We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It [View all]

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_must_understand_corporate_power_to_fight_it_20160612

By Chris Hedges

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The promises made by the corporate state and its political leaders—we will restore your jobs, we will protect your privacy and civil liberties, we will rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, we will save the environment, we will prevent you from being exploited by banks and predatory corporations, we will make you safe, we will provide a future for your children—are the opposite of reality.

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“The Germans were quite courteous when they led people to be slaughtered,” Lubetkin noted acidly.

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Our corporate masters know what is coming. They know that as the ecosystem breaks down, as financial dislocations create new global financial meltdowns, as natural resources are poisoned or exhausted, despair will give way to panic and rage.

They know coastal cities will be covered by rising sea levels, crop yields will plummet, soaring temperatures will make whole parts of the globe uninhabitable, the oceans will become dead zones, hundreds of millions of refugees will flee in desperation, and complex structures of governance and organization will break down.

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/we_must_understand_corporate_power_to_fight_it_20160612

Well worth a thoughtful read.