WSWS has the BP-Gulf disaster properly pegged
This disaster is another demonstration of the way in which global society is vulnerable to the destructive operations of privately owned corporations, whose guiding principle is profit and the enrichment and private shareholders.Only one logical, legal and moral conclusion can be reached from this.
The government has committed massive resources to the military and the Department of Homeland Security, on the pretext that the greatest threat to the American people is some sort of terrorist action. And yet, during the course of the past decade, the greatest catastrophes have been created by giant corporations and the capitalist system. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the decay of social infrastructure in the United States. In 2008, the operations of finance companies plunged the world into economic recession. Now, the criminal actions of BP have led to the poisoning of the Gulf of Mexico.
A criminal investigation into the activities of BP, Transocean, Halliburton and other companies must be launched. Top executives should be arrested and held accountable for this disaster.Barely touched upon in this WSWS editorial are the profound similarities between how Bush responded to Katrina and Obama responded to the BP oil catastrophe: avoidance, prevarication, fake sympathy.
An international committee of scientists and other experts must be convened, completely independent of the corporations and the government, to determine the extent of the catastrophe and the necessary measures that must be taken. No confidence can be placed in the Obama administration or any section of the political establishment to do anything but continue to cover for BP and the oil industry.
If any proof of the sameness of the two dominating parties and government subservience to business was needed. This is it.
Anyone not yet convinced should understand: we can not wait for a third proof. In all likelihood. We would not survive it.
posted by Tom Nadeau at 2:51 AM
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