Sirota: The Invisible Culture of Corruption -- Again

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http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/invisible_culture_corruption_again

Here is the New York Times editorial today predictably demanding Democrats pass the NAFTA expansion:

"A group of Democratic leaders from the Clinton administration and Congress recently sent a letter to Congressional Democrats pointing out that rejecting the trade agreements signed in Latin America 'would set back regional U.S. interests for a generation.'"

Once again, the Washington press corps is refusing to note - as I did in a recent column - that this "group of Democratic leaders" that signed this letter is actually a group of paid lobbyists whose clients will benefit from the trade pact they are advocating for. That's not mentioned by the media - instead the signatories are billed as disinterested statesmen.

This is the propaganda system at work - a system that is designed to make the culture of corruption on trade issues completely invisible to the naked eye.

[blm]

1. Wasn't it 'Clinton administration' officials who advised Dems to support Bush

on the Iraq war?

[antigop]

Hey, blm, you're back.... n/t

[bvar22]

6. John Edwards has said that

"Clinton Administration officials" were a major influence for his "Yes" vote on the IWR when he was a rookie Senator.

[brentspeak]

2. The New York Times and the Washington Post have become neoliberal DLC rags

[Joanne98]

3. They both support globalism or neo-liberal economic polices!

[Mr Rabble]

4. Have become?

I think this has been standard for 50+ years, if not forever.

We are just catching up; getting the news as it were.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. It's good that Sirota is calling them out on this

Corporate globalization/free trade has been a disaster for America's working class.

[bvar22]

7. "would set back regional U.S. interests for a generation.'"

If I were the CEO of a large multi-national corporation seeking slave labor, then YES, it would set back "my interests".

OR

If I were a member of a Banking Cartel like the IMF looking for a way to privatize a soverign country's natural resources, then this would set back my "regional interest".


Who ARE the powerful "Democratic leaders from the Clinton administration"?
It is time to NAME the fucking NAMES!!!!!!

My best guess?.....The DLC!


The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.