TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
& WORLD TRADE
Global Exchange - link
" A serious and explicit
purpose of our foreign policy [is] the encouragement of a hospitable
climate for investment in foreign nations. "
Dwight Eisenhower, President of
the United States, 1953
*****
"It is the professed
goal of U.S. multinational corporations to control as large a
share of the world market as they do of the United States market."
Harry Magdoff
Fifty Years Is Enough - link
" Since trade ignores
national boundries and the manufacturer insists on having the
world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and
the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be
battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded
by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations
be outraged in the process."
Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States, 1907
Know Thine Enemy -- a history of corporations in US
"The achievements of past
struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being]
undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no
napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social
(rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly
neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute
a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment."
Michel Chossudovsky, economist
*****
" The Pentagon budget
is part of the funnel by which public funds are transferred to
the high-tech industries. "
Noam Chomsky, American linguist
and US media and foreign policy critic
Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic
When Corporations Rule the World
"... the establishment
can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ...
countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged,
including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices
that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization
of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to
the transnational corporation..."
Edward Herman, economist and media
analyst
NAFTA / FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)
" The Darwinian concept
of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy
of the survival of the slickest. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
*****
" The so-called "defense"
corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great
loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S.
corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves.
"
John Stockwell, former CIA official
and author
Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI)
"True, the white man brought
great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though
highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And
if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then
what is progress?"
Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933
*****
"The United States does
not have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mind-set
that puts this country first."
Cyrill Stewert, Chief Financial
Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Corporation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
"I spent thirty-three
years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle
man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short,
I was a racketeer for capitalism."
General Smedley Butler, former
US Marine Corps Commandant,1935
*****
" There is ...a huge tacit
conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational
corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military
cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control
of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture
basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully
nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers"
of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied
with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation
of subversives."
Edward Herman, economist and media
analyst
*****
" As an economy measures
performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a
major source of inefficiency. "
David Korten, economist and internationalist
International Monetary Fund, World Bank
"This use of the government
of all for the enrichment and aggrandizement of few is a revolution....
These sovereign powers ... have been given by you and me, all
of us, to our government to be used only for the common and equal
benefit. Given by all to be used by all, it is a revolution to
have made them the perquisite of a few."
Henry Demarest Lloyd,1847 - 1903,
US journalist
Structural Adjustment
"Corporations have been
enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow
and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working
on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated
in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."
and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."
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