Edward Herman: As human rights conditions deteriorate, factors affecting the "climate of investment, " like the tax laws and labor repression, improve from the viewpoint of the multinational corporation. This suggests an important line of causation -- military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate.... The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6885
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Thomas Melville: The actual state of violence composed of the malnutrition, ignorance, sickness and hunger of the vast majority of the Guatemalan population, is the direct result of a capitalist system that makes the defenseless Indian compete against the powerful and well-armed landowner. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote6886
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in reply to Protestation • • •Ajouter aussi les leninistes, stals, fans de politiciens sociaux démocrates
Mais aussi les orateurs et les prescripteurs intellectuels de gauche élitiste, ceux qu'on voit partout dans les médias, ce qui sont invité alors qu'ils étaient même pas concernée et a qui on laisse le micro quand même...
Contre ces mecs qui se sont arrogé la place des exégètes de leur dieu Marx, comme ces prêtres qui veillent a lire la Bible selon leur façon de voir qui les maintiennent toujours au pouvoir....