Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Selective Leaks Of The #PanamaPapers Create Huge Blackmail Potential

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, April 4, 2016

Selective Leaks Of The #PanamaPapers Create Huge Blackmail Potential

Click here to access article by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

Bernhard's investigation of this incident suggests another instance of the use of deception by the directors of the capitalist ruling class to smear their opponents and control others through the use of blackmail.

A real leak of data from a law firm in Panama would be very interesting. Many rich people and/or politicians hide money in shell companies that such firms in Panama provide. But the current heavily promoted "leak" of such data to several NATO supporting news organization and a US government financed "Non Government Organization" is just a lame attempt to smear some people the U.S. empire dislikes. It also creates a huge blackmail opportunity by NOT publishing certain data in return for this or that desired favor.