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Can’t argue too much with this article. It really provided a clear framework for understanding the evolution towards the concept of “corporate personhood”. For too long corporations have been trying to extend the Constitutionally-protected rights of individuals onto their own corporate entities. With recent U.S Supreme Court rulings that allow corporations unprecedented influence in U.S elections, the principles that defined American government are slowly being lost. Of course Obama, desperate for any semblance of legitimacy, is quick to renounce the decision as if his position offers him no leverage to alleviate the situation in any way. Corporations, syndicates, cartels–whatever they are called, have demonstrated significant control over the functioning of the American government for decades and now they are on the cusp of a takeover. Sounds serious, huh?
Vi Ransel: Cold Case Democracy and the Doctrine of “Corporate Personhood” (part II)
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“The World Island”…what it’s all about
Eight months into the Obama Presidency the outlines of Administration foreign policy are becoming very clear and what is emerging is a foreign policy establishment flying blind on automatic pilot, evidently unable to make the fundamental policy changes required of its new geopolitical and economic position in the world since the collapse of the Greenspan “revolution in finance” September 2008. For the first time since it emerged as the world’s dominant power after 1945 the US policy establishment is unable to combine its military “stick” with any economic “carrot.” The Obama effort marks the end of an era of geopolitics. Latest reports that Obama has decided to cancel US plans for an anti-nuclear missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic suggest that a major internal battle is underway among US policy elites over what has clearly been a failed US foreign policy strategy.
Nowhere has the deficit in creative new strategic thinking been evident than in Washington policy towards the three pivot powers of the Eurasian continent—China, Russia and Iran. The recent calculated affront to Russia by Vice President Joe Biden was typical of the impotence of recent US foreign policy to regain American advantage across the strategic expanse of Eurasia—the undisputed “key” to world hegemony.
White the Obama Administration has made big fanfare about a so-called “reset” of US-Russian relations, it is clear the reset intended is back to the disastrous (for Russia) Yeltsin era of chaos and collapse of Russian state power in the early 1990’s. What is ignored are the clear strategic-based reasons for the dramatic deterioration in US-Russian relations—Washington and Washington-led NATO have posed an existential challenge to the very survival of Russia as a nation by Washington’s series of power coups or “color revolutions,” most clearly the 2003-2004 revolutions in Ukraine and in Georgia which placed pro-NATO de facto puppet regimes in power on Moscow’s most strategic periphery….Read full story
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Check out the latest episode on the podcast site. Enjoy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: georgia, japan, NATO, putin, random, russia
Here are some random articles for this week. I will be discussing them on my radio show.
To hear the show go to the “Duty Now For The Future Podcast”
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Vladimir Putin signals plan to reclaim old job as Russian president
The Guardian
Black Sea Port is Flash Point for Georgia and Russia
NY Times
Confronting Russia? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus
Global Research.ca
U.S will not “prejudge” leadership in Japan: Pentagon
Space War
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