AZspot AZspot

blue bits. red rocks.
Monday 24 May 2010

What is happening in Greece, what will happen in Spain and Portugal, what is starting to happen here in states such as California, is the work of a global, white-collar criminal class. No government, including our own, will defy them. It is up to us. Barack Obama is simply the latest face that masks the corporate state. His administration serves corporate interests, not ours. Obama, like Goldman Sachs or Citibank, does not want the public to see how the Federal Reserve Bank acts as a private account and ATM machine for Wall Street at our expense. He, too, has helped orchestrate the largest transference of wealth upward in American history. He serves our imperial wars, refuses to restore civil liberties, and has not tamed our crippling deficits. His administration gutted regulatory agencies that permitted BP to turn the Gulf of Mexico into a toxic swamp. The refusal of Obama to intervene in a meaningful way to save the gulf’s ecosystem and curtail the abuses of the natural gas and oil corporations is not an accident. He knows where power lies. BP and its employees handed more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Chris Hedges

88 notes

  1. dismantledance reblogged this from azspot
  2. five5five reblogged this from vruz
  3. oh-ew reblogged this from littleorphanammo
  4. chrislikesstuff reblogged this from therecipe
  5. permanentsix reblogged this from littleorphanammo
  6. littleorphanammo reblogged this from jmek
  7. jmek reblogged this from commondense
  8. therecipe reblogged this from krona
  9. el-carnivora reblogged this from br3nduh
  10. br3nduh reblogged this from socialisimo
  11. politicore reblogged this from criticalculture
  12. chapel-eyes-odd reblogged this from resmc
  13. resmc reblogged this from criticalculture
  14. so-treu reblogged this from nezua
  15. nezua reblogged this from socialisimo
  16. resolute reblogged this from socialisimo
  17. comingonstrong reblogged this from criticalculture
  18. criticalculture reblogged this from azspot
  19. krona reblogged this from headphonesnotrequired

A GNT creation ©2007–2011