money on Starbucks coffee rather than buying affordable local tea from local merchants. I never said anything about Lee taking freedom away from the people. However, if you bribe a politician to generate an artificially favourable market for some corporations and not others, then this is not a free market. Once bribes come into the equation, then it is no longer a free market, and the ones who offer the bribes obviously will be given preferential treatment in the specific market. Do you think a small tea shop will have the same kind of bribes to offer the government as compared to Starbucks, or McDonalds? There's a reason why the west is richer than the rest of the world, and this is because they play dirty. If they give you $1, you better be sure that they will expect $10 back in return. Let's not live in a fairy tale. There is no way, western corporations could survive in a real free market. It must be 100% rigged. That's why they had to crash the industries of China, and India, before they were able to take over the market with brute force, and aggression. This is also why the U.S. regime must keep 800 military bases world wide. The market can't be free when you have thousands of warheads pointed at everyone. I don't even know why I am debating shills, but I suppose the questions that I pose, and the points that I bring up can help normal people break out of the cage that you are trying to keep them in. I write in a simple way that can reach the masses. I don't use deceptive wording or terminology to confuse people like many of the online shills do. You may be more educated than I am, but education will also brain wash you to the point where you are no longer able to think for yourself, and you may find yourself reading from a script rather than creating ideas. Before you even respond to this, you may have to ask your commander on what to do next. I don't. I just say whatever comes to my mind. I don't need anyone's permission, and nothing is off limits for me to say. This isn't my job. I don't get paid to do this like you may be. This is where I may be in an advantaged situation by being less educated, because it's much easier for me to break free of the shackles and flee the plantation. And you know what? Looking back at history, it wasn't always the intellectuals who won the war. China, Cuba, Viet Nam, the USSR were all won by the common people against a much more educated, richer, and sophisticated adversary. Let me ask you this. Do you think that western regimes are just giving away foreign aid out of the kindness of their heart, and expect nothing back in return?