Tag: corporations
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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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Examples of the Inherent Corrupt Nature of Corporations
Hi, In 2004, Joel Bakan published a book titled: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Balkan argued that Corporations are inherently corrupt because they are legally bound to place profit over everything, even the public good. The book was turned into a successful film and a movement was launched. I agree with Bakan’s…
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Supra-Governments – “The Most Powerful Force on Earth”
Who needs conspiracy theories? Just read the Financial Times. Roger Altman is an American investment banker and a former Democratic politician. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from January 1977 until January 1981 and as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration from January 1993 until he…
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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.…
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UN Trade & Development Report 2017
Hi, The latest UNCTAD report is out. We have been warned. Full Report: http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1852 Foreword: In sharp contrast to the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world economy remains unbalanced in ways that are not only exclusionary, but also destabilizing and dangerous for the political, social and environmental health of the planet.…
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Who Controls the World? – A Study on the Complexities of the Global Financial System
James Glattfelder studies complexity: how an interconnected system — say, a swarm of birds — is more than the sum of its parts. And complexity theory, it turns out, can reveal a lot about how the economy works. Glattfelder shares a groundbreaking study of how control flows through the global economy, and how concentration of…
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A Critique on Corporations
There has been a lot of talk on the news about the recent oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico. However, most of the talk surrounds âwho to blameâ and the âenvironmental impactsâ. Very few people are digging deeper and questioning the ethics and morality behind the corporation responsible for the mess: British Petroleum, (BP).…