Corporatism

Holder’s Legacy: Corp’s Too Big to Jail, Protection Of Killer Cops

July 18, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Corporatism, Defense Attorney, Eric Holder, Gentrification, Law, police brutality

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - While the Holder Department of Justice deemed corporations and their millionaire executives as “too big to jail” it equally pursued a position that millions of black folks were not too big to be eviscerated by the mass incarceration prison system. The Holder doctrine of “too big to jail is ethnically indefensible but totally consistent with his legacy. Holder, for his part is satisfied with his political legacy: "I think I go out having accomplished a great deal in the areas that are of importance to me. I'm satisfied with the work we have done." But in the end, Holder’s legacy will be summarized in one sentence: the Attorney General who waltzed with Wall Street robbers and exonerated the killers of two unarmed Black boys, George Zimmerman and Darryl Wilson, which triggered the first African-American mass resistance movement of the 21st century. Period.

Letter From Political Prisoner Rev. Edward Pinkney

July 13, 2015 Rev. Edward Pinkney, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Corruption, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Rule of Law

By Rev. Edward Pinkney. My name is Reverend Edward Pinkney. I am at Lakeland Correctional Facility, otherwise known as a prison, in Coldwater, Michigan. I am a victim of racial injustice and over-reaching corporate power in Berrien County, Michigan. I am an internationally recognized activist who acts and fights for justice for all, and I am the leader of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO). I was sentenced to 30 months to ten years. This is a death sentence for a 66-year-old man. I was accused of a crime I did not commit. Because I exercised my democratic right to petition to recall the Benton Harbor Mayor James Hightower, who supports the Whirlpool Corporation and not the residents of Benton Harbor, I was charged with five felony counts of changing dates on petitions!

National Plutocrat Radio: Corporate 1%’s Dominate NPR’s Boards

July 3, 2015 Aldo Guerrero, www.fair.org Educate! Classism, Corporatism, Elitism, Patriarchy, Public, Radio

For a public radio service, NPR is notoriously known for its lack of diversity within its staff, audience and guests invited onto their shows—problems that NPR has itself acknowledged (6/30/14). A new FAIR study finds thatNPR’s diversity problem also extends into the board of trustees of its most popular member stations: Two out of three board members are male, and nearly three out of four are non-Latino whites. Fully three out of every four trustees of the top NPR affiliates belong to the corporate elite. While a majority of the board is populated by NPR station managers with backgrounds in public media, the rest of the board members have strong ties to the corporate sector. This includes NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, who has an extensive background in commercial media, having held executive positions within E! Entertainment, MTV and VH1.

The TPP And Why The US Is Pivoting To Asia

July 2, 2015 Interview with Walden Bello John Tarleton in Indypendent, www.indypendent.org Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Free Trade, TPP

Interview with Walden Bello by John Tarleton in Indypendent - The TPP is not really about trade. It’s a really big push to deepen and solidify U.S. corporate control over every sphere of life. For people in the United States, the greatest concern is that the TPP will promote the export of jobs and will have a very negative impact on the environment because corporations as much as possible will try to weaken environmental laws in all of these countries. On our side of the Pacific, the great concern is that our governments are going to lose their power because Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms will give corporations the right to sue states that interfere with their push for profitability. These cases would be heard in secret tribunals staffed by corporate lawyers that will have the power under the TPP to overrule national laws.

The TPP – What You’re Not Being Told

June 26, 2015 Storm Clouds Gathering, www.stormcloudsgathering.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, fast track, TPP

By Storm Clouds Gathering - Under the TPP, if a country passes a law to protect its citizens or reduce pollution in a particular sector, a multinational corporation which is affected by that law can take that country to a tribunal. The ruling will be legally binding. It doesn't matter what people voted for. An example of what this will look can be found in Uruguay, which has been sued by the Philip Morris tobacco company. You see, Uruguay passed a law requiring particularly aggressive warning labels on cigarettes. These warning labels have been very effective. Smoking in Uruguay has declined by about 4 percent annually. Obviously that's bad for business.

