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"  So the latest document dump from the folks at WikiLeaks \u2014 the founder of which remains confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London, hoping to get to Ecuador and out of the reach of the law in a couple of countries including, theoretically, this one \u2014 concerns 2.4 million e-mails emanating to and from the Syrian government and covering a period from 2006 to the present. (You can read &amp;#039;em all here.) WikiLeaks promises that these will serve to embarrass both the Syrian government and the ongoing resistance movement seeking to bring it down. But the joker in the deck is probably those e-mails that involve various multinationals that are profiting from the bloodshed.... Some of the 2,434,899 emails would reveal, Wikileaks promises, &amp;quot;how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another&amp;quot;. No, really? That&amp;#039;s... unpossible! One of the blessings of the whole WikiLeaks phenomenon is that many of the documents that have been released to date serve to illustrate that, all over the world, governmental power and corporate power are gradually becoming indistinguishable from one another. Each serves the other, and, often, the balance of power has come to tilt away from democratic restraints and towards unaccountable corporate power. In fact, WikiLeaks occasionally seems to be the only media enterprise that is even covering this dynamic and its effects on the world. Nobody&amp;#039;s going to have much sympathy for the embarrassment the Syrian government will feel over these revelations in the coming weeks. But, I suspect, the embarrassment felt by &amp;quot;the West and Western corporations&amp;quot; will be vigorously salved. EARLIER: Inside Syria with the Rebels &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; (Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Flickr/Special to The Politics Blog) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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