Nations or Corporruptions

Paul Kahn, professor of law and the humanities at Yale wrote a piece this morning for the OP-ED section of the LA TIMES. 

"FEAR CORPORATIONS OR FEAR NATIONS."

The jest of the piece says that we should be worried more about the nation-states concept than about how corporations are running the political show and controlling our individual rights.

 The following two statements summarize his article

"Today, the threats posed by corporations increasingly shape everyday understandings.  Many people rightly worry that the transnational corporation is not subject to democratic political control but, on the contrary, controls our politics.  They believe that government policies support corporate profits over individual success."

"We do not have more to worry about from transnational corporations than from other nations.  The world is not yet done with nation-states. Indeed the world is becoming more dangerous; we have exhausted the post-Cold War peace bonus.  One only need to look at the disasters in the Middle East, the fear along the western border of Russia and the changing political alliances of Southeast Asia.  These are conflicts driven by resource scarcity, religious differences, ethnic division and sheer political power. They are not conflicts driven by corporate interests."

Now me....no longer Professor Kahn.........

I'M GOING TO SIMPLY SAY......HUH?

The corporate interest involved in resource scarcity cannot be overlooked.  The corporate interest involved in oil and gas production cannot be overlooked when one tries to determine how conflicts get started.

Organized religions are the strangest form of corporations that have ever existed....and they are tax-exempt....and they have always displayed a desire to control individual thoughts and actions.

In fact, I might consider that initial corporations were formed from enterprising merchants looking toward the church on how to manipulate their flocks.....I mean stocks.

I believe that we do have nations that still want to increase their power but I've always heard that if you want to solve the case.....follow the money.

Corporruptions cannot be overlooked when he comes to who wants to control what.....and when one looks at the physical conflicts, both religious and resource control efforts, taking place around our planet...it's important to realize that business is thriving in some very large munitions corporate headquarters.

AND THOSE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS ARE BASED IN

CHINA

RUSSIA

and

THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA

Please Professor Kahn, don't give the benefactors of global conflicts a pass.......follow the money.

The dangerous part of this is that our corporruptions aren't based in the White House.  China and Russia seem to be their own corporruptions and there in lies the rub.  Neither one of those powers seems to be democratic.  At least in a democracy we have checks and balances......and see, one more example of following the money.

By the way....the OP-ED section of LA TIMES is always entertaining.

Michael Timothy McAlevey