The hidden fist behind U.S. monopolies
To defend and excuse the brutal U.S. bombing of
Yugoslavia, Thomas Friedman, the strongest apologist for
capitalist globalization, wrote these oft-quoted words exposing
the ties between U.S. big business and the Pentagon for his
March 28, 1999, New York Times column:
The hidden hand of the market will never work without a
hidden fist--McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell
Douglas, the designer of the F15. And the hidden fist that
keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is
called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine
Corps.
Reprinted from the April 25, 2002, issue of
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