Corporatism

New Report Dismantles World Bank’s Myths On Agriculture

October 11, 2014 Anuradha Mittal, www.oaklandinstitute.org Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Neoliberalism, World Bank

In the agricultural domain for instance, the Bank claims to work to secure farmers’ access to land; however its direct financing to firms practicing large-scale and export-oriented agriculture is increasing pressure on land, water, and forests. In several countries, including Honduras and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), the Bank has directly supported investors that are grabbing land from local populations and that involve significant human rights violations.5 Recently, the Bank’s proposal to revise its environmental and social safeguard policies triggered concern that the institution will increase financing of projects that are damaging for the environment and local communities.6 The World Bank’s agriculture-related projects, which it claims aim to defend the interests of smallholders, in fact negate the potential of small-scale agriculture and agroecological practices to bring sustainable and inclusive development to countries.

Welcome To Coca-Cola Town: America’s Scary Corporate Naming Problem

October 7, 2014 Jonathan Zimmerman, www.salon.com Educate! Capitalism, Corporatism, Land Rights

Around the country, the names of our public spaces are being sold off to private donors. Brooklyn’s busy Atlantic Avenue subway station is now the Barclays Bank station; Chicago is selling naming rights to its “L” stops; and Cleveland recently named an entire bus route “The Health Line,” after receiving $6.25 million from the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. In several other cities, meanwhile, Kentucky Fried Chicken’s logo festoons manhole covers and fire hydrants. A few municipalities have sold ads on their police cars. And seven states now allow pizza chains and other companies to advertise on school buses. That’s good news for business, which can engage old customers and target new ones. And it’s good for our cash-strapped local and state governments, which can make long-needed improvements to crumbling infrastructures. Everyone walks away happy. Right? Wrong.

Privatized NHS – More Questions Than Answers

October 5, 2014 Charlotte Dingle, www.occupy.com Educate! Corporatism, health, Health Care, Privatization

“I know I don't fit into their boxes so I have to adjust my answers to fit into their boxes, which makes me feel like I'm lying,” Johnson sighs. “And it's only going to get worse. They are now talking about introducing a new system where you are assessed online without ever seeing a real person!” So what does this very public failure say about the future of the main source of increasingly privatized healthcare, the National Health Service? John Lippetz of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign, says, “Atos, Serco, G4S – all these types of organizations have been proved to be inadequate in many ways. The outsourcing that goes on to these types of organizations is there to provide them with profit. That's all they're interested in.”

‘Unreasonable’ Women For The Planet, Peace, And Justice

October 1, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Wars and Militarism

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Code Pink, sits down with Dennis Trainor, Jr. of Acronym TV on the eve of the largest Climate march in history to discuss the climate justice. “”If you care about the planet, you care about people, workers, immigrants, and you care about whether we are destroying the planet whether by polluting or by polluting through war, says Benjamin, who went on to describe the founding of Code Pink as a climate Justice group. “We started as a group of women who came together around the environment. We were called Unreasonable Women for the planet.” Benjamin and Code Pink have regularly disrupted Senate hearings on ISIS/ ISIL of late, but being part of the People’s Climate March is not something she would miss: “It is all interconnected,” she told me “and I don’t think we have the ability anymore to divide ourselves into these (separate) silos.”

BAYER Selling Chemical Plant, Toxic Event Feared

September 25, 2014 Staff, www.cbgnetwork.de Educate! Corporatism, Environment, health, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Coalition against BAYER Dangers (CBG) fears that the sale of Bayer MaterialScience will lead to negative consequences for the employees as well as a lowering of plant safety. CBG board member Jan Pehrke said: “Bayer's management is putting the wellbeing of workers below the demands of the financial markets. The great sacrifices of the workers in recent years have been for nothing. We are afraid that in the long run jobs will be destroyed and wages will be lowered – as was the case with many other divestments.” CBG board member Philipp Mimkes fears the implications for plant safety: “The future owners will be tempted to reduce costs for maintenance, labour and fire service even further. This will automatically lead to a higher risk of incidents. Since Bayer MaterialScience operates some of the most dangerous industrial plants altogether - after nuclear power plants -, this is of utmost importance for the general public.

#FloodWallStreet Dispatch Save the Climate or Save Capitalism?

