The Powers and Abuses of America’s Mega-Corporations | Global Research

The Powers and Abuses of America’s Mega-Corporations | Global Research

“Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.” -- Anonymous

In 2010 the
NeoConservative, pro-corporate, anti-democratic Roberts’ 5/4 Supreme
Court’s decided in the  Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission
ruling to grant personhood to corporations by allowing unlimited,
anonymous monetary contributions to political campaigns and candidates.
This ruling, called by many to be the worst Supreme Court decision of
the past century, has emboldened the already powerful and corruptible
multinational corporations (that now have achieved dominion over US
politics as well as the economy) to “buy” any number of politicians and
brain-wash voters by multi-million dollar ad campaigns that the rest of
us can’t afford to counter in state and national elections.

The US Supreme Court has thus made legal the absurd notion that
inanimate corporations like PolyMet and GTac (potential despoilers of
northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin’s irreplaceable wetlands,
aquifers and aboriginal land and water rights) deserve the same
privileges (but not the same responsibilities) as living humans.

After the ruling came down, there was only a brief bit of outrage
from the so-called national leadership of our essentially “one-party
system” (one-party, that is, when it comes to the GOP and Democratic
Party’s corporate and militarist agendas). What outrage was expressed
was quickly drowned out by a well-timed, mainstream media-orchestrated
“tempest in a teapot”, namely Toyota’s recall of tens of thousands of
accelerator pedals (that had only infrequently been the cause of
significant accidents).