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The
Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution
will forever change how you read a newspaper or follow the news.
Written by George Draffan, Executive Director of the Public Information
Network, Elite Consensus goes behind the veil of giant corporations-Enron,
Bechtel, Halliburton, Monsanto, and others making our daily news-to show
how the "system" really works.
Draffan outlines how corporations leverage power through think tanks and
business groups like the Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, American
Enterprise Institute, Business Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations
and Chamber of Commerce. He describes the normal, everyday ways these
institutions shape political agendas and investment policies via a shadowy
system of corporate power, to effectively govern what we're told is the
world's greatest democracy.
The Elite Consensus names names. It reads like a playbill of actors on
the stage of domestic and foreign policy who "wield the Constitution"
to their own ends. It provides profiles of those players -- organizations
and think tanks -- whose "experts" are commonly quoted in the media promoting
corporate agendas with no reference to their corporate funders. Unlike
muckraking books about scandals in one industry or another, Draffan focuses
on the mechanisms of power wielded by the entire corporate community.
What can people do? The Supreme Court, which has wrapped these corporations
in the Constitution, says: not a damn thing. For a healthier perspective,
read this book.
Read the foreword now!
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