Corporatism

Video: Lee Camp “Are Scientific Models Saying Revolt Is Our Only Chance?”

November 1, 2013 Lee Camp, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Video

Well, there’s a trend that seems to be steadily spreading across disciplines, genres, and peoples. That trend is a call for revolt from the current system that will without a shadow of a doubt pillage this globe until there’s nothing left, and according to my calculations, that nothing-left moment will occur in… February. This week alone we’ve seen this call from a pop culture icon and from a scientific model – neither of which are the normal places you hear call for revolutionary change. (“Scientific model” refers to a computerized model, not a hot chick dressed in a lab coat—But if that kind of science model were calling for revolution, then she’d be the woman of my dreams.) In an article by Naomi Klein this week, she describes geophysicist Brad Werner’s advanced computer model which addresses – these are his words – whether we’re f*cked.

Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History

October 31, 2013 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.truthout.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Government, Health Care, Human Rights

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called "Obamacare," may be the biggest insurance scam in history. The industries that profit from our current health care system wrote the legislation, heavily influenced the regulations and have received waivers exempting them from provisions in the law. This has all been done to protect and enhance their profits. In the meantime, the health care crisis continues. Fewer people, even those with health insurance, can afford the health care they need because of out-of-pocket costs. The ACA continues that trend by pushing skimpy health plans with low coverage and restricted networks. This is what happens in a market-based system of health care. People get only the amount of health care they can afford, rather than what they need.

Madison City Unanimously Passes Resolution Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership

October 30, 2013 David Newby, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, TPP

The Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement has been in the process of negotiation since 2008 (in secret). Countries involved are the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. If approved by Congress, it would be the largest so-called “free trade” agreement ever, comprising 40% of world trade. Since NAFTA, international trade agreements have been less about tariffs, customs duties and import taxes than about deregulating transnational corporations. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) takes this a big step forward. The implementation legislation will include not only the text of the trade treaty—but also any changes to federal statutes that might be in conflict with the TPP as agreed upon.

Protests Target Pimco & BlackRock Over Opposition To Housing Recovery

October 30, 2013 Nick Sifuentes and Amy Schur, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Housing

On Wednesday, October 30, 2013, homeowners and community supporters in a number of U.S. and Global cities will visit the corporate offices of giant money managers Pimco and BlackRock as part of an escalating campaign by homeowners, community groups and unions who are fighting for local principal reduction programs in Richmond, California and numerous other cities across the country. Fed up with inaction on troubled loans and BlackRock and Pimco’s opposition to the local principal reduction program called CARES (Community Action to Restore Equity & Stability) protesters will disrupt business at each location until they meet with senior officials about their attempts to intimidate cities considering local principal reduction programs, including the potential use of eminent domain. Both Pimco and BlackRock unsuccessfully sued the city of Richmond over its proposal.

Protest To Stop Further Desecration Of Burial Sites

October 29, 2013 Bahe' Katenaii, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights

Concerned Diné (Navajos) and other indigenous rights supporters will be holding a protest to expose Peabody's deliberate process of conﬁscating Indigenous History. The ﬁrst Cultural Review meeting for the Kayenta Mine Navajo Generating Station Permit which has been scheduled at the Museum of Northern Arizona on October 30, 2013 by the Arizona Bureau of Reclamation. This is the ﬁrst of a series of meetings scheduled to develop the critical structure for regulation and implementation of the protection of sacred sites in the mining and expansion areas leased by Peabody Energy. "With more community interest & support, Peabody can be stopped from desecrating more of the endless network of ancient dwelling sites. The less involvement by communities the more Peabody and their archaeologist (Black Mesa Archeology Project) will steal & proﬁt, because cultural and human rights of the antiquities aren't being enforced."

Hedges: “Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Have Destroyed Satire”

October 29, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.wordpress.com Educate! Corporatism, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Human Rights, Media, Occupy, Video

In this wide ranging interview, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Christopher Hedges talks with Acronym TV's Dennis Trainor Jr about Class War, Non violence, The Great Gatsby, and about the lost art of Satire. "Satire becomes destroyed in essence in the hands of figures like Colbert, John Stewart and others," Hedges asserts. "They will attack the excesses or the foibles of the system, but they are never going to expose the system itself because they are all millionaires, they are commercially supported. You have very few people (George Carlin was one) who will stand up and do it. If you do that, it is tough to make a living. Carlin maybe being the exception. But if you really use Satire the way Swift used Satire, to expose the English barbarity in Ireland because culture, like everything else in the society has been completely corporatized."

Neoliberalism: Government In The Service Of Corporations, Not People

October 28, 2013 Don McCanne, www.PNHP.org Educate! Corporatism, Health Care

Healthcare.gov looks to be having a disastrous launch. Conservatives in particular think this website has broad implications for liberalism as a philosophical and political project. I think it does, but for the exact opposite reasons: it highlights the problems inherent in the move to a neoliberal form of governance and social insurance, while demonstrating the superiorities in the older, New Deal form of liberalism. The general problem is that “More than 30 states refused to set up their own exchanges, requiring the federal government to vastly expand its project in unexpected ways.”

Our Invisible Revolution

October 28, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Strategize! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Finance and the Economy, Human Rights, NSA, Occupy, Revolution

When these ideas are shattered, the institutions that buttress the ruling class deflate and collapse. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface. It is a battle the corporate state is steadily losing. An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and live under the gaze of the most intrusive security and surveillance apparatus in human history. Half the country lives in poverty. Many of the rest of us, if the corporate state is not overthrown, will join them. These truths are no longer hidden. It appears that political ferment is dormant in the United States. This is incorrect. The ideas that sustain the corporate state are swiftly losing their efficacy across the political spectrum. The ideas that are rising to take their place, however, are inchoate.

VIDEO: Russell’s Brand New Revolution & Chris Hedges On Class War

October 27, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Resistance Report Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Occupy, Video

Resistance Report: While watching Russell Brand’s BBC interview, it is not hard to imagine two families in Middle America, neighbors, watching separately in the comfort of their own homes as Russell Brand does his bit and each nod in lonely agreement. “Yes!”, they are likely to say- “this Russell Brand fellow is right.” But family A has to work hard at a job they are made to feel they are lucky to have buying something, selling something, or processing something when, like their inner Lloyd Dobbler, they don’t want to buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, they don't want to do that. And Family B is doing the same thing. Both are trying to keep up with the Joneses, as they the expression goes. Family B is competing to send their kids to better schools and than Family A; and Family A is competing just as hard to beat out family B. They are each other’s Jones.

How To Do Corporate Research Online

October 27, 2013 Philip Mattera, www.corp-research.org Educate! Corporatism

Ongoing problems with corporate crime and misbehavior make it essential for progressive activists to know how to gather information on the way business operates. These days, all of us also need to be watchdogs against the excesses of corporate power. This Guide is designed to help researchers and activists gather essential information on any type of U.S.-based company, whether small or large, privately held or publicly traded. Given space limitations, the Guide does not contain sources that relate to specific industries or geographic areas. Also, aside from a few brief references to Canadian sources, there is no detailed discussion of information sources outside the United States. Given that most business research these days is done via computer, most of the sources listed are found online. Wherever possible, the recommended resources are free sites on the web, but the Guide also points out where certain valuable information can be found only on pay websites and subscription services such as Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw.

The Long History Of Privatization Failures

October 27, 2013 Ellen Dannin, www.portside.org Educate! Corporatism, Government

We need to own up to is that privatization experiments, based on ideology rather than evidence, have created disruption, neglect, and harm to vital public services and infrastructure - and those effects have undermined the private sector which depends on high quality public services. We seem to have forgotten that the public sector has long created the environment and resources necessary for businesses to prosper. There is a long history of privatization failures in the United States. Moshe Adler's research on privatization in the 19th Century shows a pattern of corruption, poor quality, and failure to provide services the public had paid for. Says Adler, of his study on street cleaning, "in the sixty years before New York City discarded it, the cost of contracting out was about half the cost of governmental production. It was discarded not because it wasn't cheap, but because it wasn't good."

Monsanto’s Very Bad Week: Three Big Blows for GMO Food

October 26, 2013 Ocean Robbins, www.alternet.org Create! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

It hasn't been a good week for Monsanto and the rest of the biotech industry. Just three days ago, Mexico banned genetically engineered corn. Citing the risk of imminent harm to the environment, a Mexican judge ruled that, effective immediately, no genetically engineered corn can be planted in the country. This means that companies like Monsanto will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country's borders. At the same time, the County Council for the island of Kauai passed a law that mandates farms to disclose pesticide use and the presence of genetically modified crops. The bill also requires a 500-foot buffer zone near medical facilities, schools and homes -- among other locations.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Building A National Culture Of Resistance

October 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Nuclear Energy, Poverty, Tar Sands

We are starting to see how the movement is in fact changing the political system without focusing on elections, but instead by focusing on the big issues of a failed economic system that creates inequity and puts profits before the people and the planet. An example is the extreme austerity measures, including threats to Social Security and Medicare, that need our attention. Building alliances and creating solidarity across the movement are critical ingredients to our success. In the end, we are confident that it is not who is in office, but the environment we create for them to operate in. We need to continue to protest when elected officials go off in the wrong direction – which is too often – but always build a mass national movement of communities across the country networked together and working to end the rule of money in each of its manifestations and to shift power to the people.

Petraeus Uses Academia To Push Profiteering From Healthcare & Fracking

October 25, 2013 Educate! Corporatism, Education, Finance and the Economy, Wars and Militarism

While Petraeus’ role in the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has served as the basis for protests over his CUNY professorship, the content of his course, The Coming (North) American Decade(s)?, has received less attention. Petraeus’ course syllabus does not mention the U.S.-led Iraq War, its estimated $3 trillion cost to U.S. taxpayers or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives lost. Rather, on the CUNY website, a course description promises that participants in the Petraeus seminar will “arrive at recommendations for America’s leadership role in the emerging global economy.” It also neglects to mention his connections to Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR), a New York–based private-equity firm whose portfolio includes billions of dollars of investments in industries such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), biotechnology and health care.

Why Washington Can’t Stop

October 25, 2013 Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Corporatism, Democracy, Wars and Militarism

In terms of pure projectable power, there’s never been anything like it. Its military has divided the world -- the whole planet -- into six “commands.” Its fleet, with 11 aircraft carrier battle groups, rules the seas and has done so largely unchallenged for almost seven decades. Its Air Force has ruled the global skies, and despite being almost continuously in action for years, hasn’t faced an enemy plane since 1991 or been seriously challenged anywhere since the early 1970s. Its fleet of drone aircraft has proven itself capable of targeting and killing suspected enemies in the backlands of the planet from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia with little regard for national boundaries, and none at all for the possibility of being shot down. It funds and trains proxy armieson several continents and has complex aid and training relationships with militaries across the planet.

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