Thursday, July 15, 2004

How Corporate Power is Driving the War

from The Guardian

As the corporate interest moves to power in what was the public sector, it serves the corporate interest. It is most clearly evident in the largest such movement, that of nominally private firms into the defence establishment. From this comes a primary influence on the military budget, on foreign policy, military commitment and, ultimately, military action. War. Although this is a normal and expected use of money and its power, the full effect is disguised by almost all conventional expression.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

2 comments:

Sheryl said...

Take a read at this testimony by Chuck Spinney to Congress. It's sort of the other end of the equation:

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/spinney_testimony_060402.htm

Sheryl said...

I was thinking that I remembered that John Galbraith had been on Hard Talk recently, but I went back and looked and it was a different Galbraith.

I went back and watched the interview with Peter Galbraith, and it was really good. Even though Tim Sebastian seems to have decided to ally himself with the dark side of the force. Anyway....