Isaac Asimov, when considering a world where robots had become as functional, intelligent, and more powerful than their human creators, posited three fundamental laws that would determine the behavior of such potentially dangerous human-made creations. His Three Laws of Robotics stipulated that non-living human creations must obey humans yet never behave in a way that would harm humans.
Asimov's thinking wasn't altogether original: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison beat him to it by about 200 years.
Jefferson and Madison proposed an 11th Amendment to the Constitution that would "ban monopolies in commerce," making it illegal for corporations to own other corporations, banning them from giving money to politicians or trying to influence elections in any way, restricting corporations to a single business purpose, limiting the lifetime of a corporation to something roughly similar to that of productive humans (20 to 40 years back then), and requiring that the first purpose for which all corporations were created be "to serve the public good."
The amendment didn't pass because many argued it was unnecessary: Virtually all states already had such laws on the books from the founding of this nation until the Age of the Robber Barons.
Now, Nike is arguing that, as a legal person, they should enjoy the same "free speech" right to deceive that individual human citizens have in their personal lives, in this case, to fraudulently claim that Nike no longer uses slave labor to manufacture its shoes.
This, and what President Lincoln said of the newly enriched corporate enterprises following the Civil War, and more....

Now Corporations Claim The 'Right To Lie'

* Borrowing Bush's Brilliant Idea* When Bush
insisted that U.N. weapons inspectors be able to take
Iraqi scientists and their families outside of Iraq for
interviews, thus protecting the scientists from possible
retaliation by Saddam's secret police, Carlsson had the solution
that had eluded Palme so many years ago. "That's it!" he told a colleague.
"We'll offer U.S. bureaucrats
and their families safe passage to Sweden and a secure
environment from which they can speak freely and publicly to the
folks back home. They can stay here at our expense until a
climate of openness and honesty prevails in the Bush
administration." In addition to Williams, 28 other bureaucrats and their
families
are en route to Stockholm. All were spirited out of Washington by
a team of Swedish secret agents who had honed their rescue skills
in Yugoslavia and the Congo. Once the former officials settle into their new
homes and get
comfortable with saying who they are and what they think, they'll
spend their time giving speeches an interviews. Former CIA analyst Williams is
already a sensation on Swedish TV
as a regular guest on the top-rated chat show, Nugen Farger
("Hard Rugby").

Sweden Offers Sanctuary To U.S Officials Fleeing Bush Regime

"I say that victory is persuading the American people and the rest of the world that this is not a quick matter that's going to be over in a month or a year or even five years. It is something that we need to do so that we can continue to live in a world with powerful weapons and with people who are willing to use those powerful weapons."
U.S. Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld in Jane's Defence Weekly
-- September 21, 2001

"Guns & Butter" investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Maintaining a progressive perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, "Guns & Butter: The Economics of Politics" reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state.

Guns and Butter

- Broke an exclusive story, “The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire” linking the CIA to Halliburton’s Brown and Root and from there to documented drug smuggling across Russia and the Far East.

- Four years of groundbreaking coverage on the role of drug cash in supporting the US economy.

- Two plus years of coverage of the CIA’s involvement in the Colombian drug trade, Plan Colombia, and the preparations for a war in Colombia to control both the drug trade and oil reserves on rebel-held territory. Heavy reportage connecting CIA and US contractors like DynCorp to criminal activities and drugs.

From The Wilderness Publications

Thanks flynn23:
Interesting analysis of news stories from 10 different media outlets. Passages are quoted from 1998 and 2002. All of these passages relate to the big lie that UN weapons inspectors were expelled from Iraq in 1998. It's a bold faced lie being propagated by the following culprits:

ABC News
NBC News
Associated Press, The
Los Angeles Times, The
National Public Radio
Cable News Network
USA Today
New York Times, The
Washington Post, The
Newsday

Not terribly shocking given the corporate media consolidation in the last decade (what are we down to now, like 4 or 5 major holding corporations?) but I've never seen it laid out in such a clear, concise before and after format.

Kill your television. Kill your radio. Free the internet.

History, recovered

The latest PR crap coming at ya. Government and corporate lie-making, dirty tricks, and drug smuggling. This site also has interesting information on the history of spin, such as the early use of front groups to say your message for you (Edward Bernays, father of spin, helped jump-start sales of bacon, a breakfast rarity until the 1920s, by enlisting a prominent doctor to solicit fellow doctors' opinions on the salutary benefits of a hearty breakfast and by arranging to have famous figures photographed eating breakfasts of bacon and eggs).
Critical intelligence for psyop targets. Also includes links to well funded, influential and just plain goofy hard right groups and "think tanks", discussing the utter vileness of the liberal elite that has them under siege. What's a rich gun-toting Republican to do? They'll tell ya.

Spin of the Day