Reflections

– About the military-industrial complex
– About human trafficking
– About the excess of economic power
About the military-industrial complex

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.

Dwight Eisenhower, president of the United States, 1961

About human trafficking

Human Trafficking is a global problem; it is the business that moves more money after drug trafficking and above arms trafficking. Corruption and complicity are cruel affinities that prevent from stopping these crimes.

Jorge Eduardo Lozano

About the excess of economic power

Once institutional and regulatory barriers that contained the dominant powers fall, these regain impulse and explore in depth the new margins for maneuver that were granted to them since it is part of the power’s logic to go all the way they can (meaning, until it finds a new obstacle that forces it to stop). But there are no such obstacles anymore or they are very few. We must not count on the spontaneous moderation of the dominant powers since, not knowing any internal regulations, power is determined to conquer all it can. Power tends to excess, that is why restraint must come from the outside.

Frédéric Lordon