The United States’ slide to corporatocracy

Following the US Supreme Court that removed restrictions on corporate donations to political campaigns, Daniel Patrick Welch looks forward to a day in the not-too-distant future where there will be congressmen representing corporations and where homelessness and disease will vanish because no one will count or diagnose the sick.

The Bush-Packed Supreme Court Thinks Corporations Are People Too

(AlterNet) – Corporations now have all the privileges of citizenship, without any of the responsibilities.

MSM: Corporate Campaign Spending Backed by U.S. High Court (Update4)

(Bloomberg) — A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down decades-old restrictions on corporate campaign spending, reversing two of its precedents and freeing companies to conduct advertising campaigns that explicitly try to sway voters.