By imagining the Corporate Police State primarily as a historical, fictional or foreign monster, these snapshots encourage us to believe that this monster poses no threat to us in the here and now. They encourage us, in other words, to ignore the monster's creeping advances in present-day America. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The article contains an incisive account of what constitutes a police state and cautions that its constituent parts may not be readily recognizable until one has a problem with the state. Dubai, Singapore and Monaco are accurately described as enclaves of the rich. attractive to the outsider perhaps, but with "almost no civil liberties" and "lots of heavily armed cops".
The article contains a lot of evidence to show that those who have been looking to the left and denouncing "big government" should, instead, be looking over their right shoulder, the most notable exception being government mandated health insurance.
as a military official boasted to the Journal: “If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks.” More »
“Corporate Police State,” it’s a fraught — some might even say, overwrought - term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the ... More »
using examples of the corporate world using the power of our government to maintain, even increase its wealth and breadth, the writer makes the case for the increased strength of this union. the weakness here is not enough information or emphasis on how this effects or will continue to effect all of us, or what needs to happen to change it's course.
This is great reading for fun, he cites interesting stories. It reads more like opinion than news however.
Freedoms denied to others eventually seep into your own living space. The corporatocracy has been trashing the environment and civil liberties in any country around the world that has resources that America wants. She has supported mafias of the worst kind. Now they are using the same systems against the citizens of America. Surprise surprise. Read John Perkin's "Hoodwinked" Obama is the first president that is supporting a liberation movement (in Libia) This is ... More »
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