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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 268</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO MARKETS, CAPITALISM,
GLOBALIZATION, CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.5in">-Liberalism defends the interests
of the intellectual elite; conservatism defends the interests of the financial
and industrial elite. The question is: Who defends the interests of human
rights? (…and are we a minority or a majority?).</p>
<br><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Spoiled by its iniquitous economic success, the
Western world has become arrogant. The arrogant victory of financial markets
(with all its excesses) has been possible due to the fact that, under the law
of the jungle, markets have really fallen in the hands of the mightiest as they
sow segregation, discrimination and violence the world over; the ensuing
‘casino economy’ has ended up taking its own excesses to their last consequences….
immorally and to the detriment of human rights.<span style="color:blue"> </span>Ergo,
considering the free market as a final response to
the-major-social-questions-of-our-day-and-age is a dangerous fallacy.</span><br><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">In Capitalism, the market is the great
moralizing medium. Its guns smartly shoot on our unconscious. Since we live in<span style="color:blue"> </span>consumer
societies, do not be fooled by this: we are treated as objects.</span><br><br>To read the rest of this Reader, go to <br><br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1rj">http://wp.me/plAxa-1rj</a> <br><br>Claudio<br>