Since college, I have always had an abstract idea that there was a centralized organization of all of the major corporations of this country, and that this organization had a serious influence on our dealings with the world. Many people call George Bush a puppet whose strings are being pulled by something far more powerful, intelligent, and all-encompassing then he could ever be.
However, I have never heard anyone able to literally name a single person or organization responsible for most of the seemingly evil activities, covert and not, our government has been involved in the past few decades.

Today, I think I might have stumbled upon one of the biggest culprits.

While googling John McLaughlin(the head of the CIA)today, I stumbled upon a speech given by McLaughlin to Business Executives for National Security, or BENS.

In this speech, McLaughlin mentions several rather cryptic and scary goals for the CIA in the coming years. It made me wonder why he would be giving such a speech to a business organization.

I went to BENS website(www.bens.org), and I could barely believe what I saw.
Their "mission statement" is to directly influence the decisions the CIA, the Pentagon, and the White House make on national security.
Their member list includes CEO's and executives from nearly every major corporation in this country, including Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Rolls-Royce, Bechtel, and many, many, more.

The government isn't even trying to keep it a secret anymore; foreign policy and national security is for sale and business is apparently great.