CORPORATOCRACY IN ACTION: REPORT ON PRIVATE CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ

Here's the URL for Matt Taibbi's piece for Rolling Stone on how private contractors colluded with the Bush-led corporatocracy to steal billions from the US Treasury: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle


MORE CORPORATOCRACY IN ACTION: MONBIOT SHOWS HOW CORPORATIONS MANIPULATE THROUGH THINK TANKS

Here's the URL for George Monbiot's piece reprinted by Truthout showing how corporations channel money through charitable trusts that then manipulate public opinion in ways that favor the corporatocracy: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083007H.shtml

Corporatocracy and the North American Competitiveness Council

Brenda Norrell has written an excellent article, "Bush's House of Snakes" in today's Counterpunch , in which she discusses Bush administration goals to unite Canada, Mexico, and America in promoting the interests of corporations while restricting the freedoms of citizens. The corporations, acting through Bush's North American Competitivenss Council, are being opposed by Indigenous Peoples. Here are the comments I offered in support of Norrell's article.


I support your awareness of the distinction between corporations and citizens made by the U.S. government. Many people do not realize that America is no longer a democracy. It is a corporatocracy. The USA has been the target of a successful, covert, hostile take-over by the corporatocracy and the nation now exists of, by, and for the entities that comprise the corporatocracy.

The corporatocracy consists of Big Military, Big Energy, Big Finance, Big Media, Big Politics (both republican and democratic parties), Big Religion, Big Government (all the bureaucracies at local, county, state, and federal levels), Big Ag, Big Pharm, and Big Government (all three branches of government). Citizens elected Al Gore in 2000, but the corporatocracy voided the election and installed its own CEO (Bush) and COO (Cheney).

Business enterprise has become the state religion of America. Everything is commodified, most egregiously the trading in pollution credits. All decisions at all levels of society are rendered in economic terms. How will global warming affect the economy? Democrats and Republicans and liberals all worship the state religion. This is why none of the candidates can be trusted. They make speeches praising values of democracy and then vote the state religion, as evidenced by a Democrat-controlled Congress giving Bush almost $500 billion for defense. The war in Iraq is a religious war between Islam and Business Enterprise, not between Islam and Christianity.

I favor a return to the language of the Declaration of Independence. The purpose of the nation is "Life, LIberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." The goals of the Declaration are antithetical to the goals of the corporatocracy and of Business Enterprise. Commerce should serve Life, it should serve Liberty, and it should promote the Pursuit of Happiness. In fact it is the other way around, and Americans have given their lives and their liberties and surrendered all possibility of true happiness to commerce.

These are the messages our nation needs to hear. If we frame our argument in these terms, we address the true problems, not the false issues the corporatocracy uses to distract us.

For a return to the Declaration,