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Tue, 21/02/2023 - 22:03

By Ralph Nader The victims of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria need your help now. The surviving families and children and those rescued alive from the rubble are in serious danger in affected wintertime impoverished regions. Refugees in other places fleeing their war-torn homelands are also suffering. International aid agencies are grossly […]

The post Ralph Nader: Letter to Tim Cook, Other Ultra-Rich CEOs and Hedge Fund Titans appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Mon, 20/02/2023 - 22:01

By Brad Wolf / CounterPunch The Merchants of Death even own our sidewalks. That’s what we were told when we arrived at Raytheon Technologies in Arlington, Virginia, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, to issue a “Contempt Citation” for Raytheon’s failure to comply with a subpoena issued last November by the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, a People’s Tribunal scheduled […]

The post Our Freedoms Shrink as Our Military Expands appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 01:40
Starmer dislikes ‘constraint’ of Parliament and prefers speaking to people, while he likes obnoxious and anti-feminist hack Piers Morgan more than former party leader with whom he laughed and joked, then sabotaged. Does he actually listen to himself? Keir Starmer has told journalists that he likes Davos – the luxury playground get-together of billionaires, corporations […]
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Tue, 17/01/2023 - 02:48

A new study reveals that both Israeli businesses and multinational corporations have been instrumental in helping Israel restrict water access to Palestinians and destroy Palestinian water infrastructure.

The post New Report Charges Major Corporations as Complicit in Israel’s Water Apartheid appeared first on MintPress News.

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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 01:15
Left-wing president shows what can happen with political will to do what’s right for ordinary people New Brazilian president Lula da Silva is reversing the cuts to Brazil’s health programme imposed by right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro. Da Silva, who won the presidential election at the end of October despite extensive right-wing attempts to rig […]
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Thu, 29/12/2022 - 06:19

What’s to blame for mass cancellations and dysfunction at the formerly beloved Southwest Airlines? Long Island has a new Congressman-elect, Mark Santos. But nothing he told us about himself seems to be true. Ironically, his lies make him look worse than the reality of his hardscrabble upbringing. Supreme Court is allowing Section 42 to remain...

The post DMZ America #81: Southwest Airlines, Mark Santos and Section 42 first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.
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Wed, 14/12/2022 - 07:04


How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began

The corporate takeover of American politics started with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard of.

In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, a corporate attorney who would go on to become a Supreme Court justice, to draft a memo on the state of the country.

Powell’s memo argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups.