The Corporate Grip On The Food System Is Leaving Many Americans Hungry Waking Times RSS Feed / WTStaff Philip H. Howard and Mary Hendrickson, EcoWatch Waking Times Agribusiness executives and government policymakers often praise the U.S. food system for producing abundant and affordable food. In fact, however, food costs are rising, and shoppers in many […]
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Serious Questions Being Raised About Extent of Corporate Control All Over World
At a time when increasing questions about corporatization trends are being raised in India, it is useful to know that the extent of corporate control over farming and farmers ( small and medium farmers, family farms) is being increasingly questioned almost all over the world, including the USA. A widely discussed account is that of […]
Corporate-Gov’t Collusion Has Given Us Blackouts and Food Shortages, Here’s How We Stop It
Corporate-Gov’t Collusion Has Given Us Blackouts and Food Shortages, Here’s How We Stop It Activist Post / Activist Post By Don Via, Jr. Over the past two weeks, and still currently ongoing in some parts of the country, an unprecedented winter storm swept through the United States. The ice accumulation overall created some particularly disastrous […]
Tucker: Limbaugh Fought Corporate Censorship For Three Decades
Tucker Carlson dedicated an important monologue to the late Rush Limbaugh Wednesday, emphasising that the legendary talk radio host has been fighting against censorship for his entire 30 year run. “Rush Limbaugh actually believed things, and believed them with sincerity. That was his secret. What he believed most of all was that America is a good and […]
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Corporate Communism
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Cuomo and Newsom symbolize the rot of corporate democrats — and the dire need for progressive populism
The governors of New York and California — the most populous states led by Democrats — now symbolize how slick liberal images are no substitute for genuinely progressive priorities. After 10 years as New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo is facing an uproar over revelations that his administration intentionally and drastically undercounted the deaths from COVID in nursing homes. Meanwhile, […]
India Shuts Down Internet Around New Delhi As The Corporate Takeover of Food Continues
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Why corporate power over American politics was laid bare after the Capitol Hill insurrection
Image Credit: Hightower Lowdown This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The second impeachment of President Trump, this time for inciting a riot, got a big boost when dozens of large corporations endorsed the effort. Amazon, American Express, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BP, BlackRock, Dow Chemical, Goldman […]
Big Tech, Corporate Media Smears WallStreetBets as Racist!
A post claiming to be from a Robinhood employee that has gone viral on Reddit alleges that the White House put pressure on the broker to halt buying of GameStop shares. Retail traders were left fuming earlier today when Robinhood and other trading platforms curbed buying of stocks that the Reddit community WallStreetBets has targeted […]
Corporate Donor Class Pushes Alejandro Mayorkas DHS Confirmation
The donor class is urging a quick confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will meet on Tuesday for Mayorkas’s confirmation hearing. The former Obama administration official has the backing of corporate special interest groups and billionaire donors […]
Lords of MMRDA bureaucracy and Reliance in Bandra Kurla corporate complex
One possible reason common people’s basic problems remain unsolved is that our politicians and bureaucrats live in such absolute comfort, unmindful of people’s misery. Take the example of MMRDA, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. It has a plush, shining modern office in the Bandra Kurla complex, the corporate district of Mumbai. Its top officials live […]
Janet Yellen made millions in Wall Street, corporate speeches
In addition to Yellen, Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee to be secretary of State, disclosed the clients he advised through WestExec Advisors, the consulting firm he co-founded with other Obama administration alumni. Those clients included the investment giant Blackstone, Bank of America, Facebook, Uber, McKinsey & Company, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, the pharmaceutical company Gilead, the […]
Why should not government and people hold corporate abuses to account?
Written by Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey Think about this: Should a government come up with laws to protect a corporation against liability lawsuits, or should it come up with laws to regulate corporations and empower citizens so that corporations can be held to account for any kind of abuses or exploitation? A […]
Many tales of corporate control over agriculture
In 1991, when I was 12 years old and in 8th class in my village high school, the Government of India led by the Congress Party launched new economic reform programmes. I vividly remember reading local newspapers, which carried news on the reduction of agricultural subsidies on seeds, fertilisers, electricity and irrigation. It also started […]
Charlie Kirk: Conservative Movement Is Now ‘Corporate-Skeptic, Pro-Worker,’ Thanks to Trump
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that the conservative movement is now a “corporate-skeptic” and “pro-worker” movement thanks to President Donald Trump — and that it’s not going away. “The conservative movement, thanks to Trump, is now a corporate-skeptic movement, a pro-worker movement, a free speech movement, a strict […]
Supreme Court Weights Corporate Liability for Child Labor on Cocoa Farms
The Most Revolutionary Act By Claire Kelloway Food and Power Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the world’s largest cocoa corporations are liable for child slavery in their supply chains. For 15 years, six citizens of Mali who were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms have sought legal damages from […]
Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the world’s largest cocoa corporations are liable for child slavery in their supply chains. For 15 years, six citizens of Mali who were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms have sought legal damages from Cargill and Nestle USA under a 240-year-old anti-piracy law. The […]
US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters
Spun out by the US Congress and Wall Street Journal, the cynical deception is part of an assault on Venezuela’s legislative election, in which even opposition politicians were sanctioned for participating. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US corporate media declared Venezuela’s legislative elections a “sham” before results were even announced, opening a new front in the […]
For the progress of the country, corporate economy must be reined in
(Report of the Virtual Meet of All India Peoples Front held on 5.12.2020) In order to save the corporate economy undergoing a period of deep economic crisis, the Modi government legislated three anti-farmer acts by passing them in a highly undemocratic manner in Parliament. Similarly, by creating anti-worker Labour Code, all the rights acquired after long struggles […]