Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Corporations and corporatism...

From the inbox:

According to the right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court, these creatures are as much citizens as those of us who breathe and bleed.

"Corporate Profits 'Near-Historic' In Second Quarter, Thanks To Cost-Cutting." By William Alden, October 4, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/corporate-profits_n_748889.html

"After Bailout, Business Groups Now Turning On Former Allies." By KEVIN FREKING, October 4, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/04/after-bailout-business-gr_n_748890.html

Corporatism and capitalism are NOT the same thing:

"Corporatism: The Cyborg Amongst Us." By by Aetius Romulous, October 04, 2010
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26517.htm

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Since Citizens United, vast sums of money are going into political ads for Republicans, but the Astroturf organizations spending it can keep the donors secret.

"Interest-group spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret." By T.W. Farnam and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, October 4, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/03/AR2010100303664.html

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Great -- corporations can contract with private armies. This should make the people of the world feel safe. (Actually, we've been there before, when corporations used hired thugs to kill striking workers and union organizers back when unions were being born in this country.)

"Blackwater's Black Ops." By Jeremy Scahill, September 15, 2010
http://www.thenation.com/article/154739/blackwaters-black-ops

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