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- Noam Chomsky, The Supreme Court, Democracy, Money.January 21, 2010 will go down as a dark day in the history of American democracy, and its decline. The editors of the New York Times did not exaggerate when they wrote that the Supreme Court decision that day “strikes at the heart of democracy” by having “paved the way for corporations to use their vast treasuries to overwhelm elections and intimidate elected officials into doing their bidding” – more explicitly, for permitting corporate managers to do so, since current laws permit them to spend shareholder money without consent.In my reading list | Discuss this article | Edit | Categorize |My bibliography
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