Topic: Bush Clears the Way for Corporate Domination
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Sat 01/10/09 09:49 PM
This article was from last year but never the less it's still interesting. I wonder how much of Bush's agenda will still be carried out under the new administration..

Bush Clears the Way for Corporate Domination
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 5, 2006
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When George W. Bush says that he wants to spread freedom to every corner of the earth, he means it.

But of course the president that turned Soviet-era gulags into secret CIA prisons in order to do God-knows-what to God-knows-whom isn't talking about individual freedom. He means corporate freedom -- freedom for the great multinationals to extract everything they can from the world's resources and labor without the hindrance of public interest laws, environmental regulations or worker protections.

Bush's vision of a free world actually looks just like the corporate globalization agenda pushed by a succession of American presidents in institutions like the World Trade Organization.

But this administration yearns for freedom too much to leave it up to trade negotiators. Unlike his predecessors, Bush isn't content to use carrots and sticks and a liberal dose of arm twisting to advance that agenda. His administration has made the neoliberal policies euphemistically referred to as "free-trade" a centerpiece of its national security policy.

Continued here: http://www.alternet.org/story/35846/