{"id":59746,"date":"2021-10-08T07:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59746"},"modified":"2021-10-08T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:23:40","slug":"the-anonymous-executioners-of-the-corporate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59746","title":{"rendered":"The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Original illustration by Mr. Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday for misdemeanor contempt of court after he had already spent 787 days under house arrest in New York.<\/p>\n

Preska\u2019s caustic outbursts\u00a0\u2014 she said at the sentencing, \u201cIt seems that only the proverbial two-by-four between the eyes will instill in him any respect for the law\u201d \u2014 capped a judicial farce worthy of the antics of Vasiliy Vasilievich, the presiding judge at the major show trials of the Great Purges in the Soviet Union, and the Nazi judge Roland Freisler who once shouted at a defendant,\u201dYou really are a lousy piece of trash!\u201d<\/p>\n

Donziger, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has been fighting against polluting American oil companies for nearly three decades on behalf of indigenous communities and peasant farmers in Ecuador.\u00a0His\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0\u201ccrime\u201d was winning a $9.5 billion judgment in 2011 against Chevron for thousands of plaintiffs. The oil giant had bought Texaco oil company holdings in Ecuador, inheriting a lawsuit alleging it deliberately discharged 16 billion gallons of toxic waste from its oil sites into rivers, groundwater, and farmland. Since the verdict, Chevron has come after him, weaponizing litigation to destroy him economically, professionally, and personally.<\/p>\n

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The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. Original illustration by Mr. Fish Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[129,9035,9488,31919,30799,31918,8572],"class_list":["post-59746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chevron","tag-chris-hedges","tag-corporate-state","tag-judge-loretta-preska","tag-scheer-post","tag-steven-donziger","tag-us-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59747,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59746\/revisions\/59747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}