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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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BEYOND BP: MESSAGE TO BOSS
"Tony Two-step" is too much, isn't he? Tony Hayward, I mean, the slick CEO of BP who keeps trying to two-step his way around the public's fury over the oily mess he and other top executives have made.
"What the hell did we do to deserve this?" Hayward asked shortly after his well exploded in April. Tony, you and your lobbyists danced around environmental protections, refused to install safety equipment, and lied about the likelihood of disaster and your ability to cope with it.
"It wasn't our accident," the CEO later declared as oil was spreading. Wow, Tony, in one four-word sentence, you told two lies. First, BP owns the well, and you damn sure would've claimed the profits from it, so it is your mess. Second, the failure of the blowout preventer was not an "accident," but the inevitable result of hubris and greed flowing directly from BP's executive suite.
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean," Hayward told the media, trying to sidestep the fact that BP's mess was America's worst oil calamity ever. Indeed, Tony said that the amount of oil spewing from the well "is tiny in relation to the total water volume." This just two weeks before it was revealed that the amount of gushing oil was up to 20 times more than BP had been claiming.
Eleven oil workers are dead, thousands of Gulf Coast people have had their livelihoods devastated, and unfathomable damage is being done to the Gulf ecology, yet this guy is still dancing around --and still drawing his $5-million-a-year paycheck. A grassroots boycott is at www.beyondbp.org.