We Want Our $25 Trillion Back! Audit & Recoup Extracted Wealth

June 25, 2015 David DeGraw, www.exit.media Petitions and Online Actions Banks, Corporatism, Corruption, Finanace and the Economy, Inequality

By David DeGraw for ExitMedia. We demand a publicly transparent commission to audit and recoup wealth that has been extracted from the US economy through corrupt practices. Preliminary estimates lead us to believe that at least $25 trillion has been extracted. To give some context, $1 trillion is $1000 billion. With $25 trillion, we can dramatically rebuild and evolve society for the benefit of all. “Lawmakers” and "regulators" who have received any compensation from companies they regulated or wrote laws for, before or after holding government office, will be barred from further government activity and be fined in an amount at least equivalent to past compensation for such activities. All offshore wealth will be confiscated and individuals will be fined twice the amount they hid, and they will be prosecuted based on theft laws.

Hospitals Mark Up Prices More Than 1,000 Percent

June 21, 2015 Staff, www.jhsph.edu Educate! Corporatism, health, Health Care, Single-Payer

By Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. The 50 hospitals in the United States with the highest markup of prices over their actual costs are charging out-of-network patients and the uninsured, as well as auto and workers’ compensation insurers, more than 10 times the costs allowed by Medicare, new research suggests. It’s a markup of more than 1,000 percent for the same medical services. “There is no justification for these outrageous rates, but no one tells hospitals they can’t charge them,” says Anderson, a professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management. “For the most part, there is no regulation of hospital rates and there are no market forces that force hospitals to lower their rates. They charge these prices simply because they can.”

Fast Track To The Corporate Wish List

June 18, 2015 David Dayen, www.prospect.org Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, fast track, Free Trade, TPP

By David Dayen in Propsect - Pharmaceutical companies, software makers, and Hollywood conglomerates get expanded intellectual property enforcement, protecting their patents and their profits. Some of this, such as restrictions on generic drugs, is at the expense of competition and consumers. Firms get improved access to poor countries with nonexistent labor protections, like Vietnam or Brunei, to manufacture their goods. TPP provides assurances that regulations, from food safety to financial services, will be “harmonized” across borders. In practice, that means a regulatory ceiling. In one of the most contested provisions, corporations can use the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) process, and appeal to extra-judicial tribunals that bypass courts and usual forms of due process to seek monetary damages equaling “expected future profits.”

Stop Fast Track!

June 17, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.flushthetpp.org Resist! Corporatism, fast track, TPP, Trade

By Margaret Flowers in Flush the TPP. The White House is working furiously with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to find a way to finagle passing a Fast Track bill. Republican Leadership is meeting with Free Trade Democrats behind closed doors to scheme. The media is rife with speculation about how they will pass Fast Track - voting on stand-alone Fast Track bills in the House and Senate, attaching Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) to other more popular bills, etc. It looks like the House will vote on Fast Track Thursday morning (June 18). They begin debate at 9 am EDT. You can watch it on CSPAN. We will be gathering outside the Capitol on the corner of Independence Ave and New Jersey Ave SE in Washington, DC at 7 am to catch Members as they drive or walk to the Capitol.

CNN To Be Paid By Corporations To Create News

June 9, 2015 FAIR, www.fair.org Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Media

By FAIR - CNN has announced the formation of a new unit that will not report the news. Instead, it will take money from corporations to produce content that resembles news but is actually PR designed to burnish its clients’ images. The name CNN gives to this mercenary enterprise? “Courageous.” Perhaps CNN anticipates courageously withstanding ethical criticism. As theJournal‘s Steven Perlberg notes, “These undertakings often raise church-and-state questions about the divide between the editorial and business sides of a company”–understandably, since the point of so-called native advertising is to create advertising vehicles “that feel like editorial work.” So advertisers will come to Courageous because CNN‘s “trustworthiness” and unwillingness to “blur the lines” will be transfered by viewers to advertising content that is “similar” to CNN‘s news.

