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2018-11-14 — rollingstone.com
To recap: a company whose profits soared 27 percent to $3.03 billion last year just received an additional $2 billion or more in tax breaks, and may also be in line for $10 billion more in tax money through the JEDI deal.
... No population genuinely worried about abuses of power would even countenance placing a single private company in control of securing the data of both the intelligence community and the armed services. Add putting a major media organ or two under the same umbrella and you're beginning to enter oligarchy territory. Moving Amazon closer to America's political and financial capitals isn't just about creating a few jobs. It's also a symbolic move that speaks to the unsettling co-mingling of state and corporate power. We might wake up soon and wish we hadn't put so many eggs in one basket. source article | permalink | discuss | subscribe by: | RSS | email Comments: Be the first to add a comment add a comment | go to forum thread Note: Comments may take a few minutes to show up on this page. If you go to the forum thread, however, you can see them immediately. |