Corporations are also using their profits to repurchase their own shares (thereby boosting stock indices to record levels), to finance mergers and acquisitions (which increase concentration, but not investment, and often involve cutting jobs)...
The presumption of mainstream economists and business journalists (as well as political and economic elites) is that the capitalist machine is the only possible one, and that it will work. Except it’s not: corporate profits have been growing (the red line in the chart above) but investment has been falling.
Ukraine war: the business with death (tags)
State-sponsored arms shipments cause corporate profits to skyrocket. That warlike conflicts boost the business of arms corporations is a well-known fact, but never in recent history have Western arms firms and corporations been able to enrich themselves so shamelessly from human suffering as in the Ukraine conflict.
The Neoliberal Indoctrination (tags)
Homo oeconomicus fades away as an economic theory along with market fundamentalism and market radicalism. Market failure and state violence epitomized by Enron's expansive accounting method and the aggressive wars in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria should be lessons.
THE CDC=CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (tags)
Someone posted information calling the CDC is a members of the We Commit Crimes Against Humanity Group. Well, the director of the CDC just confirmed it. CDC Director Lies to America Announcing Latest "Pandemic" - "Pandemic of the Unvaccinated" Confirming another CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
Corporate Tax Avoidance in the First Year of the Trump Tax Law (tags)
The tax breaks identified in this report are highly concentrated among a few very large corporations. Just 25 companies claimed $37.1 billion in tax breaks in 2018. That’s almost exactly half the $73.9 billion in tax subsidies claimed by all 379 companies in our study.
Congress Votes on Corporate Transparency Act (tags)
Washington DC - The House of Representatives scheduled a vote for 5:15 PM EST on the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (H.R. 2513). The bill reveals the true owners of "anonymous" shell companies to law enforcement.
Senate Bill Tackles Tax Evasion, Secrecy and Money Laundering (tags)
Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019, which would reveal the secret owners of shell corporations to law enforcement.
Financial Transparency Legislation Clears House Financial Services Committee (tags)
The bill would create a database of the real "beneficial owners" of American companies, potentially unmasking the true owners of thousands of shell companies.
Market Economy: The Superrich Endanger Democracy (tags)
It is easy to influence politics with a lot of money, and civil society is often just a nuisance. In the US, this problem is everywhere, but Europe is catching up.
IMF Warns of Global Financial Crisis Risk (tags)
For the second day in a row, the International Monetary Fund raised concerns of pending financial crisis. Ahead of the Spring IMF and World Bank meetings, the IMF released the Global Financial Stability Report, warning of "vulnerabilities" in corporate debt, house values and sovereign (country) debt.
Video: Chris Herdges in Eugene, 1 hr 24 min (tags)
"Weapons that don't work - against enemies that don't exist - with money we don't have" (Joseph Stiglitz)
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
The Global Justice Project and Human Survival: We're Badly Off Track (tags)
Something has gone seriously, seriously wrong.
Independent Media Crackdown and Global Social Movements (tags)
Current efforts by social media companies and Atlanticist think tanks to remove various alternative media pages are part of a coordinated corporate attempt to disrupt and destroy a "global intifada" of social movements, according to documents and data examined by this writer
Ronald L. Havner & The Sleazy Corporate Whores @PublicStorage RAPED ME! (tags)
Public Storage thoughtlessly and illegally devastated the life of a Los Angeles artist after they wrongfully auctioned off a life time of his photography and art work without blinking an eye, or giving the artist any kind of proper notification, something they legally have to do. What they returned to him was 4 boxes of old paperwork that was literally dumped into old disheveled cardboard boxes. That is what Public Storage considered his "Personal" belongings. The artist straightened them out. And I don't think he's close to being finished. A law suit against Public Storage is being now being prepared and will be filed in the near future.
5 Reasohns for UN Agreements Regulating Corporations (tags)
Countless cases of human rights violations by corporations show voluntary self-commitments of businesses cannot ensure social and ecological standards. UN agreements create rights for persons instead of companies.
New US Bills Introduced to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance and Corruption (tags)
This week a series of legislation was introduced in the House and Senate that takes aim at corporate tax avoidance and foreign corruption.
People in Uproar in West Virginia-US Public lands Hearings 2017 (tags)
Hearins are being held in populated parts of West Virginia as well as Virginia about acess to and ownership and profits from "public lands" There is an intense amount of natural gas fracking
video on police surveillance of activists (tags)
police surveillance
Fake lives matter! A satirical look at corporate personhood (tags)
This is a satirical look at the racist origins of corporate personhood. This article shows how a slavery amendment (the 14th) was used to grant constitutional rights to corporations, while at the same time, denying those rights to freed slaves and their descendants. CC-BY-NC-SA
Demonstrates how capitalism works using the board game Monopoly as an example. CC-BY-NC-SA
The Purse is Mightier than the Pen (tags)
The climate crisis is here now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn't want to know. What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient.
European Union Votes on Corporate Transparency Regulations (tags)
The European Parliament is set to vote on landmark corporate transparency rules known as "country-by-country" reporting.
Philippines: Duterte’s gravy TRAIN for the rich (tags)
The tax system in the Philippines is biased towards the rich. The Duterte government’s new tax reform package House Bill (HB) 5636 or the Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion Act (TRAIN), recently adopted by the Lower House of Congress, further burdens the poor – the unemployed and under-employed -- and low-income earners.
Trump's "Greatest Tax Reform of History" - A Windfall for Millionaires and Corporations (tags)
Under the Trumpian tax reform, the corporate tax rate could fall from 35 to 15%. The drastic reduction of the corporate tax will lead to lower tax revenues of $2 trillion in 10 years. "This is not fiscal policy but a robbery led by Trump."
The Sleazy Corporate Nazi Tactics of Public Storage (tags)
WARNING!! PUBLIC STORAGE USES AN ILLEGAL FORM CONTRACT THAT VIOLATE CALIFORNIA STORAGE LAWS, DEFRAUDING ALL THEIR CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS ON A DAILY BASIS.
Rapist Donald Trump and His Collaborators vs Successful Revolution (tags)
Successful Revolution Now!
New Report Finds Corporate Offshore Tax Avoidance a Growing Problem (tags)
According to a new report, secretive offshore tax avoidance practices are on the rise among multinational businesses.
A 99-page report "Election fraud" from Election Justice USA (tags)
Thanks to neoliberalism and expansion of the financial sector, checks and balances have been eclipsed by revolving doors. Wars become business opportunities. As the psychologist Rainer Mausfeld explains, propaganda can make facts and alternatives disappear.
Basta Ya, Brussels! British Voters Reject EU Corporte Slavestate (tags)
“The EU is an instrument of the ruling classes of Europe for the imposition of brutal austerity measures—most directly on the workers of Greece, of Spain, Portugal and Ireland, but also on workers in the UK, France and Germany….Prime minister, Cameron, has even proclaimed an “Age of Austerity” as his government imposes cuts of £210 billion, (€263 billion), equivalent to over 10 percent of Britain’s GDP, at the cost of the destruction of 20 percent of all public sector jobs, millions more in the private sector and the decimation of vital services.
Five myths about tax havens (tags)
When tax havens assist kleptocratic elites in hiding their cash with impunity, they don’t guard against corruption and despotism — they help perpetuate them. Tax havens provide an escape route from laws that is available only to a rich minority that can afford to use it...
Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, Pandering to the Corporate Whores of the Storage Industry (tags)
Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez must be getting large contributions from the Self Storage Industry since she is so willing to destroy her California constituent’s lives with her thoughtless, reckless, despicable, unconscionable, unethical and out right immoral plan, CaliforniaAB-983.
Donald Trump Criticizes Corporate "Inversions" During Presidential Debate (tags)
Donald Trump has criticized corporate "inversions" as "one of the biggest problems" facing the United States.
Indigenous Hispanic areas also Economic Rights US (tags)
Many Central and South American countries claim to have indigenous populations. This is true and false. Panama, Costa Rica Venezuela and Colombia have rates under 2% each. The substantialsubstantial populations are in
10 Shocking Realities of the TPP (tags)
Now we see why the US Trade Representative and President Obama wanted to keep the TPP secret for four years after it was ratified. It if had not been for a very aggressive fight against fast track trade authority in which hundreds of thousands of people participated, we would not see the text.
The Sleazy Nazi Tactics of Public Storage (tags)
Raping their customers on a daily basis has become a tradition for Public Storage who seems to be very proud of their sleazy reputation since they refuse to stop their disgustingly immoral and in most cases totally illegal and Nazi like business practices.
The Antiwar Presidential Candidates In The Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian Parti (tags)
In the Democratic Party 2 of the 5 major candidates are peacemakers. The Republican Party has only 1 of
Public Storage Reviews they don't want you to see... (tags)
I ENTRUSTED PUBLIC STORAGE WITH MY LIFE AND THEY BLATANTLY & ILLEGALLY RAPED IT AWAY FROM ME! ***BOYCOTT PUBLIC STORAGE***
Joe Biden to Challenge Hillary? (tags)
Biden
"Margaret Sommers" Public Storage’s Corporate Whore of the Year (tags)
Raping their customers on a daily basis has become a tradition for Public Storage who seems to be very proud of their sleazy reputation since they refuse to stop their disgustingly immoral and in most cases totally illegal business practices. And District Manager, Margaret Sommers is a fine example of the kind of criminal minded corporate whore it takes for this shameful position in Ronald L. Havner Jr.’s thieving immoral empire of sleazy self serving corporate scumbags.
Hillary Clinton: War Goddess, Corporate Shill, Anti-Populist (tags)
Clinton
Plans for Destroying Greece Stall (tags)
Greece
Congress Approves Greater Corporate Predation (tags)
trade
Donald Trump: Billionaire Con Man, Presidential Aspirant (tags)
elections
Putin Straight Talk v. Obama Doubletalk (tags)
Putin
Presstitute Media Support Anti-Consumer Fast Track Legislation (tags)
trade
House Rejects Fast Track Authority - For Now (tags)
trade
Senate Defeats Anti-Consumer Trade Bill Fast Track Authority (tags)
trade
I Was Raped By Ronald L. Havner & The Sleazy Corporate Whores @PublicStorage (tags)
Public Storage thoughtlessly and illegally devastated the life of a Los Angeles artist after they wrongfully auctioned off a life time of his photography and art work without blinking an eye, or giving the artist any kind of proper notification, something they legally have to do. What they returned to him was 4 boxes of old paperwork that was literally dumped into old disheveled cardboard boxes. That is what Public Storage considered his "Personal" belongings. The artist straightened them out. And I don't think he's close to being finished. A law suit against Public Storage is being now being prepared and will be filed in the near future.
LA Progressive: Ref Rodriguez—What the PUC Is Going on Here? (tags)
Rodriguez was PUC's Chief Executive Officer at the time the Better 4 You contract was awarded, and has been their Corporate Board Treasurer ever since.
The Sleazy Corporate Thieves of Public Storage: Ronald L. Havner Jr. , B. Wayne Hughes.... (tags)
The Sleazy Corporate thieves of Public Storage: Ronald L. Havner Jr.; B. Wayne Hughes; Edward John Reyes; Shawn L. Weidmann; and more, are ripping off their customers on a daily basis and literally ruining people's lives all over America. And they are doing this on a daily basis while law enforcement sits back and does nothing but watch while the sleazy blue collar multimillion dollar executives get even richer with the blood money of their innocent victims of their totally unlawful scams. Bait & Switch, False Advertising, Fraudulent Conversion, Illegal Auctions of their customers most cherished belongings. These people are blatant corporate thieves! And so far they are getting away with it. But not for long if one Angry LA Artist has anything to say about it.
Feinstein And Boxer Want To Make Vaccines More Mandatory (tags)
Senators Feinstein And Boxer Want To End The Right To Refuse Vaccines For Personal Belief
America's Abysmal State (tags)
America
Obama's Phony Middle Class Tax Relief Plan (tags)
Obama
Obama: War Criminal, Tyrant, Torturer, Racist, Corporate Tool, World-Class Thug (tags)
Obama
Obama
Video: Facing Down Corporate Election Greed, 25 min (tags)
On Election Day, a small California city took on one of the biggest corporations in America… and declared victory.
US Midterm Electoral Results (tags)
elections
elections
Media Scoundrels Wage War (tags)
MSM
Argentina's Christina Fernandez de Kirshner's UN Address (tags)
predatory capitalism
OECD Takes Strong Stance on Corporate Tax Avoidance (tags)
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a major proposal for curbing corporate tax avoidance yesterday. The OECD recommends international cooperation to prevent large corporations from avoiding taxes in the countries where they do business. The OECD plan comes amidst increased calls to crack down on corporate tax avoidance.
United Nations Small Islands Conference Fails to Address Major Debt and Tax Crisis (tags)
As the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) continues in Samoa, the agreed upon final outcome statement fails to address the major debt and tax crises facing many of the attending countries. According to the World Bank, 10 of the 30 most heavily indebted countries in the world are small islands.
Organized Labor in America Today (tags)
labor
Successful Protest at new Burbank Hobby Lobby on 4th (tags)
More protests scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
IMF Paper: Corporate Tax Avoidance Hurts Global Economy and Poor Countries (tags)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a staff paper noting that corporate tax avoidance negatively impacts all economies, but hurts developing countries the most. The IMF's release comes as the G20, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and United Nations bodies seek vehicles to diminish corporate tax avoidance.
Tax Extenders Cost Billions (tags)
The GE Loophole isn't just unfair to small businesses; it's a burden to us all. If the loophole is renewed, it will cost $62 billion over the next decade. That's money we won't have to fix roads, build schools, or find medical cures—the kinds of investments that strengthen our communities...
Southern California Mothers Fight Back Against Foreclosures for Mothers’ Day 2014 (tags)
On Mothers’ Day weekend, Los Angeles families rallied outside Wells Fargo bank to bring attention to the greed and corruption of the banks that continue to fraudulently foreclose on families across the nation.
Irresponsible RT International Bashing (tags)
Ukraine
Los Angeles Joins Nationwide March Against Mainstream Media #MAMSM (tags)
A nationwide rally on April 19, 2014 outside mainstream media studios raised awareness about the corporate control of mainstream media.
Here's some interesting privatization connections in regards to the LAUSD District 1 race (tags)
Epilogue to an article on the forces of neoliberalism meddling in the LAUSD District 1 Special Election that will run in the LA Progressive.
Supreme Court Rules for Big Money (tags)
money power
Alternative Trade Mandate, 20pp (tags)
Trade needs a new vision and should serve the public interest, communities, farmers, workers and the poor, and not only corporate profit interests. Communities should have the right to food sovereignty and to protect themselves from the ravages of financial deregulation & GMOs.
Unprecedented Inequality Under Obama (tags)
class war
net neutrality
NAFTA's Deplorable Legacy (tags)
NAFTA
NATO's propaganda outlet for progressives - The Guardian's board members (tags)
It is completely disingenuous for anyone to suggest that the Guardian reports on Edward Snowden's revelations are much more than a carefully managed propaganda exercise deployed in the internal power struggle of the US-Anglo elite about how best to manage their declining global power and influence. Likewise, it is absurd to suggest that the Guardian editors are implementing a "publish and be damned" policy, as Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald has suggested, when it is inconceivable that their editorial policy on publishing Edward Snowden's material will not have been closely coordinated on the basis of the Board's relations with colleagues in the British government, in British intelligence and in the US-Anglo corporate sector.
Corporate Taxes in America (tags)
taxes
anti-war
Get Ready for the 2014 Trade Tsunami: Lori Wallach (tags)
2014 could be Fast Track’s Waterloo. But between this prospect and reality lies a knock-down drag-out battle that will be quickly engaged with the dawn of the new year. Get ready.
Beltway Bandit Named Senior Obama Adviser (tags)
imperialism
The Corporate Tax Rate Debate, 30pp (tags)
Lower taxes on corporate profits not linked to job creation
Representatives Doggett and DeLauro Introduce Legislation to End Sequestration and Corpora (tags)
Rep Doggett introduced a replacement to the sequester today which would make it harder for corporations to use tax havens.
Corporate power grab of Trans-Pacific Partnership clearer, but opposition building (tags)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is crammed with corporate giveaways, confirmed by WikiLeaks publishing the intellectual property chapter.
TPP
The Super Rich Reinvent U.S. Capitalism (tags)
As U.S. corporate profits soar to record highs, food stamps for the neediest were quietly cut. The politicians who are demanding endless cuts to social programs — Democrats and Republicans alike — insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.
The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage (tags)
In one of comedian Chris Rock’s routines, he observes: “You know what that means when someone pays you a minimum wage? You know what your boss is trying to say? ‘Hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.’”
Protest Underscores Continuing Privatization of Oregon Schools (tags)
The Oregon Business Association (OBA) held its annual Statesman Dinner on October 17 to honor the Statesman of the Year. The event was fraught with anomalies, not least of which was the fact that the award went to Sue Levin, the Executive Director of Stand for Children Oregon.
