Chris Hedges, truthdig.com, January 24, 2010
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Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy and the triumph of corporate power. But it does not significantly alter the political landscape. The corporate state is firmly cemented in place.
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Democracy in America is a useful fiction
Chris Hedges, truthdig.com, January 24, 2010
Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate control. It exposes the myth of a functioning democracy and the triumph of corporate power. But it does not significantly alter the political landscape. The corporate state is firmly cemented in place.
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Tags: Barack Obama, campaign, Chris Hedges, Congress, corporate power, corporations, democracy, government, health, History, inverted totalitarianism, media, military, money, politics, United States, US Supreme Court
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