House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told corporations Monday that promising “bandwagon” support in the 2022 midterms will not remove the Republican Party’s memory of corporate participation in cheap labor and “runaway” inflation. Corporations are warming to the GOP after Republicans defeated the Democrats on Election Day across the nation. But McCarthy tweeted corporations will […]
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GOP lobbyists say corporate America is coming back into the tent
Campaign money flows to those holding power or those positioned to do so, and those in the lobbying business are incentivized to play up their role in facilitating it. But corporate America’s potential embrace of the congressional GOP is notable for what preceded it. Following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, many top corporations vowed […]
Progressives to Biden: If you want to be popular, take on corporate greed
Image Credit: EPA-EFE/DNCC Following Terry McAuliffe’s Tuesday night loss in Virginia’s gubernatorial election and amid the White House’s ongoing failure to enact redistributive legislation due to obstruction from Republicans and right-wing Democrats in Congress, progressives are urging President Joe Biden to fully embrace and use his executive authority to challenge corporate power, which they say […]
Corporate Dems flounder, advocates for Palestine prevail at local level
Virginia Who could have possibly predicted that Terry McAuliffe would blow it in Virginia? Thousands of people, maybe millions. There’s a right-wing bogeyman in every election, whether it’s death panels, flag burning, or CRT. To win you need a candidate strong enough to make that kind of scaremongering a nonfactor. A corporate moderate who has […]
Don’t believe corporate America’s ‘labor shortage’ bullshit. This is an unofficial general strike.
[embedded content] For the first time in years, American workers have enough bargaining leverage to demand better working conditions and higher wages—and are refusing to work until they get them. Here’s where that leverage comes from. After a year and a half of the pandemic, consumers have pent-up demand for all sorts of goods and […]
On Contact: The Anonymous Executioners Of The Corporate State
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the ongoing persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger. Judge Loretta Preska, an adviser to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced the human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Stephen Donziger to six months in prison on October 1 for misdemeanor contempt of […]
Chris Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
October 07th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron […]
The Legacy Of Corporate Democrats
[embedded content] On the show, Chris Hedges speaks with the author Robert Eisenberg about the legacy of the Obama/Biden administration and how it led to the election of Donald Trump. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency can be directly tied to the policies implemented by Barack Obama and Joe Biden during their eight […]
Corporate media myths about the chaos on Capitol Hill
If you get your news about politics from corporate media, you’re getting myths from journalists and pundits instead of clarity. At Thursday’s boisterous news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a reporter used the phrase “the two biggest spending bills of this Congress” to describe the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill (BIF) and the Democrat-only Build Back […]
Farmers And Civil Society Reject Corporate UN Food Systems Summit
The World Economic Forum and Gates Foundation are convening a food summit through the United Nations on September 23. Global farmer, peasant and fishing coalitions have called a boycott of the summit for its pro-corporate agenda, refusal to include the human right to food and exclusion of the intergovernmental body, the Committee on World Food […]
US Corporate Media Watch
In this feature, we interview Syrian-born journalist Richard Medhurst about state propaganda, the mainstream media, and U.S. imperialism. Roberto Sirvent: Can you share a little bit about the mainstream media’s coverage of Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan? What are some subtle and not-so-subtle ways that pundits and politicians maintain an imperial and colonial […]
How The Corporate Media Is Indoctrinating Americans With Fear And Lies
“Any one of them on their own, a writer at the New York Times or a host on MSNBC, is not going to do too much damage but when you have them as a chorus creating a narrative and it’s everywhere,” Scarry said, “unless you happen to be watching Fox or listening to conservative radio […]
Report Details Corporate Landlord Gluttony As Millions Face Eviction
Above Photo: Tenant rights activists leave prop body bags outside the home of New York State Senator Brian Kavanagh on February 28, 2021 in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. By striking down the CDC’s eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court “sided with rich corporate landlords […]
Corporate Media Politicize WHO Investigation To Vilify China
FAIR (10/6/20, 6/28/21) has previously critiqued Western news media’s credulous coverage of evidence-free “lab leak” speculations. One key factor in spreading suspicion that the coronavirus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is media’s early and ongoing politicization of the World Health Organization’s investigation into the pandemic’s origins. Much of this politicization weaponizes […]
Today’s Cardboard Cutout Corporate Heroes – Virgin Births All
August 21, 2021 By Larry Romanoff for The Saker Blog What do the following people have in common? George Soros, Elon Musk, Jeffery Epstein, Larry Page, Sergei Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales. Two things. One, they are Jewish. Two, they condensed from a spiritual mist to almost suddenly become household names, men of immense wealth whose companies exert […]
Collapsing Federal Corporate Crime Enforcement
Above Photo: Nathaniel St. Clair As the size and severity of the corporate crime wave surges, Congress is asleep at the switch. The mostly captive Capitol Hill Gang has sat on an antiquated federal criminal code, starved the budget of regulatory health, safety, and consumer/labor protection agencies, and let corporate crooks routinely get away with […]
Mobilising Against the Corporate Hijack of Agriculture and the UN Food Systems Summit
The UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), including a ‘pre-summit’, will take place in September 2021 in New York. The Italian government is hosting the pre-summit in Rome from 26–28 July. The UNFSS claims it aims to deliver the latest evidence-based, scientific approaches from around the world, launch a set of fresh commitments through coalitions of […]
The real reasons Ireland is against a 15% minimum corporate tax rate | View
A total of 131 countries representing more than 90% of global GDP are celebrating a landmark deal to overhaul the global tax system and increase their revenues to finance the costly post-coronavirus recovery. From Argentina to Japan, from Canada to Turkey, developed and developing nations are gearing up for a transformative reform. Ireland, however, has […]
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media
‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis.’ In his classic science fiction novel, ‘Foundation’, Isaac Asimov posited a future in which ‘psychohistorians’ could predict outcomes based on past history and the large-scale behavior of human populations by combining psychology and the mathematics of probability. Using ‘psychohistory’, the protagonist Hari Seldon discovers that the 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire […]
Kucinich Memoir Is A Moving Account Of The Battle Against Corporate Power
By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. July 9, 2021 | Educate! Above photo: On August 13, 1978, Dennis Kucinich defeated a recall vote. Celebrating at the Bond Court Hotel that night, left to right: Sandy Kucinich (the mayor’s wife), Frank Kucinich (his father), the mayor, Bill Casstevens of the United Auto Workers, Joe Tegreene (mayoral aide). Tim […]