President Cheney + White House = Corporate Business

I had made a comment some time ago that Bush and Cheney were running the White House like a corporate business without the 1099 tax form. Here is an interesting article that talks about the cabinet members who are and were part of the Bush Administration that have or had ties with corporate business.

Corporatism at the Helm

A unipolar world is a problem in itself, but it becomes a horrifying nightmare if this unipole is an imperialist power with neoliberal ideology that is geared to nothing but expansion and profit, markets and oil, whose decision-makers are indeed corporate CEOs turned politicians.

The degree of major corporate representation in the current US administration is a patent fact:



President George W. Bush is an ex-CEO of Harken Energy; Vice President Dick Cheney is an ex-CEO of Halliburton; former Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld is the ex-CEO of General Instruments and Searle Pharmaceutical Company; current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was a member of the board of trustees of Fidelity Investments, and on the board of directors of NACCO Industries, Inc., Brinker International, Inc., Parker Drilling Company, Science Applications International Corporation, and VoteHere, a technology company which seeks to provide cryptography and computer software security for the electronic election industry. Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neil is ex-CEO of Alcoa; former Secretary of the Treasury John Snow is an ex- President and CEO of CSX Corporation; former Secretary of Commerce Don Evans is the ex-CEO of Tom Brown Inc.; current Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson is ex-Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card is an ex-CEO of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association. Former Army Secretary Thomas White is an ex-Vice Chairman in Enron; former Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey is an ex-CEO of the IT Group, a defense contractor; former Secretary of the Air Force James Roche is an ex-executive in Northrop Grumman; former Secretary of the Navy and current Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England is an ex-President of General Dynamics and ex-President of Lockheed; current Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter is a former top executive of Northrop Grumman.6 On and on.

All those politicians are corporation executives of the first rank, a substantial number involved in oil and energy firms, and most with strong connections with the military/industrial complex. Such involvement is organic, so much so that Chevron Corporation named one of its oil tankers after Condoleeza Rice! More on the story.