Washington Brinksmanship Resolution (tags)
class war
Nestle: Global Water Predator (tags)
water
The UAW Takes One Step Forward, and One Backward (tags)
Trying to rebound off the ropes, where it has been pummeled for the past several decades, The United Auto Workers (UAW) has launched an aggressive organizing campaign in the South, in line with an AFL-CIO resolution emphasizing organizing there, where unionization rates are weak across the board.
At the AFL-CIO Convention, Leaders Ask: What Direction for Labor? (tags)
The acknowledgment of Labor’s existential crisis and the recognition that something must be done to resolve it is the key issue at the AFL-CIO’s four-day quadrennial convention in Los Angeles. The urgency of the situation has compelled Labor’s top officials to experiment in a search for solutions.
Inculcating stupidity: Syria and Edward Snowden (tags)
The Edward Snowden affair and the subsequent media campaign in the Guardian and the Washington Post and other NATO psy-warfare media outlets coincide with the shamelessly deceitful media campaign justifying a military assault against the government of Syria and thus too against the Resistance alliance of Syria, Iran and Hizbollah contesting the Occupation of Palestine. Obviously, it is too much to suggest that the Edward Snowden affair was deliberately contrived so as to provide a progressive propaganda alibi to corporate and alternative media advocating yet another imperialist aggression – this time against Syria. For people outside North America and Europe, the internal spat within the West's ruling élites offers little of interest. Very clearly, almost the entire Western corporate and alternative media network operates on the basis of psychological warfare criteria ultimately at the service of the imperialist tendencies of their countries' societies and the aggressive élites that control them. Like that of their corporate counterparts, the role of the West's supposedly alternative or progressive media, and the similarly funded non-governmental sector, is to provide a moral alibi for their countries' imperialist crimes against humanity.
What Can We Learn from 25 Years of Jobs with Justice? (tags)
It’s no secret that the last 30 years have seen a brutal corporate assault on U.S. workers. Incomes and union membership rates have plummeted, unemployment is soaring, and the two corporate parties have joined forces to go after our previously untouchable historic gains.
Obama's Grand Bargain 2.0 (tags)
class war
Three things nobody can avoid: Death, taxes and corporate lies (tags)
Dozens of the biggest corporations in the U.S. paid no taxes in years in which they racked up huge profits — taxes paid by Corporate America are so low that individuals account for eight times more in tax revenue than businesses.
David Curtis launches campaign for Sec. of State, California (tags)
David Curtis launches his campaign for Secretary of State, California at the Mayflower Club in North Hollywood.
Villaraigosa: The Myth of The Progressive Mayor (tags)
While Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa disappointed supporters and failed to deliver any progressive policies whatsoever, he was hardly a failure to those he really serves. Indeed, for developers, real estate tycoons, billionaires, and school privatization profiteers, Villaraigosa's eight year reign was a smashing success.
Controlling the Message: Targeting Iran (tags)
Iran
Obama's New Climate Plan (tags)
fraud
Lynne Stewart Denied Compassionate Release (tags)
police state
Corporate America Loves Jason Furman (tags)
class war
IRS Scandal: More Than Meets the Eye (tags)
tyranny
class war
Obama's War on Social America (tags)
injustice
A Curious New York Times Article on Teacher Evaluations (tags)
A recent New York Times article, “Curious Grade For Teachers: Nearly All Pass,” finds incredulous the idea that, “In Florida, 97 percent of teachers were deemed effective or highly effective in the most recent evaluations.” The author goes on to cite similar percentages in other states and concludes: “The teachers might be rated all above average, like students in Lake Wobegon, for the same reason that the older evaluation methods were considered lacking.” In other words, the teachers score well because the measuring standard is flawed. And this conclusion is reinforced by the observation that teachers’ high marks were achieved “even when students were falling behind.”
Regime Change Begins at Home (tags)
fascism
WPFW needs a home, not scare tactics about a corporate takeover (tags)
Some WPFW programmers are making an underhanded power play by framing a new lease as a corporate takeover
Detroit Citizen’s Prepare to Fight Their Corporate Master (tags)
Fresh from shoving his “Right to Work for Less” legislation down the throats of Michigan’s workers, Governor Rick Snyder has grown bolder in pursuing a corporate agenda. He has now appointed Kevyn Orr of Jones Day law firm to act as an Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) of Detroit.
Paul Ryan's At It Again (tags)
class war
Harvard
More Controversial Obama Appointments (tags)
Obama
AFL-CIO’s Own Oil Disaster (tags)
With less than transparency, the AFL-CIO just issued a statement endorsing “expanding the nation’s pipeline system.” Although it did not explicitly endorse the Keystone XL pipeline, the labor federation nevertheless managed to extend its blessing to the project while hiding behind vague generalities. However, the logic of its position is unambiguous: the federation is in favor of extending pipelines in general and without qualification; the Keystone XL is a pipeline. Therefore logic compels us to infer that the federation supports the extension of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Corporate Culture is a Dog and Pony Show (tags)
Every CEO is a little Caesar.
‘Transatlantic Partnership’ intended to duplicate secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (tags)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11-country trade negotiation intended to go well beyond NAFTA, appears to the be model for proposed United States–European Union trade agreement.
The Great Tax-Cut Experiment and Corporate Taxes as % of Profits (tags)
Comparisons with Other Countries: Americans pay a smaller proportion of total income in taxes than do people in any other advanced capitalist economy. as in Western European countries.
Robert D. Skeels: a community candidate for LAUSD School Board (tags)
Bloomberg's $1 Million for the right-wing Coalition for School Reform's corporate slush fund insults District 2 voters. Our community deserves self determination free from outside millionaire interference.
America's Deplorable State of the Union (tags)
class war
The Argument for Amnesty: An Immigration Policy That Works for All (tags)
Millions experience the repressive nature of the U.S. immigration system on a daily basis, lifting its need for reform to a level of urgency. And fixing this broken program is integral to building the unity among U.S. workers that is required to challenge corporate America’s attacks on our wages, rights, public social services, and living conditions.
Social Inequality in America (tags)
injustice
Open Letter to New York Times Editors (tags)
NYT
class war
class war
New York Times Fiscal Cliff Duplicity (tags)
class war
Fiscal Cliff Doublespeak Duplicity (tags)
class war
Defeating “Right to Work” (tags)
The passage in Michigan of the anti-worker legislation grotesquely misnamed “Right to Work” (RTW) should be putting the entire nation on red alert. The downward pressure on the standard of living such bills unleash on the vast majority extend well beyond the union ranks. The bill’s success in Michigan, a pivotal state for organized Labor, indicates the unfolding of a national campaign by RTW’s backers.
Money can so easily change circumstances. Just a little bit can help ease the stress of worrying about how the rent or mortgage will be paid on any given month. A small amount extra can make the difference between getting your kid what they need for school or not, like a new or even used computer or some school clothes. With just a few extra in the way of cash, there may not have to be the monthly juggling act of figuring which bills to pay and which to put off. And making up such seemingly miniscule increments of ground regarding getting current on bills and/or debt can really help take a load off a person's mind, if only until the next paycheck. Most of us have been there, and if not probably will at some point or another in life.
World Bank’s call for slowing global warming ignores own role (tags)
The World Bank is a key organization in the concatenation of processes that has brought the world to the brink of catastrophic climate change. To issue a report on the likely future destruction to be wrought by global warming without acknowledging its own role is beyond chutzpah.
A tale of two elections: Venezuelan accountability and U.S. irregularities (tags)
Venezuelan voting machines have verifiable printouts, all parties participate in vote-security preparations and results are available minutes after the polls close. Compare that with U.S. elections that feature voter suppression and unaccountable voting machines.
Grand Bargain Betrayal Coming (tags)
class war
Money Party Wins US Election (tags)
elections
Vote Independent or Stay Home (tags)
elections
Greens
class war
America's Sham Electoral Process (tags)
elections
Progressive Portal: www.alicelaw.org (tags)
Alicelaw.org is a progressive portal bringing together possible and concrete bills and laws striving for labor and environmental justice. Alicelaw.org is a vital counterweight to the notorious ALEC that for decades normalized rightwing, anti-labor and anti-environment laws.
Hypocrisy not Democracy in America (tags)
tyranny
Corporate Media's War on Public Education (tags)
education
Chicago: America's Epicenter of Resistance (tags)
education
Stealth Corporate Coup d'Etat (tags)
coup
Will 2012 be the Final Election of Lesser Evilism? (tags)
Just when the Obama campaign couldn’t appear any less inspiring, Paul Ryan was put forth as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Suddenly team Obama was supplied with enough political munitions to scare every last American over the possible Ryan destruction of Medicare, Medicaid, cuts to Social Security and the various other evils inherent in his proposed national budget. Consequently, many Liberals and Leftists across the spectrum are now focused on preaching the horrors of a Republican presidential victory and thus the necessity of re-electing Obama.
Paul Ryan's Socially Destructive Agenda (tags)
class war
Israel's Neoliberal Hammer Stikes (tags)
Israel
GLP Expands Safety Net from Soc Sec & Public Assistance in Times of Economic Uncertainty (tags)
While the establishment Republicans and Democrats are dependent on corporations for lobbyist funding and thus return the favor by rewarding corporations with taxpayer subsidies, the Green Liberty Party is immune to the disease of corporate dependency.
Inequalities, Taxes, and More Inequalities (tags)
Thanks to Occupy, most working people are well aware of the growing inequalities in wealth. But for those who lack the specifics, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich provides a useful overview: “…the rich have been getting a larger and larger portion of total income. From 9 percent in 1980, the top 1 percent’s take increased to 23.5 percent by 2007. CEOs who in the 1970s took home 40 times the compensation of average workers now rake in 350 times.” (“Confessions of a Class Warrior,” August 22, 2010).
Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution (tags)
The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good.
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact more draconian than NAFTA (tags)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is intended to be a new floor in the ongoing effort to lock in the domination of industrialists and financiers through the multi-national corporations that they control.
Climate Change and the Next U.S. Revolution (tags)
The U.S. heat wave is slowly shaking the foundations of American politics. It may take years for the deep rumble to evolve into an above ground, institution-shattering earthquake, but U.S. society has changed for good.
A medieval present of austerity, a future of feudalism (tags)
Financiers can’t tolerate losses flowing from their own greed and reckless gambling. Their solution is to have the state guarantee their stratospheric profits, bonuses and salaries. Governments can only do so through extracting money from their citizenry and facilitating the upward flow of wealth within corporate structures.
Opponents of Corrupt "Trade" Agreement Stage March, Rally July 7 (tags)
About 200 opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the so-called "trade" agreement that has been negotiated in secret between government and corporate representatives, marched on the Bayfront Hilton Hotel in San Diego July 7 during the most recent round of TPP talks. The march and rally finished a week of events protesting the secret negotiations of a corporate-welfare treaty under the guise of "free trade."
UK Democracy in Terminal Decline (tags)
UK
TPP: A Trade Deal from Hell (tags)
trade
Socialist Party Candidate Alexander Calls Obamacare Another Corporate Giveaway (tags)
Obama’s policy was based on the original sin of allowing the pharmaceutical companies off the hook. He then followed this up by pledging public funds to subsidize junk healthcare plans, coercing Americans into purchasing these plans and silencing the voices of single-payer healthcare advocates. Obamacare is not healthcare reform; it is just another corporate giveaway by the Obama administration.
Stepped Up Russia Bashing (tags)
anti-war
The U.S. Labor Movement at the Crossroads, in the Crosshairs (tags)
The labor movement had better do some deep soul searching, and fast. Although the defeat in Wisconsin is the horrible end to a local drama, the corporate winners hope to turn their victory into the beginning chapter of a national novel.
NAFTA and European Union: Different sides of the Atlantic but same function (tags)
The logic of the multi-national euro currency is tighter economic integration and loss of popular sovereignty.
Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre (tags)
Syria
Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream (tags)
"The first step toward public ownership is recognizing that it is not the radical departure most imagine it to be. Two of the most cost-effective health providers in the United States—one a far-reaching insurance system, Medicare; the other a direct hands-on healthcare delivery system, the Veterans Administration—are run by the government.."
Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander wants term limits for Congress and SCOTUS (tags)
U.S. Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander says, “It is time to amend the U.S. Constitution with term limits on Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court to end the monopoly the Democrats, Republicans and big corporations have on the political process in Washington DC.”
The California 2012 June Primary Pre-Election Statement by Stewart Alexander (tags)
The California 2012 June Primary pre-election statement by Stewart Alexander is also available on the website of the California Secretary of State.
summit
Republican Paul Ryan's Budget: Cruel and Unusual Punishment (tags)
class war
Why Blade Runner? Your Thoughts and Memories Are Not Your Own (tags)
While we may not have been directly implanted with Eldon Tyrell's niece's memories, our DNA reeks of Horatio Alger and our own bootstraps.
Justice on Trial: Lynne Stewart's Appeal (tags)
police state
BTL:Obama Plan to Reform Corporate Tax Code Fails to Shift Larger Tax Burden onto Big Busi (tags)
Interview with Chris Rude, political economist and activist, conducted by Scott Harris
Corporate Tax Rate Reduction Proposals--Are Some "Persons" Better Than Others? (tags)
If history holds true, corporations will continue to get their tax reductions and their write-offs. And "close the loopholes" hoopla can be saved for the next election.
STOP A "NAFTA OF THE PACIFIC!" RALLY VS SECRET NEGOTIATIONS HELD IN SOFITEL HOTEL IN LA (tags)
As Trade negotiators from throughout the Pacific Rim are gathering in Sofitel Luxury Suites, Los Angeles, activist to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement, groups opposed to the “NAFTA of the Pacific picketed outside the hotel in Beverly Hills. Trade negotiators from nine countries that includes the the U.S. to Vietnam are pressing for a NAFTA-style deal that encourages offshoring, expands downward corporate pressure on labor and environmental standards, raises drug prices, and bans "Make it in America," among other problems. STOP THE FTAA The protest dubbed as RALLY TO STOP A "NAFTA OF THE PACIFIC!" was sparked because of the negotiations are being done out of the public eye, trade ministers and corporate lobbyists (over 600 of ...whom have certified "corporate adviser" status). Protestors asked : “will this become a "NAFTA of the Pacific?"
What's Left for the Left? Building a Blue-Green Coalition (tags)
To build a strong electoral base for the Left, Green Party activists can build coalitions to pass ranked choice voting in cities throughout LA County, elect Greens to every non-partisan office - from neighborhood council to union leadership - and strategically support anti-war progressive Democrats running for state and federal office. From the ground up, we must build a diverse Green Party to protect our planet beyond the age of empire.
anti-war
Obama's Failed State of the Union (tags)
Obama
NPR and PBS Anti-Iranian Propaganda (tags)
media
Handbook on Israeli Apartheid (tags)
Israel
Wrecking America's Postal Service (tags)
corporatism
Akbayan Youth Supports Occupy Wall Street Movement (tags)
Akbayan Youth applauds and supports Americans who have decided to occupy various centers of corporate greed in America, most notably Wall Street in New York. They represent the voices of poor and middle class Americans – 99% of American society – who demand that corporations shoulder the burden of salvaging the economy. We view the spontaneous and peaceful actions in New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and other major cities as an inspirations for our own struggles in the Philippines.
Banker Occupation and Europain (tags)
class war
Coalition of the disaffected (tags)
Occupy Wall Street represents our social nature ("We are bound to one another like the waves of the sea" Norbert Elias). Occupy represents an alternative to unbridled competitiveness and commodification (You can make fish soup out of an aquarium but .
Greg Palast Presents "Vultures’ Picnic" in San Diego (tags)
Though Greg Palast presented the manuscript of his book "Vultures' Picnic" to his publisher well before the Occupy movement started, when he spoke in San Diego November 15 to promote the book he made the line, "This is why we occupy," the refrain of his speech. Palast framed his tales of corporate greed and government enabling into a brief of support for the Occupy movement and its challenge to the "1 percent."
Bipartisan Deal to Slash Medicare and Medicaid (tags)
class war
Coming: Big Austerity Cuts (tags)
class war
class war
Those who criticize the Occupation Movement see it and everything else as a product but what the OM is is process.
A Warning To The Economic And Political Elites: Listen Now (tags)
.... this is the beginning of an American revolt. Before considering occupation, we tried other avenues: elections, lobbying, petitioning, email campaigns, telephone campaigns, marches, rallies -- but they were ineffective..... We know that decades of the expansion of corporate power will not be undone with one occupation. Plans are being made by some of us to move "Beyond Occupation" to the next steps of building a movement that represents all Americans.....
