Corporate Disobedience

In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies.

Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

"I never put those plants on my land," says Schmeiser. "The question is, where do Monsanto's rights end and mine begin?"

Julian Darley is Founder and Director of Post Carbon Institute. He is author of High Noon for Natural Gas: the New Energy Crisis (2004) and co-author of the forthcoming Relocalize Now! Getting Ready for Climate Change and the End of Cheap Oil. Julian has an MSc in Environment and Social Research from the University of Surrey in the UK, an MA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Music & Russian. Before deciding to study the arts, Julian was studying for a career in the sciences. He currently lives in Sebastopol, California.

So the idea of relocalizing is extremely important for putting fiscal power back into the hands of ordinary people so they can make better and more decisions about where their currency goes. And how that fits into corporate disobedience is that if you have worries about globalization, if you don’t like global corporations, like Enron and Worldcom – if you don’t like those kinds of corporations, and you don’t want to promote them, (and there are many others – food corporations, pop companies – pop drinks and fizzy drinks and so forth), then why do you keep buying the products?