last highlighted date: 2023-12-06
Highlights
- From the 1600s-1945, governments wielded corporations to advance national colonialism. Since WWII, and particularly since 1971, corporations have wielded governments to advance corporate colonialism.
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- The British government used the British East India Company to dominate India and other parts of Asia. Other British corporations ravaged Africa and colonized the Caribbean and the Americas until the Americans gave them the boot. (The Canadians are still under the wildly corrupt Windsor monarchy.)
- The Dutch government used the Dutch East India Company to brutalize Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and South Africa. Remember apartheid? Blame the Dutch.
- The French government used the French East India Company to torture the East Indies, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Madagascar.
- The German government used the German East Africa Company to rape the African continent of ivory, rubber, and cotton.
- The Belgian government concocted the “Congo Free State” a private corporation owned by King Leopold II, fronted by the International Association of the Congo, leading to the murder of millions.
- Note: why those companies named in same way?
- Lockheed Martin, the largest “defense contractor” (AKA war manufacturer) in the world, influences US foreign policy and military spending through its lobbying, campaign contributions, and revolving door practices to profit from geysers of bloodshed in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, as well as from the US military aid to Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other allies.
- Note: Lockheed Martin
- Huawei has been accused of engaging in cyber espionage, violating human rights, and facilitating authoritarian regimes in Africa to expand its reach to forty African countries and 50% of the entire continent’s 4G capacity.
- Note: Huawei