Monday, August 17, 2009
The Family Agenda
In Christ Uber Alles, Guernica magazine interviews Jeff Sharlet about the Family, the secretive Washington powerbroker that combines authoritarian mysticism and free market fundamentalism. Celebrating seventy years of subverting democracy around the world, the Family's articles of faith include "breaking the spine of organized labor". As a proxy for American power, the Family agenda of Biblical capitalism has attracted cooperation from many US Presidents, Senators and cabinet members like Hillary Clinton; respect for their ideology keeps America's war machine moving.
