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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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Corporate killers
If you’ve ever wondered if greed knows any limits—if corporate and government “leaders” would draw the line at, say, killing children—wonder no longer.
The proof came just before Christmas, when George W.’s top trade negotiator blocked an agreement by the WTO to provide life-saving drugs to poor countries being ravaged by baby-killing diseases, from AIDS to malaria. The agreement would have allowed generic versions of drugs to be made and shipped to the impoverished nations.
But the Bushites squealed that the deal was “an assault on the intellectual property rights” of drug companies. Hello? Property rights?
Tell that to a South African mom whose infant son was born HIV-positive. Explain to her that the lives of hundreds of thousands of children like hers are at stake, yet Bush & Co. are rushing to protect the property rights of Pfizer, Merck, Schering Plough, and the other super-rich global greedheads.
They claim that the agreement might allow poor countries to get more medicines than are “necessary,” and that some of these countries might even abuse the deal to get generic versions of drugs like Viagra.
Babies are dying, and these scoundrels are wailing about the possibility of pinching the profits on Viagra sales! To say no to this outrage, call Doctors Without Borders at 212-679-6800.