- 16 Feb 2019 17:10
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Libya's Human Development Index
image courtesy of tradingeconomics
Sanctions (and subsequent bombing campaigns) can teach a valuable lesson to workers and the non-rich in Western and allied societies. The societies that often are called on to bomb poorer countries.
When people in Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, and many other countries start re-organizing their societies in ways that redistribute resources to more of the local population, when they introduce social programs that increase their own human development index, when they use local resources to improve the lot or salvage the survival of the local 99% - corporations can't help but to sanction or bomb them. With no remorse.
Why? Because corporations (and this includes banks) can't tolerate any reduction in their own profits. They are profit-seeking entities. And that is all.
If the potential profits of a nation's labor are redistributed like they were in Libya (with its fabulous social programs, and best-in-Africa human development index pre NATO-destruction), and this lowers profit or profit-potential, then corporate entities are forced to conclude "these people must be destroyed. By sanctions or warfare, whatever is needed." They discretely remind everyone that:
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
So just imagine, at some future date, where war, debt, or environmental degradation force Americans (or the Spanish, or Dutch, or Canadians) to nationalize production of food or other commodities in order to help citizens survive a calamity.
What will corporations do then?
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
They will proceed to sabotage the economy and rob ordinary people of medicine and food, just like in Venezuela (or Libya, or Syria, or....). The local oligarchs will work with multinationals to make the economy (of the USA) scream. Just like ordinary Venezuelans (or Libyans, or Hondurans, or...), ordinary Americans will be holding their bellies with famine and denied basic health care and social services... in order to let corporations reclaim their profits.
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
Corporations can't act any other way. They were created as profit-driven Frankensteins of commerce.
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Libya's Human Development Index
image courtesy of tradingeconomics
Sanctions (and subsequent bombing campaigns) can teach a valuable lesson to workers and the non-rich in Western and allied societies. The societies that often are called on to bomb poorer countries.
When people in Venezuela, Iraq, Libya, and many other countries start re-organizing their societies in ways that redistribute resources to more of the local population, when they introduce social programs that increase their own human development index, when they use local resources to improve the lot or salvage the survival of the local 99% - corporations can't help but to sanction or bomb them. With no remorse.
Why? Because corporations (and this includes banks) can't tolerate any reduction in their own profits. They are profit-seeking entities. And that is all.
If the potential profits of a nation's labor are redistributed like they were in Libya (with its fabulous social programs, and best-in-Africa human development index pre NATO-destruction), and this lowers profit or profit-potential, then corporate entities are forced to conclude "these people must be destroyed. By sanctions or warfare, whatever is needed." They discretely remind everyone that:
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
So just imagine, at some future date, where war, debt, or environmental degradation force Americans (or the Spanish, or Dutch, or Canadians) to nationalize production of food or other commodities in order to help citizens survive a calamity.
What will corporations do then?
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
They will proceed to sabotage the economy and rob ordinary people of medicine and food, just like in Venezuela (or Libya, or Syria, or....). The local oligarchs will work with multinationals to make the economy (of the USA) scream. Just like ordinary Venezuelans (or Libyans, or Hondurans, or...), ordinary Americans will be holding their bellies with famine and denied basic health care and social services... in order to let corporations reclaim their profits.
"We will kill you if you touch our profits. We have no other empathy for anything other than profit."
Corporations can't act any other way. They were created as profit-driven Frankensteins of commerce.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
- By Rich
- By Unthinking Majority
- By Puffer Fish