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The
role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified
markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control.
Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of
national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.
-- Jerry Mander
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"America:
Socializing the risks, Privatizing the profits, Putting business in the democracy,
Taking the democracy out of the business."
-- Christopher Masterjohn
The
corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory,
it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship,
and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.
-- George Monbiot
"Fascism
should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state
and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
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The essence
of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer,
environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and
investment.
-- Ralph
Nader |  |
In our country,
the large corporations are the dominant institution. They comprise the strongest,
consistent, generic power in the land. They share a high degree of coordinated
values. Their power is all the more remarkable in its resiliency and ability to
accommodate or absorb other challenging power centers such as big government and
organized labor in ways that turn an additional profit, erect an additional privilege,
or acquire protective mechanisms to ward off new pressures for change or reform."
-- Ralph Nader
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"We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it
seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility
for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his
society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson
from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over."
-- Liam Neeson |
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping
people for the globalization of the economy, we have
policies that are accelerating the most destructive
trends of the global economy.
-- Barack
Obama
This
is the moment when we must build on the wealth that
open markets have created, and share its benefits
more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our
growth and global development. But we will not be
able to sustain this growth if it favors the few,
and not the many.
-- Barack
Obama
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"Leave the old and dying
America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would
be demilitarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer
to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation
of the people, and mostly because it's now a matter of life and death, reassert
an ecological balance with the environment, which means thhe people in the oil
companies and the car companies and the space industry will have to be brought
into account, so there will be a new definition of government which has to be
closer to the people and less close to special interests which are far more harmful
that any revolutionaries.
-- Phil
Ochs |
"The
problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless,
competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward
and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to honesty, compassion,
fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in
need."
-- Michael Parenti
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Our
resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human
life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This
is about business.
-- Tim
Robbins |
"The liberty of a
democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a
point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its
essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or
by any other controlling private power. Among us today a concentration of private
power without equal in history is growing."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |  |
