Bush Regime Refuses to Inform Congress of UAE's New Bid to Take Over U.S. Defense Contractors

It's not the least surprising that Bush, the corporate incarnate, would withhold any details about a deal to sell manufacturers of components for U.S. defense to a terrorist state with lots of petroleum. But, who, in the first place, would ever have imagined that, under unregulated "free" trade agreements (ie, regulatory-free trade agreements), the U.S. might be compelled to sell off its military defense (and maybe everything else) to the highest bidder. There would almost be a poetic justice in it.

At issue is a not a matter of where we the people draw the line, but the essential matter at hand involves people rising up to reject and/or transform agreements and entities whose unregulated and undemocratic existence perpetrates most of the more extreme injustices worldwide. At issue is democracy itself, the sovereignty of a nation's right to self-determination. Should the WTO or any outside (trade) entity be allowed to act as a sovereign higher government? Should such an external entity be allowed to act as government with veto power over U.S. laws and regulatory processes? Should such an entity have the power to punish nations for establishing life-protective regulations which interfere with corporate profit? Should a higher governing entity exist without the democratic consent of any citizenry, without any accountability to anything except the profit margins of corporate giants?

This is what the U.S. has embraced. It's tantamount to the collective corporate take-over of governments worldwide, the consequence of which is that only corporate interests are represented, and every other interest, including the democratic will of the people, is crushed. This is also analogous to state fascism, a glorified process that is above reproach as it terminates millions of people's right to exist, especially those who challenge it or refuse to participate in it. It is to institutionalize the perpetual sacrificial offering of mountains of human carnage for a contract with the money gods. There are countless alternatives to this.