10 Sep '09 21:37>2 edits
Originally posted by adam warlockWhy is it that you only focus on Wal Mart and the US and Israel and McDonald's (super size me!!) yet you don't take into consideration all that has come before them or other equally powerful corporations/governments?
[b]Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman? Wal-Mart, the most powerful corporation on earth, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too. Why do these corporations violate, with criminal impunity, international law? Is it because in this contemporary world of ours, work is valued as lower than trash and workers' rights are valued even less?
Who are ...[text shortened]... out missile-wielding arch-murderers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/galeano08132009.html[/b]
The fact of the matter is, the richer you get the richer you become. Also, the more power you accumulate the more power you will attain. History is full us such examples and is why I oppose statism which seems to be the movement at hand in the US.
So with this in mind, is it only a matter of human nature and not so much the individual countries or corporations at play. In short, it is simply more of the same. As for myself, I have railed against Big Brother and mini me, who are the big corporations. What boggles my mind, however, is that the left wailed against "W" for going to Iraq and Afghanistan but now that "W" is gone they have all drawn strangely silent. Now there is next to no news coverage when a group of soldiers die over there every day. Now there is no urgency to leave Iraq as there was previously.
In short, if you desire to see the powerful judged then I guess you will either have to take their power away, or what till the Almighty takes a swing at it. So the million dollar quesition is, are the labor unions powerful enough to take on these corporations? I guess we will have to wait and see.