Bush Clears The Way For Corporate Domination

[Hissyspit]

http://www.alternet.org/story/35846/

Bush Clears the Way for Corporate Domination
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on May 5, 2006, Printed on May 5, 2006

When George W. Bush says that he wants to spread freedom to every corner of the earth, he means it.

But of course the president that turned Soviet-era gulags into secret CIA prisons in order to do God-knows-what to God-knows-whom isn't talking about individual freedom. He means corporate freedom -- freedom for the great multinationals to extract everything they can from the world's resources and labor without the hindrance of public interest laws, environmental regulations or worker protections.

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Bush is willing to use the awesome force of the United States military to guarantee the freedom of the world's largest multinationals.

In her new book, The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz peels the veils away from Bush's agenda -- imperialism, militarism and corporate globalization -- and exposes who drives it: a group of hawkish ideologues with an unprecedented relationship to major defense and energy companies.

Antonia Juhasz: The Bush administration has implemented a particularly radical model of corporate globalization by which it has teamed overt military might -- full-scale invasion -- with the advancement of its corporate globalization agenda. And this model is particularly imperial -- that's one of the things that makes it different from, for example, the Reagan or Bush Sr. regimes. As opposed to simply replacing the head of a regime that is no longer serving the interests of the administration, the Bush team has gone further -- using a military invasion to fundamentally transform a country's political and economic structure.

It is also using an occupation to maintain that altered structure, which is the definition of imperialism in my mind: spreading the empire by changing the very laws of foreign nations to service the empire's needs. And, as Bush is repeatedly saying, "Iraq is only the beginning." I detail the rest of the empire's pursuits across the Middle East in the chapter on the U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area.

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[robbedvoter]

1. Sums up what he's been all about, doesn't it?

[Grateful for Hope]

2. This comes as no surprise

An excellent summary.

[Hissyspit]

3. Yes, looks like a good book... n/t

[OneBlueSky]

4. Corporate Domination has been a fact of life for some time now . . .

in this country, it became complete when corporations took over the voting (and vote counting) process and froze we, the people, out . . . they've constructed a closed loop that pretty much guarantees their continues dominance -- unless we, the people, do something and pull the plug on their little dynasty . . .