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The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data
The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Uncle Sam wants you. Correction: Big Brother wants you. […]
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative”
Dances of Disinformation: The Partisan Politics of the “Integrity Initiative” Is there such a plane of blissful, balanced information, deliberated and debated upon? No. Governments mangle; corporations distort. Interest groups tinker. Wars must be sold; deception must be perpetrated. Inconsistencies must be removed. There will be success, measured in small doses; failure, dispatched in grand […]
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken
Why Everything That Needs to Be Fixed Remains Permanently Broken Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: the status quo in Europe is doomed. The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem: 1. create currency out of thin air 2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and […]
Sport, Fashion, and Tourism: Corporate Greenwash’s New Frontiers at the UN Climate Talks
Sport, Fashion, and Tourism: Corporate Greenwash’s New Frontiers at the UN Climate Talks What do Adidas, Hilton hotels, and the World Surfing League all have in common? They’re all climate champions, apparently. They also have a lot of customers and fans. Much more than most climate activists – just take a look at their Twitter followings – […]
What’s Behind the Erosion of Civil Society?
What’s Behind the Erosion of Civil Society? Rebuilding social capital and social connectedness is not something that can be done by governments or corporations. As the mid-term elections are widely viewed as a referendum of sorts, let’s set aside politics and ask, what’s behind the erosion of our civil society? That civil society in the U.S. […]
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State “There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the […]
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country
Chris Hedges: U.S. citizens are living in an inverted totalitarian country Chris Hedges The mainstream media deflects attention from where power resides: corporations, not with the leaders of the free world. The arguments posed by Chris Hedges, that the U.S. is neither a democracy nor a republic but a totalitarian state that can now assassinate […]
Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections
Degrading Newspapers’ Business Sections It’s alarming that there are far fewer media outlets for consumer protection news and features than there were thirty years ago. Recall the huge Phil Donahue Show, the regional radio show and TV news shows, the television networks and syndicated radio shows that would report and interview consumer advocates about the […]
A New Cunning Plan to Allay Banking Jitters is Hatched in Spain
A New Cunning Plan to Allay Banking Jitters is Hatched in Spain But there’s a problem with the plan. The Spanish Government has a brand new cunning plan to fortify the country’s banking system, which was rocked last year by the collapse of the sixth biggest bank, Banco Popular. It wants the country’s Deposit Guarantee […]
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 3: 90% Of What You Watch On Television Is Controlled By Just 6 Giant Corporations
How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 3: 90% Of What You Watch On Television Is Controlled By Just 6 Giant Corporations How much is your view of the world shaped by what you see on television? On average, Americans spend more than 150 hours watching television every month, and it is called “programming” […]
How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy
How Big Corporations Game Our Democracy Into Their Plutocracy Photo by Todd Blaisdell | CC BY 2.0 A major chapter in American history – rarely taught in our schools – is how ever larger corporations have moved to game, neutralize and undermine the people’s continual efforts to protect our touted democratic society. It is a […]
The Corporatocracy
The Corporatocracy The interests of Washington and large corporations have merged so completely they are now inseparable. America’s large corporations and its government have merged. Or was it an acquisition? If the latter, who acquired whom? Unfortunately, the labels affixed to purely corporate combinations lose their analytical usefulness here. While the two retain their own […]
#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians
#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians Over 400 protesters were arrested in Washington for exercising their First Amendment right Assemble and Free Speech. They were protesting the ownership of Congress by the banks and corporations. The movement is known as #DemocracySpring and is expected to run for the week. It has been taking place on Twitter […]
Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Pacific “Partnerships” Complete Corporate World Takeover
Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Pacific “Partnerships” Complete Corporate World Takeover As I have emphasized since these “partnerships” were first announced, their purpose is to give corporations immunity from the laws in the countries in which they do business. The principle mechanism of this immunity is the granting of the right to corporations to sue governments and agencies […]