September 24, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Canada, Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, People's Climate March, Protest

An exclusive Acronym TV dispatch from the Flood Wall Street day of action, featuring exclusive footage, analysis, and interviews with Clayton Thomas Muller (Idle No More), Tim DeChristopher (Peaceful Uprising), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Arun Gupta (Counterpunch), and Flood Wall Street organizer Goldi Guerra. *** The positive momentum generated by the People’s Climate Parade spilled over into a massive direct action on Monday. Flood Wall Street exceeded organizers expectations, with over 3000 people shutting down Broadway between Exchange place and the iconic Wall Street Bull for eight hours just one day ahead of the 2014 UN Climate meeting.

Driving American Politics Underground

September 9, 2014 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! America, Corporatism, Democracy, Environment

Politics, if we take politics to mean the shaping and discussion of issues, concerns and laws that foster the common good, is no longer the business of our traditional political institutions. These institutions, including the two major political parties, the courts and the press, are not democratic. They are used to crush any vestiges of civic life that calls, as a traditional democracy does, on its citizens to share among all its members the benefits, sacrifices and risks of a nation. They offer only the facade of politics, along with elaborate, choreographed spectacles filled with skillfully manufactured emotion and devoid of real political content. We have devolved into what Alexis de Tocqueville feared—“democratic despotism.” The squabbles among the power elites, rampant militarism and the disease of imperialism, along with a mindless nationalism that characterizes all public debate, have turned officially sanctioned politics into a carnival act. Pundits and news celebrities on the airwaves engage in fevered speculation about whether the wife of a former president will run for office—and this after the mediocre son of another president spent eight years in the White House. This is not politics. It is gossip. Opinion polls, the staple of what serves as political reporting, are not politics. They are forms of social control. The use of billions of dollars to fund election campaigns and pay lobbyists to author legislation is not politics. It is legalized bribery. The insistence that austerity and economic rationality, rather than the welfare of the citizenry, be the primary concerns of the government is not politics.

A Million Americans Demand Corporations Disclose Political Spending

September 5, 2014 Liz Kennedy, www.demos.org Organize! Corporations, Corporatism, Corruption, Money As Speech

The Securities and Exchange Commission just received a million comments, by far the most they've ever received, demanding that they protect investors and the public interest by requiring corporations to disclose their political spending. This mandate comes as corporate dark money is flooding into our system, empowering the donor class at the expense of the rest of us. Millions of dollars from publicly traded companies have already been spent in federal and state elections since Citizens United. Unions are required to disclose their political spending to the Department of Labor but there's no similar rule covering the new corporate political spending. The SEC has broad authority to act on corporate disclosure when doing so is in the public interest or in the interest of investors.

Beyond The People’s Climate March

September 4, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report 350.org, Climate Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Environment, Green party, People's Climate March

In two weeks the Peoples Climate March in New York, organized by 350.org, is expected to draw as many as 200,000 people. The march is to take place only days before a special UN meeting called by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss the November 2015 U.N. Climate Conference in Paris. Christopher Hedges has called this march a “last gasp of climate change liberals;” and “a climate themed street fair.” Our only hope, according to Hedges, “comes from radical groups descending on New York to carry out direct action, including Global Climate Convergence and Popular Resistance.”

Coca-Cola Forced To Abandon $25 Million Project In India

September 3, 2014 India Resource Center, www.indiaresource.org Resist! Coca Cola, Corporatism, India, Water

The Coca-Cola company has been forced to abandon a $25 million newly built bottling plant in Mehdiganj, Varanasi, India as the result of a sustained campaign against the company's plans. The $25 million plant - which was a significant expansion to its existing plant in Mehdiganj - had already been fully built and the company had also conducted trial runs, but could not operate commercially as it did not have the required permits to operate. Coca-Cola required permissions, or "No Objection Certificate (NOC)", from the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) - the national groundwater regulatory agency, and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) - the statewide pollution regulatory agency. The Central Ground Water Authority rejected Coca-Cola's application to operate for its new facility on July 21, 2014, and had sought time till today, August 25, 2014, to announce its decision before the National Green Tribunal (NGT), India's green court. Somehow having learnt that its application had been rejected, in order to save itself major embarrassment, Coca-Cola sent a letter to the CGWA on Friday, August 22, 2014 - two days before the rejection was to be made public on Monday, August 25, 2014 - stating that it was "withdrawing" its application.

Slaughter the Planet or Exterminate Capitalism? Time To Choose.