Kevin Zeese Discusses The Trade In Services Agreement

June 8, 2015 Interview with Kevin Zeese Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Free Trade, TIPP, TISA, TPP

Interview with Kevin Zeese by Jessica Desvarieux in The Real News Network - People believe that a government that's transparent is going to be a more effective government. People have the chance then to have their input into the way the government's going, and people know what's going on in their lives and their futures. And this--actually, a couple of the documents leaked by WikiLeaks dealt with transparency. Interesting about the transparency in this agreement is it's another corporatization-only thing. Corporations under this agreement would be required to be told when a government is considering legislation or policy that would affect their business, at an early stage. So a corporation is told in advance, so it has a chance to help to write the legislation, help to shape it, make sure it doesn't hurt them, and really have an impact.

Is Blue Cross Blue Shield An Illegal Cartel?

May 30, 2015 Anna Wilde Mathews, www.pnhp.org Educate! Capitalism, Cartel, Corporatism, Health Care, Public Health

Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurers cover about a third of Americans, through a national network that dates back decades. Now, antitrust lawsuits advancing in a federal court in Alabama allege that the 37 independently owned companies are functioning as an illegal cartel. A federal judicial panel has consolidated the claims against the insurers into two lawsuits that represent plaintiffs from around the country. One is on behalf of health-care providers and the other is for individual and small-employer customers. The antitrust suits allege that the insurers are conspiring to divvy up markets and avoid competing against one another, driving up customers’ prices and pushing down the amounts paid to doctors and other health-care providers.

How Much Did Corporations Pay To Senate For Fast Track?

May 29, 2015 C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing, www.theguardian.com Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Free Trade, TPP

A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed. “We’re very much in the endgame,” US trade representative Michael Froman told reporters over the weekend at a meeting of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the resort island of Boracay. His comments came days after TPP passed another crucial vote in the Senate. That vote, to give Barack Obama the authority to speed the bill through Congress, comes as the president’s own supporters, senior economists and a host of activists have lobbied against a pact they argue will favor big business but harm US jobs, fail to secure better conditions for workers overseas and undermine free speech online.

Corporate Mass Media Shrinking: Less Readers, Less Revenue

May 28, 2015 Amy Mitchell and Katerina Eva Matsa, www.pewresearch.org Educate! Corporatism, Journalism, Media

Over the past two decades, major newspapers across the country have seen a recurring cycle of ownership changes and steep declines in value. The San Diego Union-Tribune was the latest example of this, as it officially changed ownership hands Thursday for the third time in six years. This most recent purchase came from Tribune Publishing Co. for the amount of $85 million (including nine community papers). Still waiting for a buyer is the 96-year-old New York tabloid the Daily News, which owner Mort Zuckerman put on the sale block this spring. But there seems to be far from a stampede of interested buyers. Steep revenue and circulation declines across the newspaper industry have left many newspapers struggling. Over the past decade, weekday circulation has fallen 17% and ad revenue more than 50%.

International Actions To Resist Commercialization Of Education

May 24, 2015 Veronika Pehe, www.politicalcritique.org Resist! Corporatism, Education, Neoliberalism

The slogan of the Polish students, ‘University is not a business’, thus resonates with the demands of their colleagues abroad. 2015 is not even half-way through, and already the year has seen a number of significant student protests in the Netherlands, Quebec, the United Kingdom, Macedonia, Chile, and Denmark, among others. Recent events at the University of Warsaw, sparked by the introduction of new Regulations of Study, thus join a larger movement which interrogates the nature and purpose of higher education in an era of increased commercial pressures on public services. Protestors have articulated different demands relevant to their local conditions in each country, but what unites these movements is a rejection of the commodification of education. The slogan of the Polish students, ‘University is not a business’, thus resonates with the demands of their colleagues abroad.

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