I know that Eisenhower was the first one to warn us about the "Military-Industrial Complex' (he originally wanted to call it the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, but after all it was Congress he was talking to just before he left office). Things have gotten worse since, from ?The Plutonium Files? (as investigated by Eileen Wellsome), Vietnam, the assassination of JFK, MLK, RFK, Kent State, and Chicago 68, to Iran-Contra, Invasion of Panama, Ruby Ridge, Waco, WTC 9-11, and Iraq.

Industrialization at the turn of the 20th Century created a lot of problems. Problems that Karl Marx and Frederick Engel?s spoke about in the Communist Manifesto. This along with Marx's Das Kapital, and Value, Price, And Profit, formed the core of Communist/Bolshevist philosophy. Lenin's later work "The State And Revolution further spearheaded the movement to global Communism in the third world. One of the tenants of the Communist Manifesto was "Dialectical Materialism." This idea was taken from Feuerbach's Dialectic, and Hegel's Materialism. This idea was based on the historic assumption that there exists in society a constant conflict. Those in power were called the "Thesis" while those who were in constant conflict with those in power (i.e.. The Proletariat) were called the "Anti-Thesis." They would wage violent and nonviolent war until there evolved a new "Thesis" which would be an amalgam of the previous Thesis and Anti-Thesis. This new Thesis would however have it's own Anti-Thesis which would conflict with it once again to form a new Thesis. This would go on and on until one day (miraculously) the State would wither away, and the Proletariat would eventually rule. THIS NEVER HAPPENED! It didn't happen under Mao, and it didn?t happen under Stalin. The reason is quite simple: Power once instituted, will do anything to remain in power, even murder if necessary. This applies not only to governments, but corporations and religions as well. Unfortunately, the problems created for the working class as defined by Karl Marx were never corrected nor solved. Certainly, Communism as existed in the Soviet Union or China did not solve the underlying problems that unbridled Capitalism creates as it becomes international and more monopolistic.

In the 1930's during the Great Depression, the archenemy was Bolshevism and the fear that it might transplant itself here in the form of labor unions. The fear was felt the greatest with the bankers and corporate CEO's like Rockefeller, Getty, Mellon, Morgan, and Rothschild etc. Hence the creation of the "House On Un-American Activities" during the 1950's, where Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy persecuted so many innocent (and some guilty) of aiding Soviet Russia. One of the main reasons for the end of the Great Depression was WWII. The expansion of industry into a Military-Industrial Complex speeded up our recovery out of this malaise, and instilled a new paradigm into the equation: Namely that along with Roosevelt's New Deal, corporations would agree to Social Security in exchange for more power in the form of this new complex being created. However, in order to insure that this was possible, a new enemy had to exist. Joe Stalin gave this to them by throwing an "Iron Curtain" (Churchill's phrase) over Eastern Europe. This lasted until Regan's Star Wars, Solidarity (Lech Walesa & Solidarnosk in Poland), and the new Polish Pope helped bring about the collapse of Communism. It was also the fact that the Soviet Union saw how thanks to Nixon, China was going to get a part of the economic pie promised by the "New World Order" (Bush 89), that Globalization offered.

Globalization is the idea that huge international corporations backed by the World Bank, IMF, WTF etc. will control countries better than their own government could. NAFTA, and the European Union, are all products of this philosophy. The fact is that it does help elevate the overall economics of a country involved, but the country also looses a lot in the process. For one thing, they start to loose their identity and culture. As more McDonalds creep into their society, and the people become more obese due to the change in their diet, they also increase their death rates due to cancer and heart disease. But more importantly, they end up loosing their culture to crass commercialism, all in the name of profit and greed. So, China starts to dismantle its Great Wall and place it near their tourist centers so that they can increase their profit from tourism. What the tourist ends up seeing is not a true representation of China nor what it was or is, but a Disneyland version. This has happened in the U.S. as well. If you have ever been on a cruise to Alaska, and stopped off in Ketchikan, Juno, or Sitka, know that what you are seeing is for you the tourist, and not representative of what these towns were like when I was on Alaskan Fishery Patrols back in the early 70's. Even a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands will present the same scenario. And, Disney wants to take over our national parks and historic landmarks so that they can make a profit off the lost lives of those great Americans who fought and died on these battlefields. Globalization has created an homogenized world where one can go and see basically the same culture everywhere. Don't expect to go to China, France, England, or any other country and expect to see what they were like in your mind of 1945. Sure, one expects change, but not created by the minds of international corporations. Now they want North, Central, and South America to become one economic block similar to the European Union, with one currency, the Amero. Our Constitution will no longer be valid, and corporations (as stated so eloquently in the film ?Network?) will be the One World Government.

Another by product of Globalization is the ?Sweat Shops? that U.S. Corporations use overseas so that they can produce their products with such a large profit margin. The destruction of the Middle Class; the fact that our workers are more productive than ever, producing more goods and services in shorter time while getting paid even less as the value of the dollar shrinks due to the imbalance of trade and the deficit, ensures that unions and collective bargaining are a thing of the past. Another reason that corporations re-locate overseas is to avoid paying taxes, and the fact that environmental law as well as worker?s rights are non-existent. Just look at what is happening to China?s air and water supply. We are starting to feel the effects of their air pollution here in the U.S., as well as their lack of quality control in the products they ship to us. Lead in toys, chemicals in milk, baby, and pet food, all indicate their and our government?s carelessness about the health and welfare of their own people. We in fact are becoming more and more like the Communist (now fascist capitalistic) Chinese government.

You cannot have constant population and economic growth on a finite planet. Sooner or later the oil will run out, and the planet will become so polluted with waste and chemicals that life will find it hard to exist. All of this due to the short-term profit goals of international capitalism, and the exploitation of the Earth?s resources and people.