Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding has Taken Over America [MUST READ]
excerpt from Klein’s 10th anniversary of No Logo intro …
The first time I saw the “Yes We Can” video, the one produced by Black Eyed Peas front man will.i.am, featuring celebrities speaking and singing over a Martin Luther Kingesque Obama speech, I thought: finally, a politician with ads as cool as Nike
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“Though it’s too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favours the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison – while going ahead with an expansion of the lower profile but frighteningly lawless Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and opposing accountability for Bush officials who authorised torture. He will boldly appoint the first Latina to the Supreme Court, while intensifying Bush-era enforcement measures in a new immigration crackdown. He will make investments in green energy, while championing the fantasy of ‘clean coal’ and refusing to tax emissions, the only sure way to substantially reduce the burning of fossil fuels. Most importantly, he will claim to be ending the war in Iraq, and will retire the ugly ‘war on terror’ phrase – even as the conflicts guided by that fatal logic escalate in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
This article should be “must” reading for any socio-politically aware person!
Thanks, Mike!
Posted on 17-Jan-10 at 10:06 am | Permalinkyah this is a good one .. yer welcome 🙂
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