September 2, 2014 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.PopularResistance.org Resistance Report Climate Change, Corporatism, Environment, Finance and the Economy

So, in addition to destroying the ecosystem and straining to hold up the house of cards that is the global Hyper capitalist financial system, we are thinking that things might get down right scary in a mad max kind of way so we might want to prioritize helping the victims in developing countries who suffer or will suffer the homicidal side effects of our lifestyle. But actually change our lifestyle? No, silly. That’s not on the table, is it? Question, and again, I am no expert on the subject, but is Capitalism compatible with the health and survival of all of the living things on this rock we call Earth?

Fastest Internet In US? It’s Chattanooga, TN

September 2, 2014 Daily Kos, www.dailykos.com Educate! Cable, Corporatism, Internet, Investment

Yes, you read that right. Internet speeds as fast as 1 gigabit gigabyte per second are the norm in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Not the spot you might have predicted, would you. Certainly not the place I anticipated would have faster, better internet than anywhere else in the United States, and one of the faster internet speeds on the planet. Not only that, but the fast internet is helping to lead Chattanooga out of the economic doldrums. [A] group of thirty-something local entrepreneurs have set up Lamp Post, an incubator for a new generation of tech companies, in the building. A dozen startups are currently working out of the glitzy downtown office [that was formally the home of Loveman's department store]. “We’re not Silicon Valley. No one will ever replicate that,” says Allan Davis, one of Lamp Post’s partners. “But we don’t need to be and not everyone wants that. The expense, the hassle. You don’t need to be there to create great technology. You can do it here.” He’s not alone in thinking so. Lamp Post is one of several tech incubators in this mid-sized Tennessee city. Money is flowing in. Chattanooga has gone from close to zero venture capital in 2009 to more than five organized funds with investable capital over $50m in 2014 – not bad for a city of 171,000 people. [...]

The Biggest Tax Scam Ever

August 31, 2014 Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com Educate! Corporate Welfare, Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Taxes

This is the reality of our political system in 2014: In what should be a titanic battle between multinational corporate power and federal power, our elected representatives are hardly putting up a fight. Obama has been a sharp critic of corporate tax avoidance. Yet the offshore corporate earnings stash has nearly doubled on his watch. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has unleashed blistering attacks on corporations like Walgreens that have threatened to renounce their U.S. citizenship for tax purposes. And he has said he's "ready to roll" on a vote for a (sure-to-fail) Democratic bill that seeks a two-year moratorium on inversions. Yet Reid has also been shopping a stand-alone tax-holiday proposal, rewarding multinational tax avoiders with a 9.5 percent rate. Reid's partner in this effort? Kentucky Republican Rand Paul – who's been courting right-wing billionaire David Koch.

Clear Demands Needed At People’s Climate March

August 31, 2014 Anne Petermann, www.dailykos.com Resist! Climate Change, Corporatism, oligarchy, United Nations

A big tent, as in, the circus is coming to town… But this tent is so big that it even includes organizations that support fracking and the tar sands gigaproject. Yup, they’re in the tent, too. Call me crazy, but I think that tent is too damn big. According to some of the organizers, as long as everyone agrees that climate action is needed, then it’s all good. But are all climate actions created equal? No. In fact, there is another entity called The Climate Group that is planning a whole week of activities around the Ban Ki-moon summit to call for “climate action.” Who is this Climate Group? They are a self-described “campaign” whose goal is a “low carbon economy.” Okay, so? Well, their idea of action on climate change includes many “solutions” debunked as false by the global climate justice movement, including carbon capture and storage, and other technologies that allow business as usual to bounce happily along while the planet slowly burns. This is not surprising since The Climate Group’s corporate partners include Duke Energy, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Greenstone, Nike and many others.

Ten Ways We Can Build A Better Economic System

August 27, 2014 Gary Engler, www.rabble.ca Create! Change, Corporatism, Democracy, Economics

For the numerous readers who asked: "But what can we do?" after reading my "10 reasons to smash capitalism," here are ten ways we can build a better economic system: 10. We can elect governments that represent people rather than corporations. This will require serious electoral reform and include laws to make it clear corporations are not people and therefore cannot participate in the political process. A government representing all the people would regulate corporations to ensure socially responsible behaviour and transform psychopathic capitalist monstrosities into democratic, social enterprises that benefit all. 9. We can build communities and organizations that encourage solidarity, compassion and altruism. These will include worker, consumer, housing and producer cooperatives, as well as institutions of government. People must always remain vigilant, especially while capitalism continues to exist, about the pervasive power of greed to destroy these communities and organizations. 8. We can promote and build a democratic economy in which social ownership replaces private ownership of communities’ means of livelihood. The people who work in them and the communities in which they are located should control economic enterprises.

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