corporate power

Video: The globalization of the American psyche

by Attention to the Unseen 08.26.2012

Ethan Watters: The Globalization of the American Psyche from Berkeley Arts and Letters and Berkeley Arts and Letters on FORA.tv (H/t Beyond Meds)

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Who is securing your world?

by News Sources 06.12.2012

Laurie Penny writes about the company which will be policing this summer’s London Olympics: The first thing you need to know about G4S is that it’s enormous. It has 657,000 employees – more than the population of Glasgow – and is the world’s second-largest private employer, after the American retail giant WalMart. It’s also booming, [...]

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Now Glencore’s gone public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?

by News Sources 04.24.2012

Ken Silverstein reports: When Glencore, the world’s biggest commodities brokerage firm, went public in May 2011, the initial public offering (IPO) on the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges made headlines for weeks in the Financial Times and the trade-industry press, which devoted endless columns to the company’s astonishing valuation of nearly $60 billion — [...]

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The globalization of hollow politics

by News Sources 04.23.2012

Chris Hedges writes: I went to Lille in northern France a few days before the first round of the French presidential election to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate François Holland. It was a depressing experience. Thunderous music pulsated through the ugly and poorly heated Zenith convention hall a few blocks from the [...]

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‘The American Empire is over and the descent is going to be horrifying!’

by News Sources 01.08.2012
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Can Citizens United be rolled back?

by News Sources 12.16.2011

Andy Kroll reports: On Thursday evening, residents of 83 towns and cities throughout the country—places like Marietta, Georgia, and East Troy, Wisconsin, and Anchorage, Alaska—will make their way to the home of a friend or neighbor or outright stranger for a night of partying. But these aren’t holiday parties. They’re the ground-level rumblings of a [...]

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Why ‘we the people’ must triumph over corporate power

by News Sources 12.12.2011

Bill Moyers writes: Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court handed for-profit corporations the right to secretly flood political campaigns with tidal waves of cash on the eve of an election, they moved America closer to outright plutocracy, where political power derived from wealth [...]

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Advertisers shun ‘All-American Muslim,’ yielding to pressure from Christian extremists

by News Sources 12.11.2011

The Religion News Service reports: Lowe’s, the national hardware chain, has pulled commercials from future episodes of “All-American Muslim,” a TLC reality-TV show, after protests by Christian groups. The Florida Family Association, a Tampa Bay group, has led a campaign urging companies to pull ads on “All-American Muslim.” The FFA contends that 65 of 67 [...]

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Jeffrey Sachs: “We have to get back to grown-up behaviour”

by News Sources 12.11.2011
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Corporations are not people

by News Sources 12.06.2011

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How students landed on the front lines of class war

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Juan Cole writes: The deliberate pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the horrific incident must not cloud the real question: What led comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the Occupy protest movement against income inequality and big-money politics in the first place? The University [...]

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Inside the corporate plan to occupy the Pentagon

by News Sources 11.22.2011

Adam Weinstein reports: With time fast running out for the so-called deficit supercommittee, the mammoth amount of government money spent on the military has become a prime target in Washington. But the main focus isn’t on big-ticket weapons projects or expensive wars—it’s on retirement benefits for the roughly 17 percent of soldiers, Marines, sailors, and [...]

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Bill McKibben, Keystone XL, and Barack Obama

by News Sources 11.22.2011

Jane Mayer writes: Last spring, months before Wall Street was Occupied, civil disobedience of the kind sweeping the Arab world was hard to imagine happening here. But at Middlebury College, in Vermont, Bill McKibben, a scholar-in-residence, was leading a class discussion about Taylor Branch’s trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr., and he began to wonder [...]

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Lobbyists plan to defend Wall Street and attack the Occupy movement

by News Sources 11.21.2011

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC reports: A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up [...]

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Rep. Deutch introduces OCCUPIED constitutional amendment to ban corporate money in politics

by News Sources 11.19.2011

Zaid Jilani reports: In one of the greatest signs yet that the 99 Percenters are having an impact, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all. Deutch’s amendment, called the Outlawing Corporate Cash [...]

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Lessons of the Luddites

by News Sources 11.18.2011

Eliane Glaser writes: Two hundred years ago this month, groups of artisan cloth workers began to assemble at night on the moors around towns in Nottinghamshire. Proclaiming allegiance to the mythical King Ludd of Sherwood Forest, and sometimes subversively cross-dressed in frocks and bonnets, the Luddites organised machine-wrecking raids on textile factories that quickly spread [...]

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“We can’t let the banks rewrite history”

by News Sources 11.15.2011

Michael Powell writes: The Bank of America lawyer laid down a patented rhetorical move heard in courts across America. Your Honor, this Orange County, N.Y., homeowner — a New York City police officer — didn’t make enough money to qualify for a mortgage modification. He didn’t send us the right documents. He didn’t, he didn’t, [...]

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The Occupy movements are the realists, not the ruling elites

by News Sources 11.15.2011

John Gray writes: The Occupy movements have been attacked for being impractical visionaries. In fact it is the established political classes of the west that are wedded to utopian thinking, while the protesters are recalling us to the actualities of human experience. Based on economic theories that left out human beings, the global free market [...]

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The new progressive movement

by News Sources 11.14.2011

Jeffrey Sachs writes: Twice before in American history, powerful corporate interests dominated Washington and brought America to a state of unacceptable inequality, instability and corruption. Both times a social and political movement arose to restore democracy and shared prosperity. The first age of inequality was the Gilded Age at the end of the 19th century, [...]

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Finally, a judge stands up to Wall Street

by News Sources 11.14.2011

Matt Taibbi writes: Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time. He showed that again yesterday when he shat all over the SEC’s latest dirty settlement with serial fraud offender Citigroup, refusing to let the captured [...]

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Bill Moyers: ‘They are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street is occupying America

by News Sources 11.04.2011

Bill Moyers says: The great American experience in creating a different future together — this “voluntary union for the common good” – has been flummoxed by a growing sense of political impotence — what the historian Lawrence Goodwyn has described as a mass resignation of people who believe “the dogma of democracy” on a superficial [...]

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Biggest public firms paid little U.S. tax, study says

by News Sources 11.03.2011

The New York Times reports: Warren E. Buffett, take note. It is not just a few wealthy individuals paying unusually low taxes to the federal government. Corporate America is not far behind. A comprehensive study released on Thursday found that 280 of the biggest publicly traded American companies faced federal income tax bills equal to [...]

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