Subject: Re: [drugwar] (OT) corporations are insane Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:41:35 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:37:11 -0500, Preston Peet wrote: > ... > >=A0http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=3D17695 > >=A0Corporations Are Insane >=A0By Ross Crockford, AlterNet >=A0January 29, 2004 >=A0Enron. WorldCom. Bechtel. Halliburton. To the cheerleaders on= MSNBC and in >=A0The Wall Street Journal, such deceitful, profiteering companies= are a few >=A0"bad apples" in a healthy economic barrel, as rare as a= murderer in a >=A0convent. >=A0But a new documentary that premiered at the Sundance festival= film last week >=A0argues that these rogue companies aren't the exception, they're= the rule. >=A0The controversial premise of The Corporation is that every= company is >=A0legally programmed to act like a psychopath. And the bigger it= gets, the >=A0worse it behaves. And the biggest of all , and the only ones who are structurally= monopolies of and by force , are the geographical monopolies called= "states" . >=A0"The corporation is a paradox," says Mark Achbar, who= co-directed and wrote >=A0the documentary with Vancouver filmmaker Jennifer Abbott and= law professor >=A0Joel Bakan. > "It generates tremendous wealth, but at tremendous social and >=A0environmental cost." That's self-contradictory . Tremendous wealth means social and= environmental well being . Show one example of a non-market dictatorship in= the name of the proletariat that is not a basket case in both social ( standard= of living ) and environmental ( clean water and air , low erosion , safe= reactors ) measures . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/02/10 10:29:11 AM