Iraq: Another Victory for Halliburton
Madison’s Capital Times condemns the senate for its party line vote in support of Halliburton’s ‘right’ to abuse the troops and rob the public: “Arguably, it was Chafee who cast the most courageous vote. He faces a September primary against a conservative foe who charges the Rhode Island moderate with failing to follow the party line. Of course, Chafee can counter by explaining that he did not know that, to be a good Republican, a senator must defend the freedom of corporations to provide U.S. troops with water containing fecal matter.”
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June 23rd, 2006 @ 8:53 am
“On Tuesday the Senate was offered an opportunity to restore a measure of congressional oversight to the process by which tax dollars are distributed to private corporations and the activities of those corporations in regions of the world that are supposed to be of critical importance to the United States.”
Recall what George Lakoff said the other night about the U.S. delegating important functions of governance to corporations, that are only guided by the bottom line, not the public interest. Their governance is unaccountable, and the delegation of authority cannot be in violation of the Constitution that regulates our affairs of governance. In other words, our rules of governance cannot be abdicated to private, autocratic, self-interested corporate structures. Citizens ought to have class action standing to bring democracy to the internal workings of corporations, once governance has been so delegated. This initiative should be the second shoe to drop on corporate unnaccountability along with the campaign against corporate personhood. They can take their choice – act like a person or accept economic democracy.