The capitalist network that runs the world

[Peter1010]

The new scientist as an article about networking between corporations called

"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world"

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... world.html

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

So who is really in charge the government or the corporations?

[Ludwig]

So who is really in charge the government or the corporations?

Corporations - closely allied with the military - have been running the USA since WW2.

From Eisenhower's farewell address 1961:

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

OK, he was talking particularly about defence, but the point he was making was prescient: that forces were at work behind the scenes that wanted to make government their puppet. Which they did - I'm not an expert but I reckon the process was completed by Reagan's taking office in 1980. Since then, Democrat Presidents have blown a lot of hot air but basically, like the Republicans, acted as the corporations' and the military's bitches.

[biffvernon]

Moonbat takes a hefty swipe at the 1%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ns-no-caps

[DominicJ]

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spe ... mcn_10t30t

The Healthcare Industrial Complex is the only one I'm seeing with "undue influence"...

Barely a week goes by without a doctor on the radio demanding a new law is passed to control us, minimum prices for alcohol, no smoking in cars, "fat taxes". And those laws get passed.
I dont ever remember a general on the radio demanding anything, and their budget is a third of its peak.

[Ludwig]

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spe ... mcn_10t30t

The Healthcare Industrial Complex is the only one I'm seeing with "undue influence"...

Who trusts official US government figures? There are all sorts of tricks they do to fiddle the numbers, many of them detailed in "The Shock Doctrine". There is also a lot of money that has simply disappeared into a black hole and no one seems to know where it is.

[emordnilap]

Moonbat takes a hefty swipe at the 1%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ns-no-caps

Fecking brilliant. What he's good at, with hardly a wasted word.

[RenewableCandy]

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spe ... mcn_10t30t

The Healthcare Industrial Complex is the only one I'm seeing with "undue influence"...

When it comes to putting Fluorides in the water, I totally agree Dom.