This should be required reading for all citizens. It explains much of why we are where we are today:

http://www.tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/7603.html

Most people have no idea that at one time corporations were not considered “people” and did not have the rights of you and me, the average citizen. At one time such an idea would have been, [...]

Long forgotten but still just as topical:

“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

A farewell warning from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17th, 1961

While it’s hardly implausible that Chavez supported FARC (see this Washington Post piece), I’m not buying yet. Washington a couple million oily reasons to paint Chavez as a big evil (freely elected) dictator. Despite saying that the “oil belongs to the people” in Iraq, they don’t much like it when countries nationalize their resources, [...]

I just like the word. `Nuff said.