National Public Radio's War on Free Speech (tags)
media
Solidarity to Occupy Oakland General Strike (tags)
The Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the union of the ground staff of Philippine Airlines, and Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines), the independent party of the working class in the Philippines, stand shoulder to shoulder with the Occupy Oakland protesters. We too struggle against corporate greed and capitalist globalization with its destructive impact on the workers and the youth. Truly the movement against corporate greed and capitalist globalization is international in scope.
Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at: movetoamend.org
Hope after Citizens United: Russ Feingold speaking in Eugene on Monday Nov 7 (tags)
Corporations, legal fictions, run your lives and your government thanks to the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. With Reagan, taxation shifted from corporate to individual. Russ Feingold will be speaking at EMU in Eugene at 4 PM on Nov7
Big Banksters on Wall St. Finance Military-Industrial Complex (tags)
Big corporate banks on Wall St. not only benefitted from the "too big to fail" bailouts handed to them by BOTH Bush AND Obama (how's that for change?), these banks also benefit from the multiple wars of imperial expansion the U.S. has waged in the recent decades.
[The Occupy movement] Demands and Grievances: Limit Corporate Power, Equal Rights for All (tags)
Different statements have been released by the more than 1,500 solidarity groups and occupations throughout the world..... the Move Your Money Project and Bank Transfer Day, both in solidarity with the Occupy movement, have called for people to remove their money from large corporate banks by Nov. 5, moving their money to local banks and credit unions. Excerpts from two occupations' statements of grievances and demands follow.
Democracy Now! Co-Host Gonzalez Speaks in San Diego (tags)
"Democracy Now!" co-host Juan Gonzalez spoke in San Diego October 24 as part of a whirlwind tour in support of his new book, "News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media." He made two main points in his talk: that there are three "strains" of American media — the corporate mainstream, the white alternative or "rebel" press, and media owned and controlled by people of color; and that since the 1840's the U.S. government has regulated every technological change in the media in a way that favors the interests of giant corporations over ordinary people.
Occupy Reality: It’s The Corruption Stupid (tags)
This level of community angst (there were a lot of people marching and a lot of occupied cities) is not so much about capitalism as a form of economic viability as it is about how criminality infiltrates capitalistic tendencies. There is probably “no” country more corrupt that our current empire here in the United States. That is the main issue. Not just corporate greed but its caustic effects in bribing Congress, the news media, the Executive branch of government, and the alienation of the majority of other countries against our lies, deceit, our government corrupting other peoples, the wars, and the torture, etc.
Occupy LA and Others Protest Outside Fox News Shareholder Meeting (tags)
WEST LOS ANGLES, October 21, 2011 - A crowd of about 75 people protested today outside the entry to the Fox Studios lot in Century City where the Fox News Corp. annual shareholders meeting is taking place today. Rupert Murdock is expected to attend the meeting today.
class war
Taking our schools back from the 1% is OccupyLAUSD's goal (tags)
Inspired by Occupy Movements for social and economic justice nationwide, educators and community members are planning to Occupy Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) starting Tuesday 10/18/2011.
Social Justice Occupations Head Everywhere (tags)
social justice
Stop the Machine Occupies Washington (tags)
social justice
Occupation Date Set for October 1 (tags)
This is an excerpt from the linked article at LA Activist.
Obama-Style Deficit Reduction (tags)
class war
Rage Against the System (tags)
American inhumanity
The Tax System is Out of Control (tags)
Citi-group and Bank of America operate many branch offices in tax havens. The use of tax havens deprives the state of $100 billion annually. "These tax havens accelerate the transfer of assets from local communities and the global South to the bank accounts of the richest..."
Carving up the Libya Corpse for Profit (tags)
anti-war
Stop the Machine! Create a New World! (tags)
A Call to Action - Oct. 6, 2011 and onward October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions.
anti-war
economy
LAUSD Creates Calamity for Crescendo Corporate Charters (tags)
A look at the events leading up to the closure of the Crescendo Corporate Charter Chain in Los Angeles. Aside from providing a cogent chronological narrative, the essay explores some very important social justice topics.
Angry leftists seek silver lining in debt deal and 7 videos (tags)
May we mend our own pockets and put the horse (14 million jobs and drying up the tax havens) before the cart (economic recovery/economic democracy)! Robert Kuttner speaks about this at http://prospect.org/.
Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal (tags)
class war
Heading for Economic Ruin (tags)
class war
class war
The Debt Ceiling: Where Are the Grownups? (tags)
The fact that the ruling elites haven't stepped in and forced the President and Congress to raise the debt ceiling, the way they did in October 2008 to push through the TARP big-bank bailout, suggests either that the corporate ruling class likes the "shock treatment" agenda being pushed by the Tea Party -- force a default on U.S. debt so the President and Congress will have to eliminate the welfare state virtually overnight -- or that the Tea Party has become the ruling class's Frankenstein, a monster it can no longer control.
The Fix Is In: Washington's Planned Social Contract Destruction (tags)
economy
Before we can determine if America has succumbed to fascism, we first must have a good definition and understanding of what fascism really is
Debt Ceiling Debate Charade Masks Planned Entitlement Cuts (tags)
criminal plan
Creating a New Deal for Today: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (tags)
The American political process is threatened by corporate power on a scale we haven't seen since the Gilded Age?when big money became so powerful that we nearly lost our democracy. restricted the influence of money in government.
financial terrorism
Oct 6 DC Stop the War Machine & Create A New World (tags)
October 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions. As Mother Jones said, "Someday the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!."
Obama Plans Gutting Regulations for Corporate Favorites (tags)
deregulation
Illegal Labor on the Farm Produces Big Profits for Agribusiness (tags)
NAFTA induced illegal immigration is providing agribusiness corporations with incredible profits, while legal workers and consumers reap few rewards. At some point people need to face the reality that the U.S. must withdraw from and repeal NAFTA!
Video: Joshua Holland "The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy" (tags)
The effective tax rate is half the nominal corporate tax rate. Two-thirds of US corporations paid no tax. GE took a $3.2 billion corporate tax credit. l.
Supreme Court Lets Corporations (tags)
corporatism
On LAUSD's urgent need to pressure CNCA to revise the CRES #14 charter (tags)
When LAUSD V.P. Flores awarded CRES #14 to Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) against the wishes and explicit votes of the Echo Parque community, and against the express recommendation of the Superintendent, she promised she would address the grievously problematic issues with CNCA's proposal regarding their exclusive and inflexible language program. Instead, nothing has been done to resolve this major point of contention between the corporate charter school operator and the community they will soon occupy.
Obamanomics: Waging War on American Workers (tags)
exploitation
Suppressing Truth and Promoting War: A New York Times Tradition (tags)
media lies
Republican Plan to End, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (tags)
ending vital rights
Democrats for Neoliberal Education Reform (tags)
The plutocrat and corporately funded DFER has turned "Manufacturing Consent" into an art form. Here we look at how they subverted an entire state legislature to pass one of the most reactionary and backwards education laws in the country, assuring Colorado's quick march towards school privatization and the commoditization of teachers.
Speaking truth to Camino Nuevo Charter Academy Revisionists (tags)
While the charter-voucher supporters dominate the narrative, public school supporters still have the facts on our side. Rather than allow corporate voices drown us out, we must choose to explain why communities want public schools.
Phillip Anschutz and Mayor Villaraigosa's corporate candidate Luiz Sanchez cheating again? (tags)
Just when you think corporate LAUSD hopeful Luis Sanchez couldn't be more unscrupulous and scandalous, he surprises with ever more deplorable acts of ignominy. This time around -- illegal fund-raising!
Gates' Yolie Flores lauded by LA Weekly's Yellow Journalists (tags)
Trashy masseuse and porn ad pennysaver (aka LA Weekly) has printed yet another homage to the princess of privatization.
Corporate Coup D'Etat in Wisconsin (tags)
worker struggles
ICEF Crooks to get gobbled up by competing Corporate Charter Chain (tags)
The corporate model charter schools follow makes for some interesting aftermath. They are now beginning to monopolize by swallowing each other up. If charters were the first step towards privatization, this is the first step towards the Wall-Martization of education.
Video: The Story of Citizens United v. FEC (tags)
Wall Street and the banksters have destroyed our economy and received trillions of our money. A general strike was called today in Madison Wisc to regain control of our democracy and repel corporate power endangering elections and the economy.
ICS phonebanking for Luis Sanchez? Conflict of interest much? (tags)
Just when you think the trail of scandals and unscrupulous behavior by LAUSD hopeful Luis Sanchez were at their apex, he reaches all new heights of disrepute by having his 501C3 phonebank for his political campaign.
THEY CORRUPTED & COLLUDED WITH THESE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE$ LIKE CLARENCE THOMA$.... (tags)
UNTIL CLARENCE THOMAS RESIGNS FROM THE PEOPLES U.S. SUPREME COURT,LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS WILL BE FORCED 2 CONTINUE ASKING FOR A FULL U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT & U.S.CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THIS OBVIOUS FRONTING OF CORPORATE AMERICA & ELSEWHERE TO GAIN POLITICAL VOTES WITH CERTAIN U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES INVOLVED WITH LAST JANUARYS LEGAL DECISION CONCERNING ALLOWING INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL CORPORATE UNLIMITED SECRET POLITICAL 501C4 SLU$H TO INFLUENCE OUR FUTURE USA ELECTIVE PROCE$$.
Corporate-Welfare Recipients: Are They Eating Steak And Driving Cadillacs? (tags)
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Wisconsin: Ground Zero to Save Public Worker Rights (tags)
worker struggles
Egypt's Spirit Lands in Wisconsin (tags)
protest
The Two Roads Out of Recession (tags)
Recent events in Washington, D.C. should provoke fear and outrage in the average American worker. As the jobs recession staggers on, politicians and labor leaders alike seem bizarrely distanced from reality, unable to advance any ideas that remotely correspond to the basic demands of those tens of millions of unemployed, under-employed, or poorly paid workers. Instead, what we get is President Obama's recent groveling to the corporate-dominated Chamber of Commerce, pleading with them to hire workers. The President's recent speech to the Chamber implied many dangers, which neither labor federation-- AFL-CIO and Change to Win -- bothered to point out. In fact, the AFL-CIO applauded sections of the speech, rather than condemning its sinister motives. If labor unions align themselves with the President's and the Chamber's pro-corporate path out of the recession, a workers’ road to recovery will be bypassed.
It's Official, the LA Weekly is Ben Austin's personal public relations firm (tags)
How Jill Stewart's masseuse and porn ad pennysaver -- The LA Weekly -- has taken yellow journalism to new heights with its fanatical coverage of the corporate astroturf group Parent Revolution's school privatization pogroms in Compton.
On Anschutz, Villaraigosa, LAUSD Privatization Candidates, and Riding Dinosaurs (tags)
Exposing Villaraigosa's Coalition for School Reform ties to right wing extremists like Philip Anschutz. Explores how plutocrat dollars flow to so-called reform candidates, who then follow the corporate agenda. Anschutz's Walden Media funded the production of the unabashed corporate charter propaganda piece, "Waiting for Superman."
The real question is, does the CCSA disseminate any information that isn't biased and inco (tags)
Looking at how the insatiably greedy executives and staffs of the California Charter School Association and Families That Can rigged the PSC 2.0 advisory votes to convert more public schools into privately run charters.
Banana Republic PSC Elections Camino Nuevo Corporate Charter Style (tags)
Exposing malfeasance by Corporate Charter Camino Nuevo in attempting to subvert the CRES 14 community advisory vote.
Public Education Activists: Answers to very important PSC 2.0 questions (tags)
Very important information for defending public schools from outside takeovers during the PSC 2.0 advisory votes.
Olbermann's Sacking Shifts US Media Further Right (tags)
corrupted corporate media
Big Finance and Big Business paying for corporate charter school advertisements (tags)
Most corporate charter-voucher schools have budgets for marketing advertising, but just in case, the well heeled bosses at the Granada Hills Chamber of Commerce want to make sure you understand and act upon their corporate message.
Crafty Camino Nuevo Charter Charlatans (tags)
A critical look at the nefarious corporate charter operator, Camino Nuevo, which is trying to pilfer yet another new public school site under LAUSD's corporate giveaway resolution
Obama's New Chief of Staff and Economic Team (tags)
Wall Street dominated
Responding to questions of teacher evaluation and performance (tags)
Addressing some of the false arguments by the corporate school privatization junta in regards to teacher evaluations and teacher performance.
STOP S. 510! Protect Independent Organic Farms! (tags)
If passed without amendments, S. 510, or the "Food Safety Modernization Act" would prevent independent organic farmers from growing and transporting their own food without being burdened by unreasonable regulations that do not apply to the larger corporate farms.
The Fix Is In: Expect Democrats to Buckle (tags)
Democrats will cave
Corporate Media's Version of Economic Justice (tags)
middle class destructions
The November 2 midterm elections were not only a decisive rejection not only of the Obama administration but a full-scale endorsement of free-market economic policies and lassiez-faire capitalism — albeit by a much smaller segment of the American electorate than voted Obama and the Democrats into power in 2008. Millions of Americans voted against the party under whose watch unemployment has risen from 6.2 to 9.5 percent, and bought into the Republicans' critique that the reason for Obama's failure is he's been too much of a progressive, unduly burdening the private sector with regulation and taxation. Thanks to talk radio and Fox News, millions of Americans profoundly believe that Obama and the Democrats are far more radical than they are — and as long as they remain on the air and have their current level of influence, U.S. politics will continue to move even further Right.
The New York Times: What Passes for Journalism in the Newspaper of Record (tags)
corporate journalism
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: London Session (tags)
working for peace and equity
Destructive Neoliberal Austerity (tags)
austerity, not stimulus coming
BTL:Secret Corporate Money That Bombards TV Airwaves with Attack Ads in 2010 Election Unde (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES - A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics.
BTL:Ralph Nader: Flood of Secret Money in 2010 Election is Next Stage in Corporate Dominat (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES - A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics.
UAW: Reform or rebellion? (tags)
"History shows that every gain won by American workers was the result of militant struggles in opposition to the corporate establishment and both big business parties. The very right to have a union, as well as the eight-hour day, child labor laws, overtime pay, health benefits, etc. was won in often bloody struggles against the violent resistance of the employers and the government. Whenever the Democrats, under the threat of revolution, conceded concessions to workers’ demands, they did so to smother the social movement so they could claw back the workers’ gains at a later point."
Socialist Mimi Soltysik’s Pre-Election Message to California Voters (tags)
The Socialist Party USA stands for political activity independent of the two major corporate parties. Socialists believe that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and that true democracy can only be achieved with society’s transformation to socialism.
5 CONSERVATIVE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HAVE GONE POLITICAL WITH THIS KARL ROVE CABAL (tags)
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS BELIEVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF DOUBT THAT THESE 5 CONSERVATIVE U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES & THE 3 REPUBLICAN FEC BOARD MEMBERS WERE ALL COERCED & USED BY GEORGE BUSH JR & THIS KARL ROVE ELITE CABAL TO HELP IMPLEMENT THEIR WELL PLANNED ELECTION$ OF MA$$ DESTRUCTION USING STOLEN & LEGIT WALL STREET ~ BANKERS~ AIG CORPORATE TARP BAILOUT $$ TO FINANCE THEIR SECRET 501C4 SECRET SLUSH FUND$~ SWIFT BOAT STYLE POLITICAL MEDIA ATTACK AD$ !!!
Handy Guide for Chevron Protests 2.0 (tags)
Chevron Corporation, of San Ramon, has taken an interest in our recent creative activities. For our benefit we should know who they are, who they work with, and who creates and promotes their brand. We also have some of their network information. The is the 2.0 version of the Handy Guide.
Where the Hell is the Progressive Rebel Party? (tags)
Teabaggers are being “bagged” back into the same old two party system—that is not just corrupted but corroded—so the joke will ultimately be on them—exactly in the same way that the joke was on progressives, who equally thought a corporate owned “top-down” Democratic Party was going to deliver a new deal of any kind—even as the bottom up got many of them elected into office.
Handy Guide for Chevron Protests (tags)
Chevron Corporation, of San Ramon, has taken an interest in our recent creative activities. For our benefit we should know who they are, who they work with, and who creates and promotes their brand. We also have some of their network information.
The Selling of the Woodrow Wilson Center (tags)
The DC-based Woodrow Wilson Center, established by Congress, has sold out to corporate America and political interests. Its president, former Congressman Lee H. Hamilton, has questionable corporate links.
"Manufacturing Dissent": the Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites (tags)
"How is the process of manufacturing dissent achieved? Essentially by "funding dissent", namely by channelling financial resources from those who are the object of the protest movement to those who are involved in organizing the protest movement. Co-optation is not limited to buying the favors of politicians. The economic elites --which control major foundations-- also oversee the funding of numerous NGOs and civil society organizations, which historically have been involved in the protest movement against the established economic and social order. The programs of many NGOs and people's movements rely heavily on both public as well as private funding agencies including the Ford, Rockefeller, McCarthy foundations, among others. The anti-globalization movement is opposed to Wall Street and the Texas oil giants controlled by Rockefeller, et al. Yet the foundations and charities of Rockefeller et al will generously fund progressive anti-capitalist networks as well as environmentalists (opposed to Big Oil) with a view to ultimately overseeing and shaping their various activities."
