When you gaze at the square-jawed glisten of Mitt Romney, you do not immediately picture the kidnapping of a democratically elected president, nor the installation of a tyrant who slaughtered at least half a million people. Yet that is what this man has presented as a model for the future of US foreign policy. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
It worked. From Romney’s perspective, Indonesia became more free – because now it was cracked open for corporations to be free to use as they please, with the ability of the people to resist crushed at gunpoint. Suharto staged a conference for multinational corporations and handed them the rights to exploit great swathes of the country. It became known as an investors’ paradise. * So what does this reveal about how Romney would rule? It is clear he doesn’t only think that corporations are people; he thinks that corporations are the people who deserve to be free above all else — even if it’s the freedom to topple democracies and empower tyrants.
