Posts Tagged ‘corporatism’

OKC Rally against Citizens United Ruling, photos and thoughts

Today’s “We the People” rally featured some great speeches from activists local and national. Too bad there was such poor attendance — about 150, I estimate. Rev. Robin Meyers’ speech was very thoughtful, Rep. Pittman was like a preacher herself with some great motivational oratory(despite the unfortunate habit of calling the SCOTUS justices “justices of the peace”), and Max… Read the rest

SCOTUS redesigns flag

Enough! so says Keith Olbermann and most of the country

One of Keith’s better “Special Comment” rants.

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How do you have a war, especially The War, without politics?

This morning, Booman noted the otherwise un-noted irony (thanks to that famous liberal media!) of having war profiteer/Nazi collaborator General Motors sponsor Kens Burns’ documentary on PBS, The War.

Whenever PBS airs a big program/mini-series there is an announcement at the end. “Corporate sponsorship of Name of Mini-Series was brought to you by Name of Corporation.” This had unfortunate and

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Tar Creek biggest Superfund site

An Oklahoma travesty, via Joni:

May 2005 Engineer Update
In the 50-square-mile part of Oklahoma known as the Tar Creek Superfund Site, tainted waters run orange in creeks and streams, poisonous mountains of chat (mining cast-off) define the horizon, hundreds of dangerous and deteriorating open mineshafts dot the landscape, sinkholes constantly threaten, and children have high blood lead

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Uncapitalist Journal

New blog in town:

Here at the UnCJournal, our team of writers will bring you news, commentary, and analysis on topics such as:

  • Income disparity
  • Privatization versus public ownership
  • The corporate erosion of democracy
  • Corporate crime
  • The IMF/WB/WTO
  • Workers’ rights
  • Unions and labor organizing
  • International solidarity movements
  • Free trade vs. fair trade debates
  • Anti-globalization perspectives and alternatives
  • Sustainable

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Exposed: the not-so mainstream media

Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America

A research team at Sonoma State University has recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. This is a

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I hate Wal-Mart and all it stands for

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