Destroy Talk Radio and Fox News! (tags)
In order to reverse the seemingly inexorable march of American political and popular opinion to the Right, progressives and the Left in general MUST confront the power of talk radio and Fox News as Right-wing propaganda outlets that are brainwashing millions of Americans. This article, published as the editorial in the September 2010 Zenger's Newsmagazine, calls for a worldwide boycott of advertisers on talk radio and Fox News until the shareholders and managers of these corporations realize that their subsidy of Right-wing nutcase politics is going to hurt their bottom lines.
Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment (tags)
food safety off the table in these bills
THEIR COMING 2 TAKE AWAY YOUR ABORTION & SAME SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS little u.s. voters .... (tags)
BET YOUR SWEET BIPPY THAT MUCH OF THIS BUSH~ROVE $750 BILLION TARP WALL STREET~ BANKERS PONZI $$ ARE ALSO IN THIS KARL ROVE ELITE BILLIONAIRE'S ELECTION FUNDING...
BET YOUR SWEET BIPPIE THAT BUSH~ROVE PONZI TARP BILLIONS ARE ALSO IN THIS ELECTION FUNDING (tags)
SO YOU STILL DO NOT BELIEVE THAT KARL ROVE AND HIS BILLIONAIRES ARE GOING TO TAKE ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE OUT OF AMERICA WITH THEIR BIG $$ MEDIA BRAIN~WASHING IN EVERY COUNTY EVERY STATE AND EVERY CITY IF NEED BE~ THEIR ALSO VERY LOADED WITH BUSH~ROVE $750 BILLION PONZI TARP WALL STREET~BANKERS BAILOUT $$ AND HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SPEND THEM THIS ELECTION CYCLE AND IN MANY OF OUR FUTURE BIG $$ AMERICAN ELECTIONS.
WILL KARL ROVES BILLIONAIRES & NY BILLIONAIRE MEG WHITMAN PREVAIL WITH THEIR $$$.... (tags)
IF WERE CORRECT HERE AT LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS & COLLUSION BETWEEN KARL ROVE & OUR U.S. SUPREME COURT HAPPENED~ all our little American voters NEED 2 KNOW PRIOR OUR BILLIONAIRES NOVEMBER ELECTION'S !!!
Don't let darkness fall (tags)
"The corporate giants Google and Verizon have a plan to destroy freedom. Yes free speech is now at risk like never before. For the latest on this visit www.Democracynow.org today (08/10/2010). Yes, the plan is to create a corporate "fast lane" and a "kiddy path" for the rest of us."
The economic journalism as spokesperson of the financial capital (tags)
We approached that crossing variables: when the sense production generated through the economy news section, it naturalizes or chews the lethality of the speculators' in different orders of greatness premeditated actions and the effects that cause in the day by of entire populations.
If the U.S. economy eventually recovers and current trends continue, U.S. workers won’t be celebrating in the streets. The corporate establishment has made it clear that a “strong recovery” depends on U.S. workers making “great sacrifices” in the areas of wages, health care, pensions, and more ominously, reductions in so-called “entitlement programs” — Social Security, Medicare, and other social services. These plans have been discussed at length in corporate think tanks for years, and only recently has the mainstream media begun a coordinated attack to convince American workers of the “necessity” of adopting these policies. The New York Times speaks for the corporate establishment as a whole when it writes:
Public Anger and Distrust of Business and Government (tags)
opposition to business and government
“Earth Is for People, Not for Corporations” (tags)
Election fraud expert Steven Freeman headlined “Earth Is for People, Not for Corporations” at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood July 1. The event featured a wide variety of anti-corporate presentations and showed the role of corporations in promoting and profiting from every current social evil, from war to the exploitation of immigrants and denial of the reality of climate change. It also exposed the role of corporate media and discussed ways people can challenge it.
BTL:Poll Finds Majority of Americans Support Limiting Corporate Spending in Election Campa (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Oval Office Duplicity: Cover for Corporate Criminality (tags)
government/corporate crime
Is Obama Powerless Against BP ? (tags)
After BP successfully placed a cap to divert some of the spewing oil into tankers, thousands of gallons continue to flow daily into the gulf. August is slated as the earliest date that any permanent solution may emerge. BP remains totally in charge of potentially the largest environmental disaster in the earth’s recorded history, a fact that proves — in “check mate” fashion — that corporations dominate the inner workings of the U.S. government, a truth previously revealed by the bank bailouts. More than one gigantic eco-system may be destroyed by BP, and the President of the U.S. is sadly reduced to lecturing in “serious tones,” with daily adjustments of tone based on the results of polling agencies.
Coming Soon: Corporate Town halls Against Social Security (tags)
In the old days the U.S. government used different tactics to trick the population into accepting policies that only the elite wanted. For example, it took legions of hired speakers (propagandists) to travel the country and to explain to people the “necessity” of fighting WWI and WWII. Movie stars were put on the government payroll, too, dazzling and awe-striking working people into buying war bonds and constantly cheerleading the war effort. Not much has changed. Although the corporate-controlled media is a highly effective tool to influence the public to accept wars-for-profit (Iraq and Afghanistan), some policies are so unpopular they require the old tactics be revived.
SENATOR TOM HARKIN OBVIOUSLY HAS A HANDLE ON THE LAW... POOR AMERICANS (tags)
WHY WOULD ANY COUNTRY AS WEALTHY AS OURS EVEN WANT 2 MIS~TREAT OUR POORER AMERICANS AS BADLY AS WE DO ???
Insurance Comm Candidate Padilla Opposes "Cap" On BP Ins-Calls For Seizure Of BP & Energy (tags)
Dina Padilla, Peace and Freedom Party candidate for California Insurance Commissioner has opposed any changes of insurance caps and instead is calling for the seizure of BP and public control of the entire energy under democratic worker management with the profits going to the public.
The Rift between Teachers and Democrats Widens (tags)
The corporate media is brutally honest on rare occasions. Take for example a recent article in The New York Times Magazine, titled The Teachers’ Union’s Last Stand (05-23-10). The title itself is surprisingly sincere, since it admits that the nation’s teachers are being targeted for attack by the Obama Administration, through his “Race to the Top” education reform. And although the article has an inherently corporate bias, it contains many revelations that have been otherwise ignored in the mainstream media.
How Recessions Cause Wars and Revolutions (tags)
A quick glance around the globe reveals a ruined international economy, wars and more wars in the works, and revolutionary movements aplenty — all connected phenomena. No, the apocalypse is not coming; but the international economic system currently used to arrange the social order is crumbling, taking everyone down with it. The global capitalist system is in far worse shape than most people realize: it may only take the tiny economy of Greece to go bankrupt to break this camel’s back — and finally the word “recession” will be antiquated and “depression” will be in vogue.
In the Streets for Human Rights: A People Without Borders (tags)
The recent immigrant rights demonstration in San Diego May 1 was inspiring, but a real solution to the immigration question will come only when we can disenthrall the American people from hateful corporate propaganda that pits disadvantaged groups against each other and convinces millions of Americans that their economic and social problems are caused by people below them, not people above. So-called “illegal” immigrants are just another in the long line of scapegoats corporate and Right-wing propagandists invoke to keep people confused and lead them to challenge each other instead of their corporate overlords.
The Economics Behind Immigration Reform (tags)
How convenient for Goldman Sachs. Just as most working people were demanding that the Goldman bosses and other Wall Street criminals either be massively fined, jailed or worse, the nation’s attention is suddenly forced to react to the racist immigration law in Arizona. And although the two incidents are not directly related, they represent a trend that is likely to increase in the months and years ahead.
How Wars are Born: the US vs. China (tags)
Those of us making the “radical” claim that wars are the result of economic/corporate interests pushed abroad, were recently given a nod of approval from a typically unfriendly source, The New York Times. The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic (corporate) interest” — raw materials, cheap labor, shipping lanes, markets, etc. — through military buildup.
West LA Community Fights to Stop Corporate Jets at Santa Monica Airport (tags)
WEST LOS ANGELES, April 20, 2010 – Residents of West Los Angeles neighborhoods impacted by the increase in corporate jet traffic at the Santa Monica airport held a press conference and marched to the airport this Sunday. The 70 year old Santa Monica airport which was once a relatively quite airport for small single engine private planes has become the nation’s busiest small airport for large corporate jets in within a densely populated residential area.
The UC8 Reporter: A Personal Account of Police Abuse of Power Against a Free Press (tags)
It's hard to know where to start. I'm not used to writing stories about myself. Usually, I am the one sharing news about other people through recordings and words. I cover events and publish reports to Indybay. I often report on street demonstrations, some more rowdy than others. And while I recognize the privilege my skin-tone grants me in our society and that I have not taken the types of risks war reporters do, I know enough from having seen what's happened to other journalists over the years that I am not immune from abuses by law enforcement authorities.
Blankenship murdered the miners and he'll kill again unless he's stopped
"“The some 3,000 (corporate) lobbyists in Washington, whose dirty little hands are all over the bill, have once more betrayed the American people for money.” “The bill is another example of why change will never come from within the Democratic Party. The party is owned and managed by corporations.”
Obamacare's Passage: A Full-Scale Retreat (tags)
a scheme to ration care and enrich corporate providers
Defeat in Victory: The Democrat's Health Care Bill (tags)
What looks like a big victory for Obama and the Democrats may be their greatest undoing. It’s true that the passage of Obama’s health care bill represents a significant political victory for the Democrats. But sometimes a battle won could equal a lost war. It’s telling that Obama had so much trouble in getting his own party to pass the bill on a simple majority basis: the bill was so blatantly watered down with the corporate hose that anyone with their name attached to it feared future electoral doom.
The Death of Populism in America (tags)
Obama's destructive health care legislation
Why Teachers Unions Matter (tags)
Nowadays a newspaper cannot be opened — or a TV turned on — without one being subjected to anti-teacher misinformation. The anti-teacher hysteria looks diverse on the surface, but underneath, this public controversy seeks to dislodge teachers unions: the right-wing trashes teachers’ unions outright, while the “liberal” media takes a more subtle, sophisticated approach, blaming the state of public education on “bad teachers” who must be fired and replaced. Both styles are the same in essence.
The Business of Water: Privatizing an Essential Resource (tags)
Water is life, not a commodity
How Obama's Health Care "Reform" Kills Health Care (tags)
It’s difficult to understand a subject when those explaining it are motivated not by truth, but profit. In the case of health care, both Democrats and Republicans have huge financial incentives to obscure, mislead, or lie. Instead of common sense and honesty directing the debate, bags of money facilitate the conversation, funneled in from the health care industry via lobbyists into Congressmen’s pockets. This is the real reason that Obama’s “health care summit” was full of free-market jargon, staged debate and fake rage.
America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution (tags)
America governs lawlessly
CNN's cover-up of the corporate fraud of Globalization. (tags)
I am informing through Indymedia International, all the workers of the World that they themselves must build their own jobs. All institutions in America public or private are robbing the citizens. Each American must deal with the problem directly.
The Great Bi-Partisan Deception (tags)
Some cancer is too aggressive even for chemotherapy. The US political system is infected with such a disease; and we may be witnessing the first death spasms. In a country ravaged by war and economic crisis, with tens of millions of people suffering, politicians are capable of doing absolutely nothing to help ordinary people. The only two “achievements” of the Democrat’s super majority in the Senate — over the course of five months — were an ineffectual stimulus package and a “surge” of troops in Afghanistan.
The Beauty of the Supreme Court's Decision on Corporate Personhood (tags)
Honesty is a beautiful thing.
Taxing the Rich Wins in Oregon (tags)
Victory! Thousands of Oregon workers fought valiantly over the past weeks to ensure that corporations and the rich will see their taxes raised, so that social services, health care, and education could be saved. Massive phone banking operations, door-to-door canvassing, and rallies were used by union and community members to educate the public about a progressive tax measure used to offset the state’s dire budget situation.
The Coup D’etat in America. (tags)
Ends the rule of the Constitution. We the people are now cogs in the corporate machine.
The Death of American Liberalism (tags)
It’s no exaggeration to say that President Obama was the Democrats’ last chance to maintain some level of political legitimacy in the eyes of working class Americans. Now, after a year of solid pro-corporate policies, it’s obvious Obama has failed; and with him the Democratic Party.
Greenpeace Los Angeles January Volunteer Meeting (tags)
Greenpeace Los Angeles January Volunteer Meeting
The Eighth Annual AntiMall (tags)
Many of us would like to give up holiday shopping altogether. However, the annual AntiMall is an opportunity for holiday shoppers to at least have their money go to artivists (artists + community activists) and causes such as Afghan Women's Mission—rather than big box stores and other corporate behemoths.
The Devastating Consequences of a Corporate Health Care Bill (tags)
Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive. But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being “progressive,” it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on American workers, the elderly, and the poor.
LA IMC 10th Anniversary - Technology Workshop (tags)
Activists representing many progressive organizations and Independent Media Centers across the nation met to discuss and share experiences organizing around issues of technology. Resonating themes in the discussion included corporate media's implementation of technology and strategy first used by the IMC movement 10 years ago, questions of diversity, empowerment, and shared skills among technologists and organizers, having an outward message and intentionality versus holding open space on- and off-line, technology activism, and legal issues around freedom of speech online.
Two Anniversaries: Berlin and Seattle (tags)
November 2009 was not only the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — an historical milestone reported to death by the corporate media — it was also the anniversary of an event the corporate media chose to ignore: the 10th anniversary of the mass protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle in November and December 1999. The challenge for radicals and progressives today is not only to revitalize the spirit of Seattle but to take back the initiative in an era in which the biggest and most confrontational mass actions are being staged by the "teabag" Right.
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire (tags)
New book reveals the truth about Israel's status as U.S. corporate colony.
Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism (tags)
state of today's major media
Reject Corporate Option for Health Care (tags)
No one, progressive or conservative, would vote for or in any way support Private Insurance Control of the country's health proram if they knew just a bit more about the private insurance industry. Who's in charge here? Not we, the people.
Indymedia Los Angeles 10th Anniversary Event! (tags)
On Saturday, November 14th, 2009, Los Angeles Indymedia will celebrate 10 years since the first Independent Media Center (IMC) opened its doors in Seattle to cover and support the demonstrations against the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). LA IMC is hosting an all day event, open to the public, encouraging current and former IMCistas to come out. There will be workshops, food, music, and community groups sharing their knowledge.
BTL:Study Finds Corporate Media Coverage of ACORN Follows GOP Script (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories (tags)
Project Censored's fabulous new book.
Who Should Hold the Power? (tags)
The Supreme Court decision on September 18th reversing spending limit legislation was a great step forward for corporations. They have been restricted from investing from their general funds in political campaigns. This means they now can contribute hundreds of millions per company to whichever candidate, party or campaign they wish. They once bore the shackles damning them to relatively level footing with normal citizens, but no more.
W.R. Grace Inc.’s Prior Knowledge of Risks of Asbestosis Ignored in Federal Court (tags)
A rewrite and update of an earlier article about the federal trail of W.R. Grace Inc. in Missoula, MT earlier this year, timed for the release of the "health care bill" as introduced by MT Senator Max Baucus. Think about prevention when it comes to corporate negligence and even malice when prior knowledge of health risks are ignored and justice for the workers in Libby, MT is derailed by a biased federal judge Donald Malloy..
Sep 2nd, 2009 9:09 PM Despite the sweeping Democratic victories in the elections of 2006 and 2008, the Republican party in general and the radical Right in particular have reasserted themselves with a vengeance, especially regarding the health insurance reform proposals of the Obama administration and Congress. They’ve been able to tap into the same reflexive anti-government sentiment that has powered American politics at least since Ronald Reagan’s election (and arguably earlier) to block the reform proposals and set the stage for a Republican return to power that will render Obama as irrelevant historically as Carter and Clinton -- and without a mass progressive movement to push Obama and the Democrats back to the Left, the Right will succeed and triumph.
Pirate Bay Slaps Corporate Terrorists In The Face (tags)
The Pirate Bay has been on the battle lines fighting for free speech rights across the Internet, defending our rights against corporate criminals who engage in racketeering against average every-day citizens who share news, information, books, video, photographs, and other information with each other, activities the corporate Fascists wish to stop.
Whole Foods is a Republican Scam (tags)
It comes as no surprise to anyone that the "Whole Foods" company is just another criminal Republican corporation out to make as much money from people as they can while advocating the "fuck you, I got mine!" mindset.
Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama (tags)
Liberals once again were fooled by "lesser evilism" tactics of the Democrats, many devoted much time and energy to elect Obama, yet only receive more of the same as their reward. Our only changes are military use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on prisoners instead of torture, under Obama the only change we will get in reality is a well spoken war criminal instead of a war criminal that speaks jibberish! Think Obama will allow for any domestic or international war crime trial of his predecessor?? Forget about it!! More of the same!!
Learning from Card Check's Death (tags)
Maybe you didn’t hear the news: Card Check — the key provision of the Employee Free Choice Act — is dead. You might not have gotten the message because U.S. labor “leaders” are remarkably silent on the issue. Not a peep. The media, however, has the story right: the Democrats are now officially seeking a compromise, one that strips the bill of its essence — the right for workers to start a union by stating their intention to do so. So why are most union leaders so quiet? No one likes to talk about their blunders, especially the colossal type. The defeat of Card Check is a mighty blow to labor, and admitting that your strategy failed to achieve it may cause others to question your authority.
It’s Still a Military Coup in Honduras (tags)
"We’ve already praised the singular work of TeleSur, and also of the courageous Hondurans who have broken the information blockade from below, filming coup abuses and the massive protests against them on their cell phones and uploading important videos to YouTube. And we’ve cheered as many corporate media organizations have become dependent on those reports-from-below in their own coverage. I’d like to add another media that deserves such recognition: Few have done the heavy lifting that Chiapas Indymedia has done, mainly in Spanish, to publish the communiqués, photos and videos that document the massive and organized nature of the Honduran grassroots movements with which it has worked and supported for years. (While the world mostly ignored Honduras in recent years, Chiapas Indymedia was shipping community radio transmitters and organizing communications workshops among Catrachos; that planting and cultivating bears significant fruit today in the information that does break out from behind the walls of censorship and simulation)."
Advertising Free Los Angeles (tags)
In one night, every billboard will be modified or removed, and every digital billboard will disabled, as will every advertisement on buses & trains, including their stops. Every corporate advertisement, big or small, will be changed or removed into something we rather see.
Who Will Pay for Healthcare? (tags)
There’s a jumbled, increasingly hysterical tone to the health care debate going on in Washington. On each side of the uproar lie powerful and opposing interests: on one side the giant corporations who make billions of dollars via the status quo; and on the other, the majority of working people who suffer immensely from it. Creating a health care “compromise” between these two interests is of course impossible, but seeing the politicians in Congress attempt one is at least good entertainment.
Chris Burnett is host of "Indymedia On Air" on KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles
Join the People's Summit in Detroit June 14-17, 2009 (tags)
People's Summit in Detroit June 14-17, 2009 to protest big-business gathering and to create a poor and working people's economic agenda. Join to protest big-business, to participate in the tent city and forums, town hall meetings and more!
STARBUCKS COFFEE ALLOWS MISTREATMENT OF HOW MANY OF THEIR CUSTOMERS ? (tags)
There comes a day when Corporate STARBUCKS at times goes a little to far ! Today my limit was pushed to the max with their Corporate denial of improper employee behavior in one of their Venice CA Corporate Stores !
STARBUCKS ALLOWS MISTREATMENT OF THEIR CUSTOMERS ? (tags)
There comes a day when Corporate STARBUCKS at times goes a little to far ! Today my limit was pushed to the max with their Corporate denial of improper employee behavior !
The Big Lie of Schwarzenegger and Corporate Agribusiness: Fish Vs. Jobs (tags)
Bill Jennings, chairman of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, has caught the Department of Water Resources, Governor Arnold Schwarznegger and Corporate Agribusiness in yet another "Big Lie."
Adam Turl reports on the bosses' backlash against the Employee Free Choice Act--and analyzes the shortcomings of organized labor's strategy.
BTL:Corporate Media "Embedded" with Wall Street as Economic Crisis Hit (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Unraveling The Card Check Debate (tags)
Sometimes in politics a particular issue strikes at the core of deeper social-economic forces. Card Check - properly named The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)- is such an issue. EFCA, if implemented as proposed, would allow workers at any work place to join a union simply by having the majority of employees sign union authorization cards. The current law mandates that there be a secret ballot election one month after the requisite number of signed cards are submitted. This one-month period allows employers to mount campaigns to discourage employees from voting for a union, often using conscious distortions and intimidation as tactics. EFCA would prohibit newly unionized workers from striking for two years to gain a first contract. Moreover, if a first contract has not been negotiated within the first three months, a Federal Mediator can step in and impose a contract. Currently, employers who are compelled to recognize a union do not have to concede to a negotiated contract at all; and if, after one year a contract has not been negotiated, the union can be subjected to a vote of decertification, which is often the case.
VIDEO: Riki Ott speaks with Amy Goodman (tags)
Alaskans are still reeling 20 years after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill of 11 million gallons. Riki Ott speaks with Amy Goodman about lingering harm and corporate personhood. A 28th amendment separating corporations and the state is as vital as the amendment separating church and state.
Employee Free Choice Act: "Reconciliation" is One way to Bypass Filibuster Rule (tags)
The "reconciliation" process which allows measures to pass the Senate on simple majority votes is nothing new. The legislative tactic is being considered to push through President Obama's global warming and health care programs, and perhaps his proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy.
Employee Free Choice Act: The Biggest Anti-Union Busting Campaign in History (tags)
Powerful Corporate Front Groups such as the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace will continue to use Union - Busting tactics such as FEAR,Intimidation,Coercion, Misinformation,Out Right Lies and Scare Tactics against any senator who is in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act
Wars & Depression Quickly Accomplishing the Corporate Agenda! (tags)
Wars & depressions are being artiicially fabricated and engineered expressly to rob the general public out of their wealth,their security and their hard fought for civil and human rights! In today's right wing system - You always LOSE - they always WIN! .......................................................................
The Big Lie of Recession Politics: 'Shared Sacrifice' (tags)
It’s everywhere you look and in every speech you listen to. Every time a politician or businessmen talks about the recession, an almost in-synch, repetitive mantra can be heard: “Shared sacrifice, equality of sacrifice, hard choices.” Oh my. There must be something to it, since EVERYBODY seems to be regurgitating the phrase in harmony.
Exposing Groups Like Save our Secret Ballot and The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (tags)
Why does Corporate Front Groups like Save our Secret Ballot and The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace continue to Spread Disinformation and Lies?
The California Budget and Class War (tags)
On February 19, the California legislature, after weeks of wrangling, passed a special budget to address the historically high $42 billion deficit. It represents an unadulterated washout for working people who are attacked on almost every front by the Democratic Party, which controls a broad majority in the legislature.
Employee Free Choice Act: The Enemies of Unions and The Lies They Tell (tags)
Corporate leaders see the proposed Employee Free Choice Act as a grave threat--and they'll say and do just about anything to prevent its passage.
FBI might mean: Finished, Busted and Internment For Corporate Crooks (tags)
Are convictions, fines and imprisonment enough punishment for corporate executives proven guilty of crimes that damaged the U.S. economy?
A Modest Proposal on Executive Salaries (tags)
A proposal to tie the salaries of executives to the minimum wage.
War Criminal GW Bush Regime Escapes to Texas Ranch (tags)
Since GW Bush, Cheney and their fellow war criminals of the outgoing Bush administration are escaping their needed trail for war crimes following the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq based on fabricated evidence. Many needless deaths from invasion of Iraq and a crumbling economy are the legacy of this brilliant criminal regime. Are we content to allow them to simply retire to clearing brush on the Texas ranch without a war crimes trail??
Unless things change fast, human history will show that the phenomenon of “retirement” was limited to one generation. After World War II, when European and Japanese economies stood in tatters, American capitalism could fulfill “the American dream,” since there was little foreign competition to speak of. For the first time ever, workers were promised that — after working thirty or so years — they would be able to securely retire. That was largely the case…for one generation.
Arroz con Pollo Opens In LA (tags)
Arroz con Pollo is a play about climbing the corporate ladder and working people. "Add a pinch of corporate greed, with a dash of unrelenting ambition, and you have a recipe for a disaster affecting the lives of hundreds."
Racism, Immigration, and Profit (tags)
People are rightly confused about the issue of immigration -- it is a complex phenomenon and many things need to be considered. Often times, there seem to be equally compelling arguments and statistics on either side of the issue, creating even more confusion. Unfortunately, the immigration debate is often tinged or even marred by racism - usually subtly, sometimes openly. This feeling finds a receptive audience not because of prejudice, but out of fear. Indeed, racism cannot exist without fear. We believe that, at bottom, recent immigration-related topics -- from ballot measures to border fences -- directly or indirectly contain elements of racism and fear. Unraveling the basis for this fear, as well as those in charge of creating it, is essential if one is to make an informed decision on the immigration question. While doing this, we will attempt to uncover the deeper reasons that have created the atmosphere that has projected this issue on to center stage.
Bush administration denies funding for FBI probe of mortgage mess (tags)
The Bush administration is rejecting FBI pleas for more agents to investigate crimes that helped trigger the global financial meltdown, bureau sources said this week.
Independent means not being the same as all other media but indymedia here in LA seems to not be able to dissent from the 'ole 2 partied established system' either. Where's Nader on this website ?
Part 2- World Capitalist Crisis (tags)
We expect more of the use of cheap labour in the less developed countries like China and India in order to produce cheap raw materials and semi-manufactured consumer products for the imperialist countries and thereby maximize imperialist profits. In fact the US capitalist are hell bent on transferring high paying industries to the third world and even already cheap service industries like call centers and car assemblies and other production lines in a vain attempt to cut jobs, paying insurances and other workers benefits that the people are demanding in the face of the capitalist made crisis.
The U.S. Economy on FIRE (tags)
The current U.S. economic crisis didn't start a few years ago when banks and financial institutions started selling "subprime" real estate loans to high-risk borrowers and then repackaging them as "mortgage-backed securities." It began in the early 1970's as a result of a long-term plan by America's major corporations and business leaders to drive down workers' wages and extract more surplus value — and the workers' response, which was to take on more debt. Any real solution that benefits working people cannot be instituted until the power of the corporate rich over the political system is broken.
Democrats push for quick adoption of Bush plan to bail out Wall Street (tags)
Where is the common ground between the libertarian and socialist perspective in opposing the GW Bush 700 billion for billionaires bailout? Why did Democrats bite into GW's fishhook by accepting this theft of taxpayer dollars to support irresponsible and criminal banking corporations??
The $700 Billion Bailout is a Fraud (tags)
The Bush administration's proposal to buy, with taxpayers' money, $700 billion of toxic liabilities from the corporate financial titans of Wall Street is a fraud. We should not be stampeded into the greatest corporate theft of public assets in the nation's history.
The contradictions in US foreign policy to various world events and their relationship to capitalism
Cut&paste away the corporate nomenklatura (tags)
Cut&paste to this my space site and spread the word, when there are enough I will release information that will bring down this goverment! In that there will be massive investigations and arrests in both parties. Think this is a joke? Take a look for yourself.
The Devastation of Glabalizattion (tags)
The most devastating affects of Globalization; Culture loss, environmental destruction.
Conservation, Conservation, Conservation! (tags)
We have lost our consumer control to the corporate dictatorships.
Choice in November - Nader v. Twiddle Dee or Twiddle Dum (tags)
The criminal class in Washington is bipartisan.
Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico (tags)
Call it NAFTA on steroids.
U.S.Public's Class Action Lawsuit against Washington's Lobbyists! (tags)
The sick reality that Lobbyists are spending "$3 Billion a Year" in Washington to influence and bribe the American Govt. is in reality a form of "Racketeering" and can be prosecuted under the Rico Act and many more statutes!
Socialists strongly criticize McCain’s Iraq War timetable (tags)
On March 19, 2008, the U.S. occupation of Iraq entered into the sixth year; now Republican presidential contender, Senator John McCain is saying that “he believes the Iraq War can be won by 2013,” according to the Associated Press. Socialists, nationwide are sharply critical of John McCain’s irresponsible statement to suggest that U.S. forces will remain in Iraq and Afghanistan for another five years.
Many candidates, corporate media obscures U.S. presidential politics (tags)
Third political parties do not compete on a level playing field in U.S. politics; the corporate media will spend more money in one day, promoting the campaigns of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, than the amount of money third political parties will spend in one year to promote their candidates, combined. While third party candidates are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on flyers and brochures, big corporations are spending millions to keep the names of their candidates in the public’s view.
Mendo Redwoods Corp plan for PL bankruptcy (tags)
Three chances for the public to voice their ideas, ask questions and present alternatives to the Mendocino Redwoods corporation's plans for logging on (Maxxam)/Pacific Lumber land following the PL bankruptcy..
Reviewing David Edwards and David Cromwell's Guardians of Power (tags)
A powerful critique of the dominant media
Socialists Blast Corporate Media on Presidential Debates (tags)
In recent days, ABC in a debate of the candidates excluded Dennis Kucinich from participating in the national television debate of the Democrats while including Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. ABC-Disney is the same outfit that is seeking to destroy the lives and living conditions of the striking writers of the Writers Guild of America. These media monopolies are again showing their true colors.
Socialists Emerging as Democrats, Republicans Lose Voter Confidence (tags)
The socialist parties are emerging as a political force in American politics, addressing those issues that are important to millions of Americans and working people; ending the Iraq War, solving the nation’s health care needs, free education for college students, providing benefits for all veterans, protecting homeowners, creating affordable housing and providing for the needs of all working class people.
2008 GOP Presidential and VP Team Giuliani and Perry: Welcome to the Sewers of the U.S. (tags)
Demi-Gods or Demons? You be the judge. Of the 2 men Giuliani is the better-known nationally, but neither one deserves the support of his GOP party or the American people.
The Gap and Black Friday (tags)
Building a New Global Movement The Observer's Dan McDougall described their garment shop as, "smeared with filth, corridors flooded with excrement from a flooded toilet." The workers recounted threats and beatings from management to keep their nimble fingers moving.
Going Feral – Desertphile Speaks About Civilization (tags)
It's a good life if it doesn't kill you
Biodiesel once, twice recycled? GMO smog? (tags)
Background on risks of promoting biodiesel as petroleum alternative, guarding against biotech's corporate takeover of corn, soy and other potential biodiesel sources. Local control of used fryer oil or rendering corporation monopoly??
Support the Writers Guild - Ride March, and Rally (tags)
More than 10,000 writers are on the front lines of the fight to preserve decent working standards against corporate power.
Campesino Activist Assassinated in Brazil by Syngenta's Hired Thugs (tags)
Brazil's Movement of Landless Workers & La Via Campesinos activist camp attacked by hired assassins after protesting Syngenta's GMO/GE biotech crop monopolies..
Corporate Disobedience: A Shrill Hysteria in the Fascist Press (tags)
The Bill Maher incident exposes the blanket media censorship of the 9/11 cover up. The violent and reactionary responses to protest expose the fascist mindset endemic in right wing (and other) media.
How to reign in the corporate monster. What we need to understand is that we feed the beast every time we buy a Corporate burger, shop at a Corporate store or participate in a Corporate bank; we merely shovel coal into the belly of the beast.
kpfk local station board elections (tags)
i'm running for local station board. & looking for your support!
Media Manipulation Research (tags)
Who is afraid of a small doctor from Texas? Seems that the mainstream media is. We can't let the media control the truth.
The War on Working Americans - Part I (tags)
Working Americans are losing out in the war waged against them.
Should Journalists be Certified? (tags)
Reasonable people here in the U.S. appreciate, and also assume, that our culture’s news industry of executives, editors and journalists be held to high standards of professional conduct. A democratic republic needs, as well as expects, truth in reporting, and adequate, if not comprehensive, coverage on “all” important issues. To refocus the question of media fraud to one of whether journalists ought to be certified, or accredited by some kind of professional board, in order to be recognized as “professional” journalists, is, to say the least, shortsighted.
Iraq War: Democrats Will Stay the Course (tags)
These days the presidential candidates for the Democratic Party are sounding more like replacement candidates for Bush; on the issue of ending the Iraq War. All the candidates, with the exception of Representative Dennis Kucinich and Governor Bill Richardson, are making open-ended commitments to keep American forces in Iraq and the Middle East region for years.
The High Social Cost of Low Corporate Taxes (tags)
It is now taken for granted that social services in the U.S. will be under-funded – if they are funded at all. This isn’t because average people think that such things are unimportant, but because we’ve been taught by “our” representatives in government that even a miniscule social safety net is economically impossible (it is never explained why – it just is). As this approach continues to dominate mainstream political life, the living standards of working people everywhere are being destroyed, and the meager reforms politicians have always promised us have devolved into even tinier crumbs and counter-reforms. Indeed, reforms that benefit the working class seem to be impossible in Washington now-a-days, precisely at a time when the wealth of the country has never been greater. To make sense out of such irrationality, one has to consider that this issue isn’t limited to the 50 states of the U.S. – it’s an international problem, and its cause is no accident.
