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July 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By Sara Robinson | AlterNet.org
The great power struggle of the 20th century was the competition between Soviet-style communism and “free-market” corporatism for domination of the worlds resources. In America, its taken for granted that Soviet communism lost (though Chinas more capitalist variant seems to be doing well), and the superiority of neo-liberal economics — as epitomized by the great multinational corporations — was thus affirmed for all time and eternity.
Theres a small problem with this, though. An old bit of wisdom says: choose your enemies carefully, because over time, you will tend to become the very thing you most strongly resist. One of the most striking things about our victorious corporations now is the degree to which theyve taken on some of the most noxious and Kafkaesque attributes of the Soviet system — too often leaving their employees, customers, and other stakeholders just as powerless over their own fates as the unhappy citizens of those old centrally planned economies of the USSR were back in the day.
Its not just that the corporations have taken control over our government (though thats awful enough). Its also that theyve taken control over — and put serious limits on — our choices regarding what we buy, where we work, how we live, and what rights we have. Our futures are increasingly no longer our own: more and more decisions, large and small, that determine the quality of our lives are being made by Politburo apparatchiks at a Supreme Corporate Soviet somewhere far distant from us.
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