Global Corporations Now Eclipse the Power of Sovereign States: We are at Their Mercy

MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG

To say that many global corporations get away with murder is not an understatement; it's a likely fact. BP --despite the DOJ's investigation which given the Obama Administration's corporatist record will end up putting some low level figure or two in jail to avoid offending the President's corporate CEO buddies -- as miners get killed because of the intentional negligence of Massey Energy in West Virginia, as men on oil rigs in waters that shouldn't be drilled in get blown to smithereens, and union organizers killed by paramailitary groups with alleged relations to Coca Cola in Colombia and elsewhere, and the list goes on and on.

And then there are the slave wages, toxic pollution, deaths caused by cancer, predatory monopoly of the earth's harvest as Monsanto is doing around the world with its GMO rice.   Then there is the IMF and World Bank forcing third world countries to by from these firms.  Then there is Wal-Mart as our de facto State and Commerce Department power behind the U.S. presence in China, paying slave wages to sell cheap products to Americans who have lost their jobs.  The list goes on and on.

Exxon/Mobil reported the largest profit in the history of the corporate world last year; they make hundreds of billions of dollars.  Few nations have the financial resources of these multinational corporations; the dollars to buy men, women and the power over lives without acccountablity for the death and ruin that they leave in their wake.

Most of the nations of the world, including the U.S. D.C. government and President Obama, are wholly owned subsidiaries of the multi-national corporations who run the world without fear of anything but an occasional outcry and laugably small penalty imposed on them to make it seem like a country's leader is actually punishing them.  But the Masters of the Universe know that the necessary PR stunts are done for political purposes and go about doing what they do best, raping the world for profit.

Ten years ago BuzzFlash was started by me with the vision of progressive socialism, but now i feel the strength of grassroots populism where people create the change and force the corporate puppets in D.C. to flee office if they don't want to be tarred and feathered and dumped into a toxic pool of BP oil sludge.

It's time for a non-violent revolution of civil disobedience against the corporations who run the sovereign governments of the world; it's time for the resources of the planet to return to the people of the planet; it's time for democracy to flourish free of the toxic influence of greed and money concentrated in the hands of so few who care so little about the future of life and the planet.

It is time for an outburst of populism that is a celebration of life and progress against the corporate agents of death and destruction who pull the levers in D.C. and around the world.

MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH, EDITOR'S BLOG