Those of you following various blogs on this site or various interviews I've done over the years will be aware of the fact that I am greatly concerned about the growing encroachment of corporations upon our civil liberties and upon social and cultural functions normally fulfilled by the state or religion. Indeed, the U.S. Department of Defense has in past years issued a number of policy decisions allowing growing roles for privatized security "services." The older term for it would be "mercenaries." Now there is this significant story: Wall Street Banks Secretly Build The World’s … [Read more...]