What we're reading now: Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War
I just started reading Hailliburton's Army by Pratap Chatterjee. It is easy to think that banning hydraulic fracturing is just going to harm the oil and gas companies, but this book is allowing me to understand the many externalities associated with the relationship between corporations like Halliburton and the US government. Relationships that help fund and thus propagate war. In theory the concept is so simple, but before reading Chatterjee’s book I was unaware of the obvious dependence that the US government has on corporations like Halliburton to conduct their political affairs. I would recommend this book for anyone that is trying to further understand the inner workings of American corporate/political relationships and strengthen their argument against corporate dependence, against corporate subsidies and against unnecessary practices like hydraulic fracturing. Chatterjee's book is available here.
I urge all to engage in this issue of Hyrdofracking, BUT, what gives corporations so much power and inadequate regulation is that the Supreme Court gives them such rights in our "democracy" (power of the people). We let them.
ReplyDeletePlease please take a look at movetoamend.org and sign the petition to END Corporate personhood and the continued watering down of our constitutional rights while corporations get more of a say in the legislative process. This Amendment affects ALL propose environmental and public health legislation. Please unite for this cause.
>> movetoamend.org OR "We the Corporations..."?