here ya go...
hedges archive: 2015:
"... The Greeks and the US working poor endure the same deprivations because they are being assaulted by
the same system — corporate capitalism.
There are no internal constraints on corporate capitalism. And the few external constraints that existed have
been removed. Corporate capitalism, manipulating the world’s most powerful financial institutions, including
the Eurogroup, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve, does what it is
designed to do: It turns everything, including human beings and the natural world, into commodities
to be exploited until exhaustion or collapse.
In the extraction process, labor unions are broken, regulatory agencies are gutted, laws are written by
corporate lobbyists to legalize fraud and empower global monopolies, and public utilities are privatized.
Secret trade agreements — which even elected officials who view the documents are not allowed to speak
about — empower corporate oligarchs to amass even greater power and accrue even greater profits at the
expense of workers.
To swell its profits, corporate capitalism plunders, represses and drives into bankruptcy individuals,
cities, states and governments. It ultimately demolishes the structures and markets that make capitalism
possible..."
billmoyers.com
but, geez, don't be an energy vampire!
youtube.com
from oprah: the metaphysics of privilege.
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