STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
Dennis Kucinich of the far left and Ron Paul of the libertarian right agree: corporations are not people. Kucinich speaks to this issue at around the 3:40 mark.
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WHY DO WE THINK CORPORTIONS ARE PEOPLE?
Two sentences have resulted in more damage to American democracy than any other. The sentences are simple, but have had profound effects. Both sentences are false on their face, and yet both have been decreed true by the Supreme Court, and are therefore the law of the land. One sentence is that a corporation is …
PRIVACY ISN’T DEAD, JUST MISPLACED
Dahlia Lithwick has an excellent article in Slate about the changing nature of privacy. There’s less for you and me, and more for corporations and groups. “Once upon a time,” she writes, “you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for …