[New-Poetry] "Found Prose Political Sonnet: Bush Clears the Way for Corporate Domination"

[Halvard Johnson]

Found Prose Political Sonnet:  Bush Clears the Way for Corporate  
Domination

When George W. Bush says that he wants to spread freedom to every  
corner of the earth,
he means it. But, of course, the president who turned Soviet-era  
gulags into secret CIA
prisons in order to do God-knows-what to God-knows-whom isn't talking  
about
individual freedom. He means corporate freedom—freedom for the great  
multinationals

to extract everything they can from the world's resources and labor  
without the hindrance
of public interest laws, environmental regulations or worker  
protections. Bush's vision
of a free world actually looks just like the corporate globalization  
agenda pushed by
a succession of American presidents in institutions like the World  
Trade Organization.

But this administration yearns for freedom too much to leave it up to  
trade negotiators.
Unlike his predecessors, Bush isn't content to use carrots and sticks  
and a liberal dose of
arm-twisting to advance that agenda. His administration has made the  
neoliberal policies
euphemistically referred to as "free-trade" a centerpiece of its  
national security policy.

Bush is willing to use the awesome force of the United States military
to guarantee the freedom of the world's largest multinationals.



[Source: Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on May 5, 2006, Printed on May 7, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/story/35846/]


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