HOW DO YOU TEAR APART AN EMPIRE? PART BY PART.
Hawkmoon,
Re: But bullying the biggest financial community out there, the US financial markets, would be a different trick indeed.
This is exactly what was proposed in New York City to loud applause last Tuesday evening:
democracynow.org
Quoting Arundhati Roy:
"Empire is paranoid because it has a soft underbelly.
Its “homeland” may be defended by border patrols and nuclear weapons, but its economy is strung out across the globe. Its economic outposts are exposed and vulnerable. Already the Internet is buzzing with elaborate lists of American and British government products and companies that should be boycotted. Apart from the usual targets — Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds — government agencies like USAID, the British DFID, British and American banks, Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch, and American Express could find themselves under siege. These lists are being honed and refined by activists across the world. They could become a practical guide that directs the amorphous but growing fury in the world. Suddenly, the “inevitability” of the project of Corporate Globalization is beginning to seem more than a little evitable.
It would be naïve to imagine that we can directly confront Empire. Our strategy must be to isolate Empire’s working parts and disable them one by one....."
Ms. Roy received a long, standing ovation from over 3,000 eager listeners on Manhattan Island.... |