Canada Wins Its First NAFTA Decision! (tags)
The economy is a part of life, not a steamroller dominating all life and discourse and trashing past, present and future. Canada's win in the 7-year UPS case gives hope to all people in the struggle for sovereignty, self-determination and economic justice.
Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For the Few" - by Stephen Lendman (tags)
America's democracy serves only the privileged.
The Militarization and Annexation of North America (tags)
NAFTA on steroids enforced with an iron fist
The "Dark Cloud" of Domestic Imperialism Hangs Over Our Soldiers (tags)
Kimberly-Clark Nominated to Hall of Shame (tags)
Vote Kimberly-Clark into the Corporate Hall of Shame
Ecoactivist Daniel McGowan sentenced to 7 years (tags)
Daniel McGowan of New York City, was sentenced to seven years in prison today and designated a terrorist for his role in two acts of environmentally motivated property destruction in 2001.
Flight to the Tax Haven (tags)
Halliburton's relocation to the Emirate is "an example of the most wicked entrepreneurial greed, an insult to US soldiers and taxpayers who paid the bill all these years for the no-bid contracts and exorbitant prices. Security policy differs from propaganda as sharing differs from megalomania
SMC Revolutionary Student Collective to Hold Discussion About Free Software (tags)
On Tuesday, May 29. the Santa Monica College (SMC) Revolutionary Student Collective (RSC) will hold a discussion on Free Software in LA-136 at Santa Monica College between 11:15am and 12:35.
Corporate abuse exposing unfair labor practices in violation of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (tags)
This Website: corporate-misconduct.com is designed to inform the viewer and listener the time has come to see the world as it is regarding matters of grave importance concerning corporate abuse and unfair labor practices.
Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues (tags)
Texas Congressman trounces rivals in all polls but is deliberately pushed to margins by terrified corporate media
The closer Australia gets to the Federal election, the fewer the political differences between the two major candidates! The chances of opposition leader, Kevin Rudd becoming the next Australian prime minister have increased dramatically following his private dinner engagement with king maker, Rupert Murdoch in New York today. During his quick visit to the U.S., Rudd also addressed the Brookings Institution in Washington and confirmed that any negligible differences between his policies and Howard’s would be completely eradicated by the time of the election and that he was ready, willing and able to assume the ’position’ of lackey, sycophant and new governor of America’s newest colonial acquisition, Australia! [O Ned, you’re better off dead!]
Australian Leader – “underdog” (tags)
The Prime Minister of Australia claimed today that he would contest the forthcoming Federal election as the underdog – another tired (and familiar) Howard tactic! The failing politician failed to mention that it was he who created the situation with his inane, ill-considered comments ranging from his hysterical criticisms of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, as the terrorist friendly candidate, to his astounding comments on HIV and immigration bans.
911 Truth Movement: Only Growing Stronger (tags)
http://www.911blogger.com/node/7665 Someone please translate into Spanish.
End US Occupation of Iraq! No invasion of Iran! (tags)
Anti-war rally in downtown Arcata Plaza (other side of Post Office) @ 5pm on Monday March 19th! We will not allow the GW Bush regime another year of military occupation of Iraq undisturbed! Join in non-violent resistance to US militarism in Iraq and elsewhere. Let's clean up the radioactive mess of nuclear weapons & waste we've made in our backyards at home before threatening the people of Iran with an invasion over thier expressed desire of nuclear energy!
Recipes For Disaster, an anarchist cookbook (tags)
For ten long years, our operatives have honed their skills, testing their wits and mettle against the global capitalist empire, the most formidable adversary in the history of life on earth. We have learned how to redecorate the walls of cities occupied by armies of riot police, to transform random groups of damaged, isolated individuals into loving communities capable of supporting one another through the most severe bouts of repression and depression, to shut down corporate summits and franchises armed with little more than plastic piping or eyedroppers of glue. Now, the notorious CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective has compiled many of the techniques that made these feats possible into a 624-page manual entitled Recipes for Disaster.
Conservative Lunacy and Public Paralysis (tags)
The Australian Federal Treasurer, Peter (supercilious prick) Costello today impetuously let one cat out of the (tactics) bag! Responding to a question relating to the economy, Costello took the opportunity to state that “the people wouldn’t trust their mortgages to the opposition party or to the leader of the opposition”. Tired fear tactics aside, Costello’s statement relates directly to the crippling debt the Australian public has been experiencing since the conservatives took office (hint!) The conservatives are the problem not the solution.
NEW MEXICO BIDS FAREWELL TO CONSUMER PROTECTION: LOBBYISTS KILL ASPARTAME BAN (tags)
How corporations destroy consumer protection legislation to product their product from liability suits, questions, and legislative action
Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition (tags)
Hugo Chavez within the law acting against a flagrant media lawbreaker.
Welcome to 2007, the year of plain sight and little doubt! The criminal incompetence of the Bush regime is impossible to hide, thanks in part to a highly successful American son, Bill Gates – and everyone thought that Bin Laden posed the greatest threat to the American way of life! It was Bill Gates, the world’s most successful capitalist, who, a decade ago, accelerated the development of the “information super highway”. His superbly streamlined and devastatingly efficient marketing machine facilitated the age of open communication that many take for granted today.
Reparations Movement Wins Historic Victory in Legal Arena (tags)
On December 13th, the US Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld fraud claims brought by African Americans against 15 major US banks, insurers, and transportation companies that concealed their slave trading histories from consumers. Judge Richard Posner said that a seller of goods who hides his company's slave trading history because he's afraid of losing customers is "guilty of fraud."
Puppet leadership in Western ‘Democracies’ (tags)
Corporate power and rulership in western societies is complete, governments either conform to corporate dictates or are quickly replaced by compliant political alternatives. The management of information via the monopolised mass media and the complete domination of the economy maintain and sustain corporate supremacy. The masses suffer increased subjection (debt slavery) and vulnerability (limited options) as a result of decreased representation by governments. Corporate rule has reduced the real status of the public to servility and subservience, not dissimilar to the ancient Roman model of kept house-slaves. The belief that Roman slaves were constantly maltreated is based on erroneous images (whipped galley-slaves) that Hollywood and the entertainment industry have popularised. Ancient Roman slaves lived in basic but tolerable conditions, similar (in relative terms) to the servile masses of today.
The Downside of ‘Liberation Democracy’ (tags)
A recent study highlighting the rapid expansion of organised criminal activity in those areas where NATO and the U.S. have engaged in aggressive military intervention offers further evidence of the lasting negative social consequences of foreign occupation by neo-colonial powers. As corporate driven America attempts to assert its dominance over weaker nations, organised crime, quick to exploit traumatised societies, becomes the principal beneficiary in the 'war against terror' and the spread of ‘democracy, liberty’ and free market capitalism – what is good for capitalist America is even better for a crime boss!
An Australian corporate director who FAILED to perform was recently relieved of his position; he nevertheless was able to walk with a $30 million severance package. This case is not uncommon, directors who fail to perform ensure they win regardless of other factors. Public companies are milk cows for these unscrupulous types.
Pop Immigration-Politics Quiz (tags)
What is illegal immigration? Who makes it happen?
Meat Sheik, Anglican paedophilia, and non-regulation Jewish foreskin (tags)
This past week in Australia has been ‘fundamentally’ outstanding; dimwitted fundamentalist religionists vied with each other for top billing in the local media. Never has the nation seen such retarded behaviour from so many diverse religious groups. The prize for fundamentalist imbecile of the week however goes to the Muslim cleric Sheik al-Hilali for his retrogressive reference to women as “uncovered meat”. He unashamedly placed the responsibility for rape and other sexually violent acts onto women; men were exonerated on the basis that “uncovered meat” is sexually provocative! The local media now refers to the cleric as the “Meat Sheik” and continues to sensationalise aspects of the story.
Indymedia: Brad Will, Bravery, Our Common Struggle (tags)
I think we should all take a look at what is so important about indymedia work and why it is so important and what it means to each one of us. I hope that we draw courage of conviction from Brad's example and that we stand together throughout the indymedia network and as individuals to redouble our efforts. I think you all know that it could have been any one of us. But, it is so much easier for them to take us one at a time. We stand much more strongly together in what we can all be proud of. Our brave common struggle. Indymedia.
Top 10 Corporate Spenders On 2006 Initiatives Give $134 Mil. (tags)
Corporations Give 61% of Total Initiative Funding, Outspend Unions 12 To 1 Prop. 89 Will Level the Playing Field
THOM HARTMANN'S NEW BOOK - SCREWED: THE UNDECLARED WAR AGAINST THE MIDDLE CLASS (tags)
HOW DEMOCRACY AND THE MIDDLE CLASS ARE BEING DESTROYED
Virginia Sen. Allen didn't disclose stock options as rules required (tags)
Do your really think Congress can police its self and stop corruption. No way! Congress by the defination of government is corrupt
No to Angelides and Schwarzenegger! Yes to Janice Jordan! (tags)
Angelides criticized Schwarzenegger for his praise for the racist anti-immigrant vigilantes called the “Minutemen” while in the same breath calling for a "guest worker" program that would create a new class of super-exploited worker with no political rights. Under the same type of program in the past U.S. bosses often failed to even pay Mexican workers for their hard labor. The fact that Angelides and the Democrat Party are now calling for this kind of legalization of indentured servitude place them firmly in the same racist camp as Schwarzenegger.
Manipulation of media and elections by Big Corporations.
Stolen election AGAIN? Help spark a general strike Nov. 8! (tags)
Before it's too late...
“Good Night, and Good Luck” -- WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes (tags)
BBC1 Television, near 9/11/2001, interviewed 9/11 author and theologian, David Ray Griffin. What caught my attention was another guest (a writer for a prominent British newspaper) who scoffed at considering challenges to the official story of 9/11, because US media is so vast and free that if there were problems with the official story, he'd have heard about it via US media. There is a 9/11 cover up occurring.
Dissecting the war on terror (tags)
After five years of post 9/11 government, U.S. foreign and domestic policy continues to be dominated by the all-encompassing ‘war on terror’. Events have since exposed this so-called war for what it is: a gross propaganda campaign used to suppress civil liberties and launch global war.
Report Back: FCC Public Hearing on Media Ownership (tags)
LOS ANGELES, August 31, 2006 - A public hearing with two of the five commissioners of the FCC was held Thursday this past week on the USC campus.
Millions of land mine cluster duds ungodly Israel has thrown into 170 towns of Lebanon to murder innocent children with for decades. Along with radio-active toxic waste that will suffer G-d's Humanity indiscriminately for untold generations. Terrorist Crimes the Israeli State with corporate bushite News america claimed repeatedly, are worth targeted execution of themselves for.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (14) Mad Cow Disease?? (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 14th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with the possibility that Mad Cow Disease resulted primarily from genetically-engineered cattle feed.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (11) Mystery Diseases: Human Health (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 11th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with so-called "mystery" diseases afflicting human health in this terrible -- and worsening -- GMO era.
Why Democracies evolve into Dictatorships (tags)
It took only six years with Bush Jr. as President to give birth to a new generation of radical political activists, journalists, and commentators, whose main concerns are subjecting the insane policies of the President to exposure and condemnation; this, it seems, constitutes the foundation for nearly the entire realm of real political opposition in the U.S. The strategy here is limited to educating people about the destructive policies of the Republicans and hoping that in response, a protest or political movement will evolve powerful enough to either reform or displace those in power. Education of course, is absolutely crucial in transforming any dissident organization into an entity capable of action and results. However, by focusing only on the policies of the Republicans, without explaining the larger framework from whence they came, political education is greatly hindered, limiting the potential for effective action.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (10) Bt-cotton Fiber Disease (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 10th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing here with an almost science-fiction affliction -- Bt-cotton Fiber Disease.
In Tribute to Fidel Castro (tags)
Part I, "In Tribute to Fidel Castro", lists some of his extraordinary, truly astonishing achievements. Part II asks, "How Can We Best Honor Him?", and answers with an Action Plan designed to defeat the Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis that threatens Cuba and all of us with an international Fascist strait-jacket.
Uniting the Liberals, Lefties, and Progressives (tags)
Ever since the classic revolutions that begun the current epoch of ‘democracy’, and more importantly capitalism, there have remained an inherent disunity among those loosely defined as progressives. Why this lack of unity exists, and why our political opponents do not seem to suffer from the same ailment is something worth examining.
Eleven (11) Questions Avoided by the Media in Recent Reporting of Department of Defense Vi (tags)
Recent articles in corporate media examine deception and lying by the Department of Defense relative to the attacks of September 11th 2001. They shed light on an effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission in its refusal to bring Government deception to the American people by way of their discredited 9/11 Report. Links to these articles follow as do 11 questions which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked and which must be answered:
GMO Disease Epidemics: (6) Food-Induced Life-Threatening Shock (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 6th in the series, dealing here with life-threatening shock (anaphylaxis) caused by eating genetically-engineered (Frankenstein) food.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (4) GM-Insulin (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 4th in a series revealing the epidemics, dealing with GM-INSULIN. (see the 2nd, "Hepatitis B Vaccine", for a rundown of the extreme dangers of genetically engineered medicine)
GMO Disease Epidemics: (3) Aspartame artificial sweetener (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused MANY disease epidemics -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 3rd in a series, dealing with a horrific artificial sweetener (by Monsanto) that infests 6,000 food products.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (2) Hepatitis B Vaccine (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GE,GM,GMOs) is a nightmare technology that has already caused many disease epidemics-- documented but unpublicized. Note that GE medicine has been totally ignored by environmentalists and anti-GMO campaigners. Read and take heed -- it may save your health or life.
Mondavi's vinyard$$ of globalization exploit workers, ecosystem (tags)
Mondavi winemaking corporation should be boicotted for labor violations (UFW campaign), ecological destruction (decimation of oak woodlands for new barrels/vinyards), and exploitation of family grape farmers overseas using WTO globalization agreements..
GMO Disease Epidemics: (2) Hepatitis B Vaccine (tags)
Genetic Engineering has already caused many DISEASE EPIDEMICS -- documented but unpublicized. This is the 2nd in a series revealing the epidemics. Note that GM medicine has been almost totally ignored by environmentalists. Do read and take heed. -- it may save your health or life.
GMO Disease Epidemics: (1) Tryptophan (tags)
Genetic Engineering (GM, GMOs) has caused many disease epidemics, unpublicized by the corporate mass media. This article, the first in a series, reveals these documented epidemics. The article also explains about Patents on Life, and offers an Action Plan to OUTLAW both GM and sacrilegious Patents on Life upon which GM depends.
Immigrants Are Lost In American Politics (tags)
Over the past 25 years Americans have enjoyed the benefits of immigrants for cheap labor; now the Washington leadership, that has relaxed enforcement and has permitted over twelve million immigrants to establish residency in the United States, is now reversing direction because cheaper labor is now in abundance in Asia. Washington is acting to protect the interest of corporate America, however there are many ramifications, families that are now part of the American fabric, working with us, living with us and are now part of our society.
June Protests - Innovative (tags)
And totally ignored by the corporate media.
Self starting protests of Calderon's theft @ Mexican consulate (tags)
Theft of the election by Calderon comes at a perfect time for the Bush regime and their money hungry NAFTA/WTO/PPP sponsoring corporations thirsting for the agua, labor, bosques and cultural lifeblood of Mexico's southern Sierra Madre mountains, petroleum reserves etc.. Let's not allow Calderon, another imperialist lapdog from Fox's PAN party, to steal the Mexican presidency! Choicepoint and other corporate voter fraud devices need to be removed from interfering with the democratic electoral processes..
Interview with Forrest Hill (tags)
Green Party Candidate for Secretary of State of California
Lt. Governor Candidate Proposing Socialize Health Care (tags)
The United States has fallen behind many other countries to protect the health of our citizens, including Canada, England and most other European countries. As a nation our government is first concerned with protecting corporate profits and the interest of big business above the health of our citizens. Now Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor with the Peace and Freedom Party, is proposing socialize health care to protect the health of our society.
Comments on Greg Palast's New Book Armed Madhouse (tags)
PALAST EXPOSES US ELECTION FRAUD, CRIMES AGAINST IRAQ AND LOTS MORE
The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism (tags)
The guilty verdicts handed down by a Houston jury last week against former Enron chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling provide an opportunity to evaluate the significance of the company’s rise and fall within the context of American capitalism. Accounts by jurors given after the verdicts were announced indicate they all agreed that the evidence against the two executives was overwhelming. It consisted mainly of testimony from over a dozen former executives, who implicated Lay and Skilling for their roles in defrauding investors and employees through various forms of accounting manipulation. The jurors quickly rejected the absurd position of the defense that Enron was basically a healthy company that collapsed into bankruptcy in December 2001 largely as the result of Wall Street machinations and negative press coverage.
Immigration Setback Blacks, Poor Whites (tags)
The increasing number of immigrants entering the U.S. has been sanction by Washington D.C. to satisfy the growing demand from corporate America for cheap labor; and the failure of U.S. policy has been a setback for all Americans on both sides of the border.
