In the United States: a handful of corporations centralize decisions and responsibilities that are relevant for military and political as well as economic developments of global significance. For nowadays the military and the political cannot be separated from economic considerations of power. We now live not in an economic order or a political order, but in a political economy that is closely linked with military institutions and decisions. This is obvious in the repeated 'oil crisis' in the Middle East, or in the relevance of Southeast Asia and African resources for the Western powers:
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To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to …
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Permalink to quote #3 For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have the…
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