https://www.latestly.com/world/snowden-criticizes-indictment-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-over-unspecified-documents-492717.html
https://www.latestly.com/world/snowden-criticizes-indictment-of-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-over-unspecified-documents-492717.html
“There are whole sections of the United States that now resemble the developing world. There has been a Weimarization of the American working class. And the assault on the middle class is now under way. Anything that can be put on software—from finance to architecture to engineering—can and is being outsourced to workers in countries such as India or China, who accept pay that is a fraction of their Western counterparts, and without benefits. And both the Republican and Democratic parties, beholden to corporations for money and power, have allowed this to happen.
ReplyDeleteOver the past few decades, we have watched the rise of a powerful web of interlocking corporate entities, a network of arrangements within subsectors, industries, or other partial jurisdictions to diminish and often abolish outside control and oversight. These corporations have neutralized national, state, and judicial authority. The corporate state, begun under Ronald Reagan and pushed forward by every president since, has destroyed the public and private institutions that protected workers and safeguarded citizens. Only 7.8 percent of workers in the private sector are unionized. ”
Excerpt From: Chris Hedges. “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.” iBooks.