War, Budgets and Blind Ambition

CHRIS FLOYD
The Limited Minds of the American Elite
The American elite’s unbounded, unquestioned, indeed unconscious sense of imperial entitlement and dominance — based ultimately on war, the threat of war and the profit from war — is one of the defining characteristics of our age. And if you would like to see a glaring example of [...]

Democracy Inc.

Editorial, The Nation
The Citizens United campaign finance decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and a Supreme Court majority of conservative judicial activists is a dramatic assault on American democracy, overturning more than a century of precedent in order to give corporations the ultimate authority over elections and governing. This decision tips the balance against active [...]

Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies

Thom Hartmann -
Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class.
Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren’t making [...]

AIG-GATE: The World’s Greatest Insurance Heist – Ellen Brown

Each day brings more revelations of efforts of the NY Fed and Goldman Sachs to hide the details of the criminal conspiracy of the AIG bailout. . . . This is a real crisis on the scale of Watergate
Rumor has it that Timothy Geithner is on his way out as Treasury Secretary, due to his [...]

Time Is Running Out

Bob Herbert -
A failure to act boldly, he said, will result in the U.S. becoming “a cooked goose.”
We’ve now lost 8.4 million jobs in this recession, and a vast majority of them are gone for good. The politicians are clambering aboard the jobs bandwagon, belatedly, but very few are telling the truth about the structural [...]

‘Illusion,’ Corporatism and Inverted Totalitarianism

Chris Hedges -  Audio
“I’m not attacking culture, I’m attacking corporatism,”
In this interview with Vermont Public Radio’s Neal Charnoff, “Empire of Illusion” author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges emphasizes what makes his book’s argument different from that of the stereotypical elder who disapproves of emerging artistic and cultural forms: “I’m not attacking culture, I’m attacking corporatism,” [...]



FASCISM
should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a MERGER of
State and Corporate Power

- Benito Mussolini

"We the corporations" On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. _________________________________

MOVE to AMEND
a project of the CAMPAIGN TO LEGALIZE Democracy
Help end Corporate personhood




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