Tag: business
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Propaganda as a Means of Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy
I publish a lot of articles related to propaganda. And here’s another one đ The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. There have been two…
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Dewey on the “Shadow Cast on Society by Big Business”
I was skimming my archive and came across this wonderful essay from Dewey. John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, democratic socialist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. A well-known public intellectual, he was also a major voice of progressive education and liberalism. John Dewey: The Later Works,…
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Confirmed: The U.S. Wants Venezuela’s Oil
Let’s get right to it. The U.S. has never been interested in democracy or the freedom of other nations. History proves it so. I recently published the U.S. embassy cables outlining their 5-point strategy in Venezuela: 1) Strengthening Democratic Institutions2) Penetrating Chavezâ Political Base3) Dividing Chavismo4) Protecting Vital US business5) Isolating Chavez internationally Here’s the…
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U.S. Supreme Court: Republicans – 20, Democrats – 8
Republicans – 20 and Democrats – 8 That’s the number of Supreme Court judges appointed by each party since the end of World War 2. That’s a difference of +12. If we’re keeping score, the Republicans are annihilating the Democrats in the Judicial branch of our government. Have the Republicans simply been luckier? Maybe, but…
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A Brief History of Citizens United and Corporate Power
Let’s talk Citizens United and Corporate Power. Citizens United is a symptom of a bigger, longstanding threat: for decades the largest corporations have been building power over our political process. The 1960s and 1970s were some of the most trans-formative years in American history. The 1960s saw the rise of social movements across the nation…
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The Minsky Moment and the Inherent Flaws of a Free Market Economy
Hyman Minsky was an American economist and a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis. Minsky spent his life on the margins of economics but his ideas gained currency with the 2007-08 financial crisis. To many, it seemed to offer one of the most plausible accounts of why it had happened. Minsky wrote…
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Noam Chomsky on How Businesses Sought to Destroy the Democratic Movements of the 1960s
Democracy Now! JUAN GONZĂLEZ: I wanted to take aâask you to talk about a section of your book, Requiem for the American Dream, where you talk about this famous Powell Memorandum that Justice Powell sent to the Chamber of Commerce and to others, major business groups, in 1971, where he said that business is losing…
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The Powell Memo: A Call-to-Arms for Corporations
From Bill Moyers: http://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations In this excerpt from Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer â and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explain the significance of the Powell Memorandum, a call-to-arms for American corporations written by Virginia lawyer (and future U.S. Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell…
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The Powell Memo – Full Transcript
Introduction In 1971, Lewis Powell, then a corporate lawyer and member of the boards of 11 corporations, wrote a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor, Jr., the Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The memorandum was dated August 23, 1971, two months prior to Powellâs nomination by President Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court.…