"I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."- JFK 10/26/63 Amherst College
Dvmx.com has been a chronicle of the wrongdoing and dishonesty that marked the first years of this new millennium, and of the courageous ones who spoke truth to power in those grim times, and who therefore laid the foundation for the electoral victories of November 2008. The website updates since then have been footnotes to the story.
But something now needs to be said. As of December 2009, we have discovered ourselves in a new reality; one where several wealthy corporate cartels manipulate our government to prevent reform and insure vast profits to the managers of these parasitical syndicates. We've seen the inability of a reformist majority to successfully reform any of these corporate syndicates, which apparently control Congress with the vigorous support of the Corporate Media.
Let's call them out- the Health Insurance Syndicate which has turned health-care reform into a mandate requiring all citizens to sign up for Corporate "insurance", with no public option and no medicare buy-in option; Big Pharma, which won guarantees that the government would not negotiate lower prices or allow re-importation of vastly overpriced pharmaceuticals; The War Syndicate which got it's Afghan surge; The Financial Syndicate, which robbed the country of trillions of dollars under the threat of destroying the economy; and finally, the Petrochemical Syndicate which is blocking efforts to control carbon emissions and combat climate change.
The score so far? 5 out of 5 for the corporate syndicates, 0 for the people.
We're in a new world now, one where electing a reformist president and a reformist congress is not in itself sufficient to save the middle class and assure future prosperity.
These racketeering syndicates are apparently invulnerable to the democratic process in this country, and will continue to loot the government and the people it represents until the last drop is extracted and added to their off-shored profits and bonus rolls.
What can be done? First, don't buy the propaganda which spews from corporate media; remember for example, that when someone rails against big government, this is propaganda- the corporate syndicates do not want "big government" because that means regulation and transparency requirements. Remember that we have a government of, by, and for the people. In the United States, it is via our representative government that we citizens can protect ourselves and our society from predatory capitalism. That is why corporate syndicates want to shrivel government.
We must be determined instead to shrivel the corporate syndicates which have usurped power from the people for their own unprincipled profits. While there is still time.
- Editor
Updates:
"The whole debate about health care is a faux debate. It's driven by for-profit corporations who have the legal right to hold your sick children hostage while they bankrupt you as you try and save your son or daughter. Any honest discussion of health-care in this country would begin with the factual acknowledgment that the for-profit health-care industry is the problem and has to be destroyed. And that's not going to happen. It's not going to happen because we live in a corporate state, where corporations drive not only the policy, but the very discussion itself. And I don't see how anyone can call themselves a progressive, or even a liberal, if they don't call for the destruction of this system, which saw 40,000 American citizens last year die because they couldn't afford proper medical care. These are companies that quite literally make their money off of death."
- Chris Hedges, Boiling Frogs interview excerpt
(listen to complete mp3 interview)
SCUSA: Corporations are people, and money is speech (free).
"I hope we shall ... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
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