CORPORATE WHORES

Divide And Conquer: Unpacking Stratfor’s Rise To Power

By Steve Horn | July 25, 2013, mintpressnews

This is part one of an exclusive Mint Press News investigation into the story of Stratfor. Don’t miss part 2.

On Christmas Day 2011, the hacktivist collective Anonymous ruined the day for a security firm that, throughout much of its history, enjoyed operating in the shadows.

The firm: Strategic Forecasting, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based intelligence-collecting contracting company better known as Stratfor. Its clients include some of the most profitable multinational corporations on the planet, such as the American Petroleum Institute, Archer Daniels Midland, Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola.

By Patrice Greanville with Jason Miller
Note: This is a repost. This essay was written by TGP’s editor in chief in 2008, years before the founding of The Greanville Post.

Obama at the Democratic National Convention, 2004. The corporate media and fellow politicos simply consecrated him, overnight, as the new “tribune of the people.” His nomination was more like a coronation.

Originally published on March 20, 2008 and in simulpost on Dandelion Salad

Bstcyrano.org/ Thomas Paine’s Corner
3/19/08

“Of Obama, Democrats, and the Power Elite”

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]HARISMATIC, ARTICULATE, SMOOTH, AND INTELLIGENT, Barack Obama is the living embodiment of his vague, ethereal, and tantalizing messages of “hope” and “change.” To the millions upon millions of US Americans desperate to purge the naked imperialism and blatant criminality of the Bush administration from the White House, Obama IS hope and change. Yet like many establishment liberals before him, Obama is no cure for the malignant creep toward fascism plaguing our nation. If elected, at best he will merely serve to postpone the inevitable a bit.

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