Hundreds of Thousands in NY City March Against the War (tags)
AGAIN, corporate media ignores a massive war protest. Hundreds of thousands protested immigration laws, and the corporate media had helicoptors in several cities giving hourly updates to these demonstrations. But two days earlier on April 29 hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of New York City protesting the war in Iraq were given a ten second soundbite of the podium where Cyndee Sheehan and Rev. Jackson stood.
COMMENTS ON DAVID SIROTA'S NEW BOOK - HOSTILE TAKEOVER (tags)
Sirota shows how corporate cash corrupts government at all levels
Mission Impossible Again (tags)
While 1.5 million immigrants and their supporters marched throughout America on May Day, our Imperial Monarch, Dubya (or rather, his handlers), saw fit to address, not the growing immigrant rights movement, but rather the installation of the new puppet PM of Iraq.
Illegal Immigration leads North American "community" to follow European Union (tags)
The Global Regime is hungry and rabid. It wants a body of slave labor to access anywhere in the world. The Ford Foundation and numerous transnationals have poured millions into preparing to remount dominance over workers in the U.S. It's developed a front to hide behind and the green light has been given for a full assault.
HOSTILE TAKEOVER - THE CORPORATE CONTROL OF SOCIETY AND HUMAN LIFE (tags)
HOW PREDATORY GIANT CORPORATIONS DESTROY SOCIETY AND PEOPLE
4/22 Protest of Bush regime H2 greenwashing (tags)
Reportback on GW Bush visit to CA Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento. Protesters expose the Bush hydrogen (IPHE) plan as a continuation of petroleum addiction and corporate subsidies. Greenwashing of Earth Day, shame on the Petroleum Puppet pResident..
US PLANNING FOURTH ATTEMPT TO OUST HUGO CHAVEZ (tags)
US PLANS NOW UNDERWAY TO OUST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ
Jim White, corporate bloopers (tags)
Interview with Jim White about corporate bloopers.
Christian Zionists support nuclear militarization of Israel (tags)
On the third year anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death by Israeli Defense Forces, author attempts to expose right-wing Christians as a financial/political source of Zionist Israel's apartheid and military oppression of Palestinians. Also examines the role Christian fundamentalists play in the escalation of environmental destruction..
CLOSING HAITI'S "OPEN VEINS" - RENE PREVAL'S IMPOSSIBLE MISSION (tags)
Exposing the lies and deception in the corporate media
Hidden Status- Delete Question (tags)
What process are the overworked people at LA IMC using to hide and delete stuff?
Bush's Bunker Crop of Bad News (tags)
With his supporters are slipping away as Iraq goes from horrible to worse, Bush seems to be looking for that White House bunker Nixon built.
Democrats target illegal immigration (tags)
Measure would hold employers accountable...impose fines and possible jail time for corporate leaders
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA - IT'S SPELLED C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N (tags)
US past and present policy using a broader definition of corruption
DEAR CINDY: Please, primary Hillary this year (tags)
You are in a unique position to help the anti-war movement make the Democratic Party take a stand against the war.
Open letter to John Doolittle (4th dist) about Hurwitz/Maxxam (tags)
Our regional congressman John T. Doolittle (R) for Oroville and the surrounding Sierra foothills to Modoc 4th district has along with Tom Delay & Richard Pombo prevented a federal investigation of Maxxam corporation's CEO Charles Hurwitz for the S & L collapse.
An Incredible Day in America, Indeed—But, Will We Seize the Day, Or Let It Pass? (tags)
Bush has committed an impeachable crime in authorizing domestic surveillance without a court-issued warrant, and has, in conjunction with Congress, legitimized torture for the first time in US history.
Anti-Sweatshop activists demand Levi’s take responsibility (tags)
Sweatshop Watch, a California-based coalition working to end exploitation in the garment industry, joined Billionaires for Bush, a group that uses humor and street theater to expose corporate greed to protest sweatshop labor.
Lincoln Place residents evicted with two-minutes warning (tags)
With only a two-minute warning, 52 families were put on the streets at Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice by Sheriffs and Marshals acting at the behest of corporate owner, AIMCO.
Death By Torture: US media ignores hard evidence (tags)
Military autopsy reports provide indisputable proof that detainees are being tortured to death while in US military custody. Yet the US corporate media are covering it with the seriousness of a garage sale for the local Baptist Church.
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: New Green Issues Website (tags)
Political blogger Cheryl Seal announces a new website dedicated to arming activists with the latest environmental facts, stories, resources in the fight against corporate pseudo-scientists, global warming debunkers, and arrogant politicians..
Congress Sanctions Biggest Public Land Giveaway in US History (tags)
Corporations and developers have become so over-empowered by this administration that they don't believe they should have to buy land - it should just be GIVEN to them. And thanks to creeps like Richard Pombo, they are getting what they want.
SAVE STANLEY "TOOKIE" WILLIAMS (tags)
Save Stanley "Tookie" Williams from death row. A message from Stewart Alexander
HOSTILE TAKEOVER: Texas NeoCon Attempts Haiti Coup (tags)
A Texas millionaire as president of Haiti? Is this the latest NeoCon scheme? - turning poverty stricken countries that happen to offer cheap labor and/or natural resources like oil or wood into feudal kingdoms, presided over by corporate executives who will squeeze every ounce of cash, sweat and blood from a country, then move on? In a word....EXACTLY!
Nov 8: WE WON THE NOV 8 CALIFORNIA ELECTION! (tags)
This is the beautiful day for the California ! We won every CA propositions pushed by CA Gov. Schwarzenegger and his corporate allies/anti-abortion forces, the CA voters overwhelmingly rejected Prop. 73, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 78!
A Shock and Awe Attack on American Workers (tags)
Congress has put workers the end of the list of those whose interests get protected in corporate bankruptcies. That is not just a crime, it’s a major battle in the corporate assault on working people.
Geldof, Bono and Live 8 Are Blairpoop and Bushit. (tags)
Today the U.K. newspaper The Independent published an article by Stuart Hodkinson which finally exposes the truth about Bob Geldof and Bono
THURS. 10/27: Scores of RNs, Teachers, Working Women Protest to Schwarzenegger (tags)
Scores of RNs to Protest Schwarzenegger's Special Election at Corporate-Sponsored Conference on Women Thursday What: RNs Rally to Stop Arnold Where: Long Beach Convention Center, Pine @ Bay When: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 27 Press Conference: 8 a.m. Rally: 10 a.m. Schwarzenegger Returns to Scene of Infamous 'Kicking Butts' of Nurses Comment
Forests resist global US imperialism (tags)
The ongoing devastation of forests is resisted by people everywhere who desire a healthy ecosystem for the future, not the destruction caused by the Bush regime and their corporate timber barons.
The Cost Of The Lies And The Price Of Truth Most people can't figure out that what other people say all depends on who they work for...
Real Reports of Katrina Relief: Sept. 29th Rita Edition (tags)
Yesterday I drove to the Algiers Red Cross distribution point which is located in the southern section of the Algiers neighborhood near the middle-class white section of town. As soon as I walked in, I noticed a frowning young man in a khaki shirt and black hat with a sidearm and corporate logo prominently displayed.
What is corporate America's plan for New Orleans?
New Orleans catastrophe: the product of a bankrupt system (tags)
This morning, September 1st, three of the worst looters appeared on CNN. President Bush himself along with two former presidents, Bush the father and Bill Clinton. The current Bush brought the two former one’s in as fundraisers. What hypocrites these characters are.
Anti-Commodification Effect of Bicycles (tags)
What the current establishment fears about us bicyclists is not only our freedom, but our manifested alternatives. Alternative transportation, yes, but even more - an alternative value system.
TUES. 8/30: Protest Against Schwarzenegger Fundraiser at Anaheim Angels Ballpark (tags)
Registered Nurses from the California Nurses Association (CNA) will sponsor "Nurses & Family Night at the Ballpark" opposite an Arnold Schwarzenegger fundraiser to be held during the Los Angeles Angels-Oakland A's game in Anaheim this Tuesday, August 30. Nurses will be on hand to protest Schwarzenegger's record-setting corporate fundraising and his $80 million special election which contains a variety of propositions that benefit his corporate donor to the detriment of nurses and other Californians.
What's Left? Freedom to Dream? (tags)
A new ruling by the NLRB strips workers of the right to hang out and talk with fellow workers even during coffee breaks or off the job entirely. Welcome to the new feudalism. -------------
Whoever Doesn't Really Try, Consents. (tags)
Mass symbolic, sanctioned marches that do nothing to actually change the status quo serve as painless absolution rituals, that allow the participants to “bear witness”, to “speak truth to power” and to “wash their hands of the blood of empire.” Marches, with their biting satire and snazzy costumes, do not provide a real means for stopping the carnage they deplore. A “functioning” democracy needs some form of sanctioned, orderly protest to stimulate discussion, and if the current regime were really “that bad” they wouldn’t allow big demonstrations, right? Ineffective activism, like regulated marches, actually provides a façade of healthy interchange and is welcomed by the status quo. The majority of demonstrators are aware well in advance that their actions will likely have no tangible effect on the negative of the empire, but they go to a huge rally and can sleep better at night having chanted out their guilt. Just as it can be said qui tacet consentive videtu (whoever is silent consents) it can also be said “whoever doesn’t really try, consents.”
The 9/11 Key to Political Transformation (tags)
There is now an enormous amount of scholarly evidence and expert testimony that a) clearly demonstrates the official 9/11 story is a sham, and b) supports the millions of New Yorkers who, according to a recent Zogby poll, believe that top US officials "consciously" allowed the attacks to happen and that we desperately need a new investigation now.
Coalition of Minutemen and Migrant Groups? (tags)
A coalition of Minutepeople and Migrant-rights groups working together would really get the attention needed to make this nation aware. The real illegal aliens are the corporations that cross natural and cultural borders with impunity and are destroying the environment and people’s lives in the name of “global progress.” The only border that needs protecting is the moral and practical one that will shield us from this plunder and the destruction of quality living standards in ALL countries.
Protest the Annual World Bank and IMF Meetings Sept. 23-25, 2005 Washington DC (tags)
Block the Bank! Fight the Fund! Reclaim Our Communities! Confront Economic Violence and Corporate Capitalism during the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings September 23-25, 2005 :: Washington DC :: Call for DIRECT ACTION
A Mom's FYI: Opposites Detract (tags)
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Maybe you think that it’s all just a bad dream. In a few years there will be a new President of the United States and everything will be different then. Everything will be back to normal. The bad news is, you are awake. The really bad news is, it isn’t Bush.
Thoughts on the London Bombings (tags)
A few thoughts about the London bombings that will undoubtedly not appear anywhere in the corporate media.
Richard Berman claims to help the average consumer. In fact, he works for corporate America.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IS NOW IMPEACHABLE (tags)
This is from the Portland IMC: author: Joseph Hillier The evidence of brutality, torture, murder, corruption, conspiracy, and complete contempt for all standards of human decency that is certain to come out during the impeachment of Bush and his high administrative officials will forever discredit the evil neo-con, capitalist, corporate, militarist ideology.
Parsons Corporation: War Profiteers in Pasadena (tags)
Pasadena based, Parsons Corporation, is building prisons and military bases in Iraq.
FROM OUTSIDE THE BOX: A REPORT ON THE HUMAN CONDITION (tags)
A look at the human condition from outside the box - a imaginary report filed by benevolent time travelers from another dimension whose sole mission is to identify the truth as they find it on Earth today.
J24: National Rank and File Labor Conference in Chicago: Take Back Our Unions! (tags)
A one day rank and file labor conference on Sunday, July, 24 - the day before the AFL-CIO National Convention opens in Chicago.
Tell Your Senators to Oppose Christopher Cox as New SEC Chairman (tags)
author: Lee Drutman, CitizenWorks.org Opposition to Christopher Cox as the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is mounting. But your Senators need to hear that you oppose putting this dangerous right-wing free-market ideologue in charge of the SEC.
Craig B Hulet is giving a public lecture July 8th at the Wyndham Commerce hotel in Commerce Calif. 7:30PM. See website for info.
HERO - A bushite killer speaks candidly (tags)
That is a high act of treason. And it's not, "oh well, but maybe it's not true.." No, we have the two documents of question. We have the positions that were offered to the bush administration on behalf of American intelligence. [the N.I.E.] That was their position, the bush administration censored that, re-wrote CRITICAL sentences. Fixed the intel.
A bushite killer speaks freely (tags)
Where are Americans to stand up for the Christian virtues?, That are present within any concepualizations of who God would be? Is God not Just? Would not God wish to follow the crimes scene leads at the real murder scenes to arrest the true evil doers?
Tell the FCC: stop covert commercial propaganda on TV (tags)
On May 25th, Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein gave a rousing speech about the “most pernicious symptoms” of “increasing commercialization of American media,” including product placement and corporate shills in “news” programming. Email all four FCC commissioners today to require TV stations to make “clear and prominent” disclosure of all covert commercial propaganda, including product placement and corporate shills.
Who dies in your place? (tags)
Republican Christians, do not enlist. They decide to allow thousands of non-American citizen-soldiers to die in their stead. 60,000 of these green-card holders have been serving in Iraq and Afghanistan while born-again white citizens stay home and live off their mommies and daddies.
Bush Concealing Imperialist Goals Behind Democratic Rhetoric (tags)
Webster's defines euphemeism as the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive..Capitlaism has little to do with democracy or freedom or liberty.
It's not foreign terrorism that threatens us, it's domestic corporate power and influence (tags)
We’re told to fear the evil-doers overseas, but it’s our own American corporations, greedy to avoid safety regulations and flush with campaign contributions, that really threaten us with disaster after disaster.
George Bush is a murderer! (tags)
Lizard loyalist GW Bush and skull and bones homo erect this, is a terrorist and should be shot on site going by the laws and edicts written up since his 911 mass a cure...
Saving Schiavo While Burying the Real News (tags)
The corporate media were too busy covering a demonstration by 30 fundamentalists trying to keep Shiavo from meeting her maker to bother cover ing the global and nationwide demonstrations against the U.S. Iraq War.
Venezuela: The Revolution Will Be Televised! (tags)
Free los rios from corporate agribusiness (tags)
Restoring los rios de california involves changing agriculture from corporate controlled 2 smaller scale permaculture and increasing use of drought tolerant native plants..
The Social Security Distraction Game (tags)
Left, Right, Center - not the real solution, just a distraction so they can continue pushing their real agenda - imperialism.
Playas NM New SS/OHS Training camp (tags)
Homeland Security Schutzstaffien And "Terrorists"
Good Reading....
United States government, 2005: If it walks like a goose… (Part II) (tags)
Part I (http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/020905Drolette/020905drolette.html) compared Bush administration actions to the first seven of fourteen “basic characteristics” Laurence W. Britt claims (in his article “Fascism Anyone?”) typify fascistic regimes. Here’s a similar look at the list’s back end:
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal (tags)
From tompaine.com
2004's Top War Profiteers (tags)
A list of the top corporate war profiteers from 2004.
When Bush Comes to Shove (tags)
When Bush Comes to Shove: Youth Organizing Against Right-Wing and Corporate Power. March 11-13 NYC
Drug Industry Is Being Deregulated (tags)
Are you in favor of deregulating the Drug Industry?
The Corporate Media Need Some Competition: Time for a Labor Paper! (tags)
Unions have been wasting millions every year trying in vain to get the workers’ story into the media. Forget it! It’s time for them to back an independent labor newspaper to challenge the corporate media’s lies.
The probable propaganda techniques for the next war and the reasons I believe it will be against Iran.
Coronation of Corruption (tags)
You are a slave. this is why you are a slave. Living in denial about it is of no benefit to you or to anyone else. just think about it!
Because There is No Cause (tags)
another Valenzuela must read about Iraq, war, its elections and the rise of the antiwar movement
Environmental Activist and Political Prisoner - Tre Arrow (tags)
ONE DOWN, THREE TO GO: an update from the Media as the Judge speaking tour
Coronation of Corruption (tags)
Please spread far and wide.
We have met the enemy, and it is US (corporate media) (tags)
On December 18, I attended Gary Webb’s memorial service in Sacramento, along with about 250 other people.
A Dissenter's Must-See Video - "Censored in America - 2004 in Protest" (tags)
Censored in America - 2004 in Protest by Kali Autumn Lynn Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004 at 12:49 AM kali@insurgentvoice.org 2004 Was yet another banner year for censorship and repression of free speech. Yet millions of Americans hit the streets in protest. This video shows America in action and makes you wonder, but for our sell out media, what kind of popular movement would we have today? Please go to:http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2004/12/14073.php (If this link does not function, PLEASE try the Cleveland IMC....you will love this!)
An examination of the nature of US tsunami relief aid and the reasons for the differences in corporate news coverage of wars and natural disasters.
Petrochemical corporation free Holidays (tags)
Becoming independant from petroleum corporations will help save the environment, end the US occupation of Iraq and increase local community sustainability..
Unfounded Assumptions, Elections and Propaganda (tags)
One facet of corporate propaganda is the utilization of unfounded assumptions in an attempt to justify wars or other projects of the rich and powerful. Also, so-called free elections can be used to facilitate the corporate takeover and privatization of the economies of certain countries.
Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold Exposes Corporate Scandal, Dirty Politics & His Life (tags)
In Off the Record, Jason Leopold reveals in startling detail how his desire to land the scoop at any cost ended up costing him his career.
couldn't believe what I wrote... hoped someone there might be ablel to validate this...
The New Corporate Liberation Theology. Part 1 (tags)
The US government has privatized and sold whole sectors of the Iraqi economy. Economic policy and tax laws are rewritten. Foreign firms can now buy 100 percent of Iraqi firms and export the profits. This is a blatant violation of international law...
Who Can Stop Bush? A Coalition of Other Nations. (tags)
So, we lost here, but can we prevail elsewhere?
US imperialism hits a stumbling block in Fallujah and Iraq as a whole in its drive for global hegemony and corporate control.
A MOM'S FYI: WHAT WILL I DO IF MY CHILD GETS DRAFTED? (tags)
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RECORDS FALL UNDER BUSH: THE BIG PICTURE (tags)
The U.S. Dept. of Commerce projects a record $631 billion annual trade deficit for 2004.
Ralph Nader Speech Full Text (tags)
The speech Ralph Nader gave at Creighton Univ. on 8/25/04 and a portion of the Q and A afterward. Please remember that in "safe states" you can vote your heart rather than your fears. (recommended: paste to wordpad)
Globalization & Civilization Teach-In (tags)
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Yet, it was rummy and tommy franks who TREASONOUSLY threw out the State Department's semi-thought through ORHA plan of, securing the weapon sites and preventing anarchy, and, it was the IAEA that had tabs on the weapons before the bush demon kicked them out irrationally.
Required Reading for Non-Swing-State Voters (tags)
The speech Ralph Nader gave at Creighton Univ. on 8/25/04 and a portion of the Q and A afterward. Please remember that in "safe states" you can vote your heart rather than your fears. (recommended: paste to wordpad)
Voter Apathy...or Voter Disgust? (tags)
are you a) apathetic or b) disgusted about your voting choices this time ;round? you know...people who want to be president are applying for a job. that's all.
National LGBT Business Convention Presents The LGBT Marketing Seminar (tags)
Echelon Magazine hosts the National LGBT Business Convention in Los Angeles on November 8, 2004. The Convention features The LGBT Marketing Seminar presented by the leaders in Gay and Lesbian advertising
Ralph Nader Speech Full Text (tags)
The speech he gave at Creighton Univ. on 8/25/04 and a portion of the Q and A afterward. Please remember that in "safe states" you can vote your heart rather than your fears. (recommended: paste to wordpad)
Why you should vote for Nader/Camejo! (tags)
[V]oting for Kerry doesn’t necessarily mean voting against Bush’s policies. All that Kerry has said so far shows that the goals of his presidency would look a lot like the Bush administration’s.
I Was Arrested but the Real Crime is the Corporate Hijacking of Our Democracy (tags)
Every time I engage in non-violent civil disobedience against an oppressive government, I revel in the power that we the people actually have. If more people engaged in civil disobedience more often, we would change the oppressive power structure much more quickly. I have been charged with trespassing on private property and the failure to obey a reasonable order by the police. But you and I know that the real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy.
Who is smearing Ralph Nader? Corporate law firms and lobbyists tied to big business! (tags)
The progressives and peace activists who are helping to stop Ralph Nader and Peter Miguel Camejo don't realize it but they are being used by people who represent the corporate interests, especially the military-industrial complex, of the two major parties.
Yeah?.. but what about the comments made by the bushite child killer phil smith? Maybe he'll tell us again why innocent children were targeted for murder to get rightly killed loyal enemy bushite nazi brethren?
A list of examples of propaganda in the US corporate media.
I don't know about you, but I hate bushite rapists and torturers celebrated by corporate American Talk Radio news censors. As enemies of God and all that is great with this world, the bushite bombers should be called out for a man to man fight for their core beliefs, or be rightly killed as better dead than allowed to continue in our names.
Media emergenC, San Diego, Oct 6-9th (tags)
Media EmergenC - A four day Independent Media Convergence in San Diego, October 6-9, 2004. The National Association of Broadcasters' "Radio Road Show" is in San Diego this year and Media Activists will be there to tell the NAB, "We Want Our Airwaves Back!" Join this convergence in person or virtually on the internet.
Media EmergenC, Independent Media Convergence, San Diego, Oct. 6-9, 2004 (tags)
Media EmergenC - From October 6th to the 9th, Artists, filmmakers, activists, Students, Citizen, etc. will converge in San Diego to celebrate the growing media revolution and rise-up to counter the NAB's "Radio Road Show."
This Land Is Your Land documnetary screening (tags)
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND shows that every person can make a difference, even when pitted against the enormous powers of big business. This funny and moving documentary criss-crosses the United States, interviewing experts and individuals about corporate influence on everyday life, hears how people feel their own lives have been affected, and looks at some of the brave, compelling and sometime hilarious ways in which individuals and communities are reacting.
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND screens in LA (tags)
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND shows that every person can make a difference, even when pitted against the enormous powers of big business. This funny and moving documentary criss-crosses the United States, interviewing experts and individuals about corporate influence on everyday life, hears how people feel their own lives have been affected, and looks at some of the brave, compelling and sometime hilarious ways in which individuals and communities are reacting.
Destroying enemy bushite is a gift to Humanity, it is saying you care for the lives of the innocent a bush bitch nazi grunt freely confesses to targeting for murder. Liars are the bushite, who steal Iraqi resources, allow racists and rapists to commit their demon crimes in America's name un-challenged, and who absent mindedly bomb the innocent without just reason given.
Destroying enemy bushite is a gift to Humanity, it is saying you care for the lives of the innocent a bush bitch nazi grunt freely confesses to targeting for murder. Liars are the bushite, who steal Iraqi resources, allow racists and rapists to commit their demon crimes in America's name un-challenged, and who absent mindedly bomb the innocent without just reason given.
Feed Your Alternative Media Week (tags)
A call for the people to organize public fundraisers in October to support alternative media.
Another Weapon for the Revolution! (tags)
Female emcee DAYZE returns with ‘TruthSeeker’ a hard-hitting protest album.
Corporate America’s Plan for the Future: A Nation of Retirees Left for Dead (tags)
With few people paying attention, corporate America is doing away with retiree health benefits. Couple that with the ongoing attacks on Medicaid, and the picture for the next generation of retired Americans is not pretty. So where’s John Kerry?
Bush's Convention Speech, Edited for Clarity (tags)
Attend! National Corporate Radio, a scathing parody of npr, brings you excerpts of Bush's speech at the RNC. We carefully edited this speech to more closely reflect our Great Leader's true intentions. Enjoy!
Litmus Test: Time for Kerry and Democrats to Take a Stand for Our Votes (tags)
Alan Greenspan, a banker who stands to retire on over $140,000 a year, has called for cutting the Social Security retirement benefits for Baby Boomers. It’s high time for John Kerry and the Democrats to admit that there is no such “crisis” in Social Security. All that’s needed is full Social Security taxation on the rich and the employers who pay their salaries.
San Francisco Indymedia, expanding our horizons (tags)
our new mission
Exxon/Mobil, the RNC & Widespread Nonviolent Militancy (tags)
Decentralized Direct Action Worldwide
Christianist Death Cult Destroys Global Environment (tags)
What I want to know is who came up with the term Islamist and then in uniform cult like distribution had the corporate media all adopt the word at same time to describe the main targets of the war on terrorism, oil rich nations with Muslim majorities.
Global Warming Research (tags)
New research tools (book and website) on corporate cover up of global warming
Breaking the Principled Voter (tags)
Kerry Pursues the Politics of Fear Instead of Hope CounterPunch August 7 / 8, 2004
This article is about third party politics, and the role progressives, disgruntled, and discarded voters can play in stirring our country to greener pastures.
Why do we have elections? Does it matter if there is no choice? Has anyone noticed that the political conventions have not been held, and already the parties have decided who the candidates will be with almost no input from any of the largest groups of real people: Does this matter? Hell no how can it matter when people don't actually matter at all, to either of the major political groups, or in any other context in the USA today. We are officially nothing. Welcome to the world of zero influence!
2004: Year of the Documentary (& Hopefully, Political Reform) (tags)
(mini reviews of "The Corporation" "Control Room" "Orwell Rolls in His Grave" and "Uncovered")
Corporate Boards lacking minorities and Independence (tags)
At Boston-area companies, minority board directors are truly in the minority: 2.5% are African-American, 1.4% are Asian, >1% are Latino, and none are Native American.
Top 100 'poor' on social impact (tags)
A new report by a pro-business consultancy reveals corporate responsibility is sorely lacking among the world's top 100 firms, especially in the US.
Enron's part in the corruption of a Governor (tags)
The Connecticut Governorship floated on river of corruption, fed by the profits of Enron.
The People's Media Reaches More People Than FOX Does (tags)
While Big Media is "simply in the business of selling products, the people's media reaches more people than FOX does.
Community garden soil phytoremediation (tags)
Starting a permaculture community garden on a contaminated landspace involves phytoextraction, using plants like Brassica juncea to remove the heavy metals like lead from the soil..
Adbusters Unbrand America (tags)
For this July 4th, Adbusters Media Foundation has launched a campaign to Unbrand America. The Corporate American Flag is set to fly across the nation and around the world. There are four ways to get involved. Join the call.
ELI LILLY EMPLOYEE RACISM (tags)
UNCOVER ALL THE HIDDEN RACISM IN MAJOR DRUG COMPANY. IF YOU THOUGHT WE HAD AN ISSUE WITH PROZAC JUST LISTEN TO HOW THEY TREAT THIER OWN EMPLOYEES.
Corporate Greed In Health (tags)
Some short notes from health care column in the Peoples Weekly World on corporate greed in health care.
Mistakes that are not mistakes in reality, but part of a strategy of US global domination and apologies that are insincere or ludicrous.
Goldsborough’s column Outstanding. (tags)
James Goldsborough columns outstanding. Beat all big shot East Coast pundits hands down. Corporate Media full of cowards and puppets. Corporate opinion pages dubiously slanted.
Oaks and Wild Rice; NO GMO (tags)
When GMO corporate crops are pushed on people as the only solution to world hunger, we are neglecting the many wild food plants that can sustain people without continuing the cycle of corporate dependency started by spray herbicide/pesticides and continued into GMO patented crops. Wild native food plants can sustain people's health without corporate control.
Benefit and Informational Meeting for this June's SF Mobilization at Arts in Action, LA (tags)
*Please forward widely* Benefit and Informational Meeting for the June Reclaim the Commons/Anti-G8 SF Mobilization Thursday, May 27, 7PM Arts in Action (1919 W. 7th St., 4th Floor, Los Angeles CA) $5 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
How Many Gods in One Heaven? (tags)
Analysis of the Fourth World War in the Middle East
Sony Music Entertainment Coporate Security on Indymedia? (tags)
Did the asset protection division of Sony Music Entertainment corporate security publish an article on Indymedia Los Angeles? This defence of Mr. Michael Jackson reeks of being a professional job.
Predictable Torture of Iraqi Prisoners (tags)
The occurrence of torture is a deliberate strategy of counterinsurgency warfare and not the isolated acts of deranged, sadistic soldiers.
5/2, San Francisco: Reclaim the Commons Spokescouncil (tags)
SHUT DOWN CORPORATE POWER! SHUT-DOWN THE CORPORATE/POLITICAL MACHINE on June 8! First Spokescouncil May 2nd 4-6 pm San Francisco St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Drive
Civic Cinema: A Mini-Festival of Politically-Minded Documentaries (tags)
The documentaries in this series are immediate responses to scary times. It's cinema at its most democratic and relevant.
Michael Jackson Versus Corporate Rape (tags)
Even if Michael Jackson is guilty does this mean that he ought be publicly persecuted by Corporate News Media? Does this mean that every rumor mongering media hound and paparazzi person ought indulge their predilection for dirt as they stalk around to find it? Is this not a major reason that many fans are cheering him on against the unfair exploitation of press? We now know the weasel motives of the press corps’ prostration to the Iraq war will no stories or photography.
Michael Jackson Versus Corporate Rape (tags)
Even if Michael Jackson is guilty does this mean that he ought be publicly persecuted by Corporate News Media? Does this mean that every rumor mongering media hound and paparazzi person ought indulge their predilection for dirt as they stalk around to find it? Is this not a major reason that many fans are cheering him on against the unfair exploitation of press? We now know the weasel motives of the press corps’ prostration to the Iraq war will no stories or photography.
Pat Tillman: Hero or Wasted Life? (tags)
An argument against calling American soldiers engaged in an illegal and immoral war "heroes" as is done continuously by the corporate media. This is even more so in wars that leave a radioactive legacy of cancers and deformed children like the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Country Joe Band, 2004: 'Uncle Sam Needs Your Help Again' (tags)
Taking the stage at a community center in the small Northern California town of Bolinas, a group of four musicians quickly showed themselves to be returning as a vibrant creative force centered very much in the present.
Hydrogen HUMvee Highway 2 martial law (tags)
Arnold's recent visit 2 UC Davis heralded his hydrogen highway HUMvee plan 4 CA. The water needed 4 the hydrogen fuel cells no doubt diverted from the local rivers?
Corporate Media Sexplotation verses Janet and Michael Jackson (tags)
Janet Jackson’s dirty dancing? Americans need to focus on broadcaster’s istic tendency to exploit stories no matter how trivial, embarrassing, or consequential. With what motivations does Corporate News focus their perpetual supply of dirty laundry? They never address how they psychologically rape people by humiliating them in print. How shame based do we have to be?
Why does Kerry sound like Bush? (tags)
According to the logic of the Democratic Party establishment and their mouthpieces, the only candidate that can beat Bush is the one that’s just as tough as Bush. As for people who actually want to see an end to Bush’s rotten reign--people who opposed the war on Iraq and Bush’s giveaways to Corporate America--they should keep quiet, while Kerry moves to the right to look for more votes.
Logic, Mythology and the Iraq War (tags)
The logical reasons why George W. Bush's rationalizations for the Iraq war are asinine and the discussions by pundits and so-called experts on corporate television are based on false assumptions and are ridiculous as well.
Stop Baphomet - Stop Corporate Onslaught (tags)
Five important dates not to be forgotten. Time is money(for them) - stop the corporate onslaught. Electronic warfare against the criminal banking cartel - stop the corporate onslaught. On Thursday 22nd of April, on Wednesday 28th of April, on Tuesday 4th of May, on Wednesday 12th of May and on Tuesday 18th of May.
Exxon/Mobil, the RNC & Widespread Nonviolent Militancy (tags)
Please do not load the summary box with more than 6 or so lines. Your text has been moved to the article section. Thanks, Independant Media Center Exxon/Mobil, the RNC & Widespread Nonviolent Militancy “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” -- Benito Mussolini “If elected, I will run the government like a business” -- George W. Bush
The elite corporate media thinks that the masses that are stupid, it is they who are stupid for believing the corrupt corporate pr machine.
Post-9/11 Political Hip Hop (tags)
Fuck Clearchannel and MTV. This is the real shit.
A Tangled Web of Lies about Iraq (tags)
The continuous succession of lies about Iraq and the ever-changing rationalizations for an immoral and illiegal war against Iraq.
Mass Action at the Halliburton shareholder's meeting May 19 Houston (tags)
mass action stop war profiteering
The propaganda value of the Fallujah incident and a case for who the real barbarians are in Iraq.
Kerry catches tax cut mania (tags)
It is highly unlikely that tax breaks would spur much job-creating investment, since employers are reluctant to expand operations while facing overcapacity in almost every industry. Utilization of industrial capacity hit a 20-year low of 74 percent last year, and is barely higher today. Instead of adding jobs, employers are squeezing more from fewer workers, while allowing little or no wage growth.
call to action against the commodification of life in San Francisco June 3-9
The fallacy of the 'anybody but Bush' movement (tags)
Just because Bush is a reactionary, that does not make Kerry a progressive. In fact Kerry, or whoever might have been chosen by the Democratic Party as a candidate to take over the running of the capitalist state, would be a solid representative of U.S. imperialism whose goal would be to strengthen and expand its domination on the world arena.
THE Conglomerate Homogenous Unilateral Military-MEDIA, POLICE. STATE “CHUMPS” They’re so FUNNY: They kill ya. First they: stupefy you with: BU__! SH__! Then they bomb ya. GOD enslave the KING King George II
An open letