Before we explore elite Cornell University’s new course offering entitled “Waiting for Superman” and the connection between Bill Gates, Wall Street and the elite university a little history is in order.
The Powell Memo and the Growth of the Reactionary Right
As I wrote at Truthout.org back in August of 2012:
The strategy and tactics to create a sustained and united countervailing political force was laid out in a memo written by Virginia corporate attorney and soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice, Lewis Powell. Many see this memo as the chief catalyst for the paradigm shift in corporate strategy from bipartisanship to far-right acrimony. Written in 1971 at the request of his client at the time, the powerful US Chamber of Commerce, the Powell memo advised the Chamber that corporations needed to