Worth a watch or re-watch, because it remains one of the most important documentaries ever made.....

[marmar]

Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
-- http://thecorporation.com/

[Phentex]

1. Going to watch this when I have time...

thanks for the recommendation.

[corkhead]

2. bookmarked for later viewing

[ybbor]

10. Me, too

Thanks for the link

[RiverLover]

3. Totally agree! Its more relevant now than when it first came out, too. Still nails it.

Thanks for the reminder!! Awesome documentary, I wish everyone would watch it.

[marmar]

13. D'accord Mon Ami

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Haha! I guessed correctly even before clicking on the link

I've seen it twice at the theater (once with the filmmakers present for a Q and A) and have owned the DVD for ages. (I also own the original Joel Bakan book upon which it was based.)

Needless to say, I join you in highly recommending it.

[marmar]

14. :)

This, inside job, Enron:smartest guys in the room and food inc., plus the Michael Moore collection, are my faves

[appalachiablue]

5. Watched a bit & bookmarked. Looks excellent- only 150 years ago corporations were a

much less significant part of our society and now they are a dominant institution like the govt., church, etc.

[Moostache]

7. I have watched this several times, maddening that nothing has changed (except for worse) since '03..

I give credit to President Obama for swerving the car back onto the road and off the disastrous path the GOP under Shrub had put us on, but I just wish he would have taken us in a completely new direction as well. The power of the corporation and what they have fully bought is staggering, especially the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate corporations (FIRE indeed)...

The 2007-2008 meltdown should have been the trigger for a real change in policy and practice globally. EVERYONE should have done exactly what Iceland did - but even more. It should have been met with such harsh penalties and fines that only utter fools would have considered staying on with a "business-as-usual; what?-Me-worry?" attitude.

Until the values of society change from obsessions about the Kardashians (or whatever the next flavor-du-jour ends up being) and instead begin REALLY obsessing over climate change, wealth and access distribution, social stratification and antibiotic resistance - we are well and truly fucked.

I can't quite decide which is going to kill more people in the coming decades - superbugs (resistant and untreatable bacteria - who will kick the ever-loving ass out humanity and not ever care at all) or SuperPACs (resistant and untreatable financial deals - who are currently kicking the ass out of representative republic forms of governance.

We're still on the same road that we've been on for 40+ years, and slowing the car from 100 mph to 75 mph and turning down the radio is not enough to save us...

[marmar]

15. ........

[gollygee]

8. I haven't seen this

thank you!

[byronius]

9. In the great book 'Gotham' by Mike Wallace, he details the original creation of the concept.

Corporations were created originally by the Dutch, but only with the caveat that they must serve the public good before the good of the shareholders. The British adopted the form and kept the same language, and then the Americans after them -- the original agreement concerning public welfare was twisted in the early 1900's by bribed justices and rendered null and void with legal trickery.

Thus, the monster. The Dutch knew better, but we don't.

[mountain grammy]

11. I'll watch it later, thank you for posting..

an interview with Milton Friedman? One thing my mom said in 1988 when she knew she was terminal: I'll never get to spit on that fucker Milton Friedman's grave.
Someday, Mom, I hope to do that for you.

Milton Friedman was an evil, evil man. May he not be resting in peace.

[raouldukelives]

12. Kicking and keeping. nt

[L0oniX]

16. Bookmarking.