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January's Lowdown
Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how
We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.
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Fighting global corporate rule
Excuse me, but who the hell elected the WTO to write the laws of the USA?
In August, the autocratic World Trade Organization issued an imperial decree from Geneva striking down another U.S. law. The law in question provides a multibillion-dollar annual tax subsidy for a handful of major U.S. corporations, with GE, Boeing, Cisco, Motorola, Honeywell, and Caterpillar being the big beneficiaries.
It happens be a stupid law—these companies neither need the subsidy nor deserve it. However, it is our stupid law, and it falls within our sovereign realm to choose to get rid of it.
But our president didn’t issue a peep of protest when the WTO, acting on behalf of European corporations, so blatantly usurped America’s lawmaking authority. Instead, his administration meekly waved the white hankie of surrender, rushing out with a statement of appeasement that promised: “The executive branch will work with Congress to fully comply with our WTO obligations.”
This isn’t the first law that this unelected, un-American outfit has overruled, yet the politicians kowtow, the corporate media practically ignores it . . . and our sovereignty is surrendered to global corporate rule.
To help cut the cords of this entangling foreign alliance, call Citizens Trade Campaign: 202-546-4996.