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Autor: Václav Viták | 04.05.2011
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When did our democracy die?
When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater?
When did the dead hand of the corporate state become unassailable?
The body politic was mortally wounded during the long, slow strangulation of ideas and priorities during the Red Scare and the Cold War. Its bastard child, the war on terror, inherited the iconography and language of permanent war and fear.
The battle against internal and external enemies became the excuse to funnel trillions in taxpayer funds and government resources to the war industry, curtail civil liberties and abandon social welfare.
Skeptics, critics and dissenters were ridiculed and ignored.
The FBI, Homeland Security and the CIA enforced ideological conformity.
Debate over the expansion of empire became taboo.
Secrecy, the anointing of specialized elites to run our affairs and the steady intrusion of the state into the private lives of citizens conditioned us to totalitarian practices.
Corporate capitalism—because it was trumpeted throughout the Cold War as a bulwark against communism—expanded with fewer and fewer government regulations and legal impediments.
Capitalism was seen as an unalloyed good.
It was not required to be socially responsible.
Any impediment to its growth, whether in the form of trust-busting, union activity or regulation, was condemned as a step toward socialism and capitulation.
Every corporation is a despotic fiefdom, a mini-dictatorship.
And by the end Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs had grafted their totalitarian structures onto the state.
The Cold War also bequeathed to us the species of the neoliberal.
The neoliberal enthusiastically embraces "national security" as the highest good.
The neoliberal—composed of the gullible and cynical careerists—parrots back the mantra of endless war and corporate capitalism as an inevitable form of human progress.
Globalization, the neoliberal assures us, is the route to a worldwide utopia.
Empire and war are vehicles for lofty human values.
Greg Mortenson, the disgraced author of "Three Cups of Tea," tapped into this formula.
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents in Iraq or Afghanistan are ignored or dismissed as the cost of progress.
We are bringing democracy to Iraq, liberating and educating the women of Afghanistan, defying the evil clerics in Iran, ridding the world of terrorists and protecting Israel.
Those who oppose us do not have legitimate grievances.
They need to be educated.
Bush and Barack Obama—although the heads of state or elected officials in Congress have become largely irrelevant.
Lobbyists write the bills.
Lobbyists get them passed.
Lobbyists make sure you get the money to be elected.
And lobbyists employ you when you get out of office.
Those who hold actual power are the tiny elite who manage the corporations.
The massive redistribution of wealth, as Hacker and Pierson write, happened because lawmakers and public officials were, in essence, hired to permit it to happen.
The rhetoric of the Democratic Party and the neoliberals sustains the illusion of participatory democracy.
The systems of information, owned or dominated by corporations, keep the public entranced with celebrity meltdowns, gossip, trivia and entertainment.
It is not that the public does not want a good health care system, programs that provide employment, quality public education or an end to Wall Street's looting of the U.S.Treasury. Most polls suggest Americans do.
But it has become impossible for most citizens to find out what is happening in the centers of power.
Television news celebrities dutifully present two opposing sides to every issue, although each side is usually lying.
The viewer can believe whatever he or she wants to believe.
Nothing is actually or explained.
And once the television lights are turned off, the politicians go back to the business of serving business.
We live in a fragmented society.
We are ignorant of what is being done to us.
We are diverted by the absurd and political theater.
We are afraid of terrorism, of losing our job and of carrying out acts of dissent.
We are politically demobilized and paralyzed.
We do not question the state religion of patriotic virtue, the war on terror or the military and security state.
We are herded like sheep through airports by Homeland Security and, once we get through the metal detectors and body scanners, spontaneously applaud our men and women in uniform.
As we become more insecure and afraid, we become more anxious.
We are driven by fiercer and fiercer competition.
We yearn for stability and protection.
This is the genius of all systems of totalitarianism.
Human history, rather than a chronicle of freedom and democracy, is characterized by ruthless domination.
Our elites have done what all elites do.
They have found sophisticated mechanisms to thwart popular aspirations, disenfranchise the working and increasingly the middle class, keep us passive and make us serve their interests.
The brief democratic opening in our society in the early 20th century, made possible by radical movements, unions and a vigorous press, has again been shut tight.
We were mesmerized by political charades, cheap consumerism and virtual hallucinations as we were ruthlessly stripped of power.
The game is over. We lost.
The corporate state will continue its inexorable advance until two-thirds of the nation is locked into a desperate, permanent underclass.
These elites do not have a vision. They know only one word—more.
They will continue to exploit the nation, the global economy and the ecosystem.
And they will use their money to hide in gated compounds when it all implodes.
Do not expect them to take care of us when it starts to unravel.
We will have to take care of ourselves.
It will be up to us to keep alive the intellectual, moral and culture values the corporate state has attempted to snuff out.
It is either that or become drones and serfs in a global, corporate dystopia.
It is not much of a choice.
But at least we still have one.
Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com.
Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.
His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle."
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Libya to get the NATO standard of human rights now « Mein Parteibuch ZweitblogWhen dealing with prisoners, the U.S. and its lackeys set long-lasting standards on human rights, too: torture like in Abu Ghraib
Now Libya is going to get human rights in accordance with NATO standards.

All of The popular uprisings that swept through the Arab world have been preplanned and officially launched on facebook pages weeks in advance.
What was worrying Tel Aviv is the fact that, so far, all Arab uprisings have been kicked off on facebook pages. So, under the boiling situation in the Arab world this facebook call couldn’t be underrated nor neglected.
With the unbelievably growing traffic to the facebook page and the spread of the call for a third intifada Israel couldn’t just stand watching underneath its big sign that reads “The only democracy in the Middle East”
So Israel, with its Zionist lobbies and pro-Israel campaigns began to pull some strings and show some muscles and it did not take long before Mr. Mark Zuckerberg came to his senses and reevaluated the page as inciting violence against Israel.
And to make sure this will always be a lesson, learned the hard way, less than a week after facebook removed the intifada page; Zuckerberg was hit by a law suit seeking more than $ 1 billion in damages, for doing too little too late
Arabs will never accept Israel as a neighbor state as long as Palestine is being systematically wiped off the map by the Zionist military dictatorship.
Israel could intimidate facebook but not the millions of awakening Arabs.
If facebook to block any page or any account that speaks unfavorably of Israel that will mean that Mr. Zuckerberg is going to sacrifice the hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims who are already using facebook worldwide.
Could facebook, contrary to its previous boosting role to the Arab uprisings, save the Israeli domino piece from falling?
That is yet to be seen.
| US Intervention In Syria By Stephen Lendman
Apr 30, 2011 - www.countercurrents.org |
In other words, "constructive chaos" would be used to redraw the region according to US-Israeli "geo-strategic needs and objectives." The strategy is currently playing out violently in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, and may erupt anywhere in the region to solidify Washington's aim for unchallengeable dominance from Morocco to Oman to Syria.
The most predictable disaster in history… TITANIC-1-896x1024 – Project World Awareness


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| Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig Apr 25, 2011 - www.truthdig.com |
Those tax breaks over the past decade, leaving some corporations such as General Electric to pay no taxes at all, were supposed to lead to job creation, but just the opposite has occurred.
As the WSJ put it, the multinational companies “cut their work forces in the U.S. by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million, new data from the U.S.

"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes," billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley famously (and allegedly) sniffed.
She wasn't entirely correct: The superrich do still pay taxess. The wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers pay 32 percent of all income tax collected by the federal government.
But the superrich don't pay as much as they used to—and thanks to a combination of tax cuts and preferential tax policies, their tax obligations can be less demanding than the so-called little people's.
In fact, the very wealthiest Americans' tax burden has been steadily dropping for years, even as they've enjoyed astounding income growth not seen by the vast majority of Americans.
GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back | The NationAmerica has a revenue problem because of a two-tier taxation system that steals from the poor and offers corporate welfare to the rich.
While tax evasion has always been an American business tradition, the practice has now reached frenzied proportions where the government is no longer simply turning a blind eye to the practice but actively facilitating it.

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"Millions of people have been misled regarding the causes and consequences of September 11.
The 9/11 Commission Report destroys the historical record of US covert support to international terrorism, while creating the illusion that America and "Western Civilization" are threatened.
-Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism", Global Research
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| Apr 24, 2011 - thinkprogress.org |
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning finds that 44 percent, a plurality, of Americans think the economy is getting worse, rather than staying the same or getting better.
With unemployment hovering around 9.6 percent while economic inequality is at levels not seen since the Depression, many Americans feel as if the economy is leaving them behind.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that Corporate America certainly isn’t doing its part to help bring America out of its economic malaise.
The paper surveyed employment data by some of the nation’s largest corporations — General Electric, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Cisco, Intel, Stanley Works, Merck, United Technologies, and Oracle — and found that they cut their workforces by 2.9 million people over the last decade while hiring 2.4 million people overseas.
As you can see from the chart, the economic recession has had little impact on Corporate America’s patriotism.
top reason for companies to outsource was to “reduce operating costs”
This means companies are outsourcing to save themselves money, not make better products.
Unfortunately, for some of these companies, sending American jobs overseas isn’t enough.
They also want to bring the profits back into the United States with as little tax liability as possible.

The world economic depression is a dire threat to the national security of the United States.
To date, little or nothing has been done to address the causes of the depression and rebuild the economy.
With the lack of leadership and vision in the western world, the depression will continue until the Anglo-American economic system known as theWashington Consensus self-destructs.
This is occurring rapidly, and the Beijing Consensus is being asserted to replace it.
At some point during this process the center of world politics, economics and military powerwill shift to North East Asia
This shift will not happen peacefully,and system wide warfare is the likely outcome if this breakdown crisisis allowed to run its course.
New alliance poised to emerge from the rubble of America's collapsed empire ...
The alliance of Brazil, Russia, India,China, and South Africa, also known as BRICS, has been watching the death throes of the American empire and is reacting by creating the groundwork for a post-American global construct.
In the coming brave, new world, the US shall be diminished and a new order shall dawn.
