corporations

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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.

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Sat, 17/09/2022 - 05:03
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731-1806), a renowned lawyer and then politician who served under four Prime Ministers as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years, has made an astute observation that still meaningfully resonates today: “Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, […]