I like the turn after the octet, Hal.
mj
Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Found Prose Political Sonnet: Bush Clears the Way for Corporate
> Domination
>
> When George W. Bush says that he wants to spread freedom to every
> corner of the earth,
> he means it. But, of course, the president who turned Soviet-era
> gulags into secret CIA
> prisons in order to do God-knows-what to God-knows-whom isn't talking
> about
> individual freedom. He means corporate freedom�freedom for the great
> multinationals
>
> to extract everything they can from the world's resources and labor
> without the hindrance
> of public interest laws, environmental regulations or worker
> protections. Bush's vision
> of a free world actually looks just like the corporate globalization
> agenda pushed by
> a succession of American presidents in institutions like the World
> Trade Organization.
>
> But this administration yearns for freedom too much to leave it up to
> trade negotiators.
> Unlike his predecessors, Bush isn't content to use carrots and sticks
> and a liberal dose of
> arm-twisting to advance that agenda. His administration has made the
> neoliberal policies
> euphemistically referred to as "free-trade" a centerpiece of its
> national security policy.
>
> Bush is willing to use the awesome force of the United States military
> to guarantee the freedom of the world's largest multinationals.
>
>
>
> [Source: Joshua Holland, AlterNet
> Posted on May 5, 2006, Printed on May 7, 2006
> http://www.alternet.org/story/35846/]
>
>
> Hal
>
> Today's Special
>
> The Sonnet Project
> http://www.xpressed.org/hsonnet.pdf
>
> Halvard Johnson
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