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Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover
We are re-posting some of our best GRITtv interviews while we reconfigure for public television broadcast. Could this conversation with Vandana Shiva - about corporate control and democracy - be any more timely? We don't think so.
"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."
Dr. Shiva has been fighting corporate takeover in every area in her native India, combating a nuclear plant one week and patented, genetically modified seeds another. She joins Laura in studio to advise American activists how they can fight the merging of corporations and government here at home and around the world.
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By Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover | Common Dreams « 2012 Indy Info on April 30th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Santa Fe Institute brought quantum into economics in the 1980s. There has always been a real blocking of new economic thought in US universities controlled by private money. Rockefeller created UChicago precisely because they couldn’t control Harvard or Yale, and you know what kind of bogus economic thought came from there. Now, they all seem to be controlled by private Trustee Money. Blocking complexity economics from Santa Fe Institute is not the first time these webs of institutions managed to do it. They blocked, discredited and buried Henry George who was the most famous American economist in the 1800s and a peer of Marx with a very different solution to capitalism’s ravages. Both Marx and George challenged the absolute power of these property owners over everybody. You can read about this blocking stuff in Eric Beinhocker “The origins of wealth” and Kim Philips-Fein “Invisible Hands”. There is some real hell to pay from these universities who live off private money tax exempt for the public service, and the NFP organizations that accredit them, also tax-exempt for public service not Top 1% service!
By planckbrandt on April 30th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
People are so brainwashed they can’t see how corrupt capitalism has become. You can steal the money from their pockets and they’ll go down defending capitalism.
By Absurdity on April 30th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
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