Corporatism

Obama Protested by More than One Thousand in Africa

June 29, 2013 Organize! Corporatism, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

President Barack Obama was greeted by more than one thousand protesters in South Africa. The South African government fired warning shots toward the crowd to disperse them. USA Today reported "Police fired rubber bullets and a stun grenade into a crowd of hundreds of protesters waiting for President Obama to arrive at the University of Johannesburg on Saturday." Trade unionists, students and other protesters felt betrayed by Obama, criticized the theft of Africa's resources, drones, keeping Guantanamo opened, expanding wars and enabling the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel as well as continued militarization of Africa by the United States and opposed Obama receiving an honorary doctorate.

Exposed: American Petroleum Institute and Keystone XL

June 28, 2013 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Tar Sands

API Spent $22 Million Lobbying for Keystone XL; State Dept Contractor ERM an API Member In President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan address, he stated that TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would only receive State Department approval "if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." As it stands, that means Keystone XL - which if built to full capacity would pipe diluted bitumen, or "dilbit" from the Alberta tar sands down to Port Arthur, TX refineries for shipment to the global export market - may likely receive Obama's approval.

After Two Months, ‘Moral Monday’ Protests Swell to Largest Yet

June 26, 2013 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Organize! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Worker Rights and Jobs

The popular movement in North Carolina led by the state's NAACP chapter and marked each week with civil disobedience actions known as 'Moral Monday' protests swelled to their largest number yesterday, with organizers saying that as many as five thousand people marched outside the North Carolina State Legislative Building in Raleigh. Later, nearly 120 were arrested after refusing orders to disperse by police. The latest arrests bring the total number to over 600 in the eight weeks since the protest movement began and occurred as those arrested in the first wave of protests faced trial at a nearby county courthouse. As the local Charlotte Observer describes, the latest 'Moral Monday' protest took "labor issues, women’s rights and economic justice as their themes for the week" and "demonstrators hoped to halt what many described as 'arrogant' and 'vindictive' policies that favored the very wealthy and caused great harm to the state’s poorest and weakest."

The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis

June 26, 2013 Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy

Thanks to a mountain of evidence gathered for a pair of major lawsuits by the San Diego-based law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, documents that for the most part have never been seen by the general public, we now know that the nation's two top ratings companies, Moody's and S&P, have for many years been shameless tools for the banks, willing to give just about anything a high rating in exchange for cash. In incriminating e-mail after incriminating e-mail, executives and analysts from these companies are caught admitting their entire business model is crooked. "Lord help our fucking scam . . . this has to be the stupidest place I have worked at," writes one Standard & Poor's executive.

President Obama Continues ‘All of the Above’; Renewable Energy Focus Needed

June 25, 2013 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org/a> Educate! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Fracking

Environmentalists warn that President Obama's 'climate plan'—announced Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University—does not contain the urgency required by the fast-spiraling crisis of global warming and climate change and that though some aspects were welcome, the overall approach falls well short of what's needed; critics say Obama's plan is unclear about exactly how strict these regulations will be. "A sensible climate plan," said Damon Moglen, climate and energy program director of Friends of the Earth, "would include a renunciation of the president’s “all of the above” energy strategy, which promotes biofuels, so-called clean coal, natural gas and dirty and dangerous nuclear power."

The Eternal Rebel: Ronnie Kasrils

June 25, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Strategize! Corporatism, Democracy, Human Rights

"And, you know, when I read that I was amazed at the similarity in South Africa when in 1976 young people, 12-year-olds, teenagers in the schools, rose against the apartheid police state, with all of the fear factor, including that of the myth of white supremacy, and were prepared to take it on in the streets and were prepared to die, and those who weren’t shot down were prepared to look for the organizational form to fight back and instead of stones to seek guns and bullets. The ANC was the organization that they turned to because it had always been the rebel organization. It had never died, it was always there and always strove to resist. So, fear, as we’ve seen, can keep people in check for many, many years. Decades. And there comes a time when the system breaks, when the weakest link snaps, and people suddenly lose fear and find courage and stand up. And that’s what we’re seeing.”

Protests Around the World are Keeping the Spirit of Occupy Alive

June 23, 2013 John Harris, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government

It is in the nature of protests that people are impatient for change. But all this is so huge that it will take decades to work itself out. Across the world, parties of both left and right will either be transformed or disappear; in more and more countries, protests will flare into life, and then go quiet. Ugly populism and the hard right could very well prosper; social democracy may spend a long time in retreat. For good or ill, it's going to be a very interesting century.

Nader: Corporatizing National Security is Fascism USA

June 23, 2013 Ralph Nader, , www.nader.org Educate! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, Surveillance

There’s big money to be made in moving government-owned functions and assets into corporate hands. Public highways, prisons, drinking water systems, school management, trash collection, libraries, the military and now even national security matters are all being outsourced to corporations. But what happens when such vital government functions are performed for big profit rather than the public good? Look to the many reports of waste, fraud, and abuse that arose out of the over-use of corporate contractors in Iraq. At one point, there were more contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. soldiers. Look to the private prisons, which make their money by incarcerating as many people as they can for as long as they can. Look to privatized water systems, the majority of which deliver poorer service at higher costs than public utility alternatives.

Autonomy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

June 23, 2013 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Create! Brazil, Corporatism, Democracy, Egypt, Finance and the Economy, Government, Human Rights, Türkiye, Worker Rights and Jobs

As the ongoing uprising in Turkey and the mass protests in Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil confirm, the wave of struggles that kicked off with the Arab revolutions of 2011 is still in full swing. However, it is also clear that, two years hence, the “dangerous dreams” of the Arab revolutionaries, Europe’s indignados and America’s occupiers largely remain unfulfilled. In Europe, the austerity mantra is still being uncritically praised and dutifully imposed by governments of the left and the right. In Egypt, Islamist forces have successfully managed to hijack the revolution by taking state power and suppressing its epochal promise of radical emancipation. In the United States, meanwhile, the bodies that once assembled on Wall Street seem to have dissipated back into their previous state of social atomization. In the present conjuncture, an old but important question arises — both for the movements that kicked off in 2011 and for the ones currently underway in Turkey, Brazil and elsewhere: what is to be done?

Cataloguing the Many Ways You Are Spied On

June 22, 2013 Staff, www.washingtonsblog.com Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

Now we know the government is spying, what is the extent of it. Here's a review of all the ways that the government, and their corporate partners, are spying on us. Our phones, our emails, text messages, Facebook and other social media, CCTV security cameras and a growing drown force, which will reach 30,000 in a decade. Then, there are all the corporate information gathering techniques; and the government and corporations -- which more and more look like one entity -- share information. Under the Patriot Act, the government has been collecting records on every phone call made in the U.S. -- that alone would have been shocking, but it is the tip of the iceberg.

Activists Converge on Canary Wharf, Proclaim: “They Owe Us”

June 21, 2013 Steve Rushton, www.occupy.com Organize! Corporatism, Finance and the Economy, G8

Last Friday, June 14, They Owe Us saw hundreds converge on Canary Wharf in London. Between corporate towers and in front of a large banner reading "CAPITALISM = CRISIS," a broad coalition of groups reclaimed the space to host public discussions, workshops, music and political performances. Until now, legal injunctions have prohibited mass public actions from targeting Canary Wharf, and the scene formed part of a backdrop of week-long actions against the G8 Summit being held Northern Ireland. Debt was one theme linking the broad coalition that coordinated last week's event. Occupy London activists combined with others focused on climate justice, human rights and opposing austerity. Input also came from UK Uncut, whose direct actions have been crucial in drawing Britain's public focus to corporate tax evasion.

McLibel Leaflet was Co-Written by Undercover Police Officer Bob Lambert

June 21, 2013 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, www.guardian.co.uk Educate! Corporatism, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Government

An undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald's, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees. The true identity of one of the authors of the "McLibel leaflet" is Bob Lambert, a police officer who used the alias Bob Robinson in his five years infiltrating the London Greenpeace group, is revealed in a new book about undercover policing of protest, published next week. McDonald's famously sued green campaigners over the roughly typed leaflet, in a landmark three-year high court case, that was widely believed to have been a public relations disaster for the corporation. Ultimately the company won a libel battle in which it spent millions on lawyers.

Assemblies Emerging in Turkey: A Lesson in Democracy

June 20, 2013 Jerome Roos, www.roarmag.org Organize! Corporatism, Democracy, Türkiye

Something quite amazing is happening in Istanbul. In addition to the silent “standing man” actions around the country, people’s assemblies are slowly starting to emerge in different neighborhoods across the city. As in Spain, Greece and the Occupy encampments before, the protesters in Turkey are starting to counter-pose their own form of direct democracy to the sham of a democracy proposed by Erdogan’s authoritarian neoliberal state. If there was ever any doubt, this shows how deeply intertwined the global struggles truly are. As the state launches its merciless witch hunt on protesters, activists and Tweeters, thousands of people are starting to gather in dignity in various public spaces.

Edward Snowden, National Security Industrial Complex

June 19, 2013 Pratap Chatterjee, www.corpwatch.org Educate! Corporatism, NSA, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism

It is no longer possible to determine the difference between employees of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the employees of companies such as Booz Allen, who have integrated to the extent that they slip from one role in industry to another in government, cross-promoting each other and self-dealing in ways that make the fabled revolving door redundant, if not completely disorienting. Snowden, who was employed by Booz Allen as a contract systems administrator at the NSA’s Threat Operations Centre in Hawaii for three months, had worked for the CIA andDell before getting his most recent job. But his rather obscure role pales in comparison to those of others.

Bono Defends New Food Campaign in Africa, Exploits Poor

June 19, 2013 George Monbiot, www.guadian.co.uk Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, Poverty

But this is worse. As the UK chairs the G8 summit again, a campaign that Bono founded, with which Geldof works closely, appears to be whitewashing the G8's policies in Africa. Last week I drew attention to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, launched in the US when it chaired the G8 meeting last year. The alliance is pushing African countries into agreements that allow foreign companies to grab their land, patent their seeds and monopolise their food markets. Ignoring the voices of their own people, six African governments have struck deals with companies such as Monsanto, Cargill, Dupont, Syngenta, Nestlé and Unilever, in return for promises of aid by the UK and other G8 nations.

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