Pentagon sides with Big Business

Pentagon sides with Big Business

"... it's OK if such power is held in private and unaccountable
hands (corporations), while it's not OK when it's held in hands
that are at least marginally accountable (government)"

Excellent point and excellently worded! But it's not actually
true that government power isn't responsible for "assaults
on liberty". Sure, that power is wielded in favour of and
on behalf of corporate interests, but the government "monopoly
of force" continues to be the primary instrument of oppression.

Global capital is able to bend multiple governments to its will
but this is only really possible because the WTO and IMF have
the guns of the worlds most powerful military establishments
right behind the threat of "trade sanctions". Essentially all
internationally important decisions right now are made by the
incumbents and lobbyists of the US and UK governments -- even
the other G8 members are increasingly marginalised.

It is therefore vital for the citizens of these two supposedly
democratic countries to make as much noise as possible and to
hold their governments to account, before more lives are lost
to the demands of the trusts and corporations to keep the poor
terrorised and hungry, and the merely wealthy scared and
compliant.