GLOBALIZATION
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The
role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures,
and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore,
to make them easier for global corporations to control.
Global corporations are even now trying to commodify
all remaining aspects of national cultures, not
to mention indigenous cultures.
-- Jerry Mander
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"America:
Socializing the risks, Privatizing the profits, Putting
business in the democracy, Taking the democracy out
of the business."
-- Christopher Masterjohn
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corporations are powerful only because we have allowed
them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate
the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship,
and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize
the reins of government.
-- George Monbiot
"Fascism
should more appropriately be called corporatism because
it is a merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
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The
essence of globalization is a subordination of human
rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental
rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of
global trade and investment.
-- Ralph Nader
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In
our country, the large corporations are the dominant
institution. They comprise the strongest, consistent,
generic power in the land. They share a high degree
of coordinated values. Their power is all the more remarkable
in its resiliency and ability to accommodate or absorb
other challenging power centers such as big government
and organized labor in ways that turn an additional
profit, erect an additional privilege, or acquire protective
mechanisms to ward off new pressures for change or reform."
-- Ralph Nader
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"We live in such a corporate world where
everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me.
Therefore I like stories where the individual
takes responsibility for BEING the individual,
and not just for himself, but for his comrades,
his society and ultimately for his country.
Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that
and not be browbeaten by the corporate world
which is taking over."
-- Liam Neeson
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping
people for the globalization of the economy, we
have policies that are accelerating the most destructive
trends of the global economy.
-- Barack Obama
This
is the moment when we must build on the wealth
that open markets have created, and share its
benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone
of our growth and global development. But we will
not be able to sustain this growth if it favors
the few, and not the many.
-- Barack Obama
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"Leave the old and dying America and use your
creative energies to help form a new America,
which would be demilitarized, more humanistic,
where the police are less hostile and closer to
the community, where the wealthy are not given
unleashed power for the exploitation of the people,
and mostly because it's now a matter of life and
death, reassert an ecological balance with the
environment, which means thhe people in the oil
companies and the car companies and the space
industry will have to be brought into account,
so there will be a new definition of government
which has to be closer to the people and less
close to special interests which are far more
harmful that any revolutionaries.
-- Phil Ochs
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"The
problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the
worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving,
opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward
and often much punishment--or at least much handicap--to
honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work,
love of justice, and a concern for those in need."
-- Michael Parenti
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Our
resistance to this war should be our resistance
to profit at the cost of human life. Because that
is what these drums beating over Iraq are really
about. This is about business.
-- Tim Robbins
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"The
liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people
tolerate the growth of private power to a point
where it becomes stronger than their democratic
state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -
ownership of government by an individual, by a group,
or by any other controlling private power. Among
us today a concentration of private power without
equal in history is growing."
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