"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T & T and DuPont..." [View all]

[AZ Progressive]

"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T & T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today."

"We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale! It has been since man crawled out of the slime."


Anyone here believe that thats how most powerful people in business and politics believe? Especially with things like the Trans Pacific Partnership being negotiated, and the constant bending over backwards for big corporations in Washington, and the worship of free trade by Washington despite how it harms America and other nations? Even if it isn't yet, that's certainly an intention of the big corporations, to get more power than governments. This kind of thinking, along with the global scope of many corporations nowadays would explain why "American" big corporations don't give a shit about the health and wellbeing of the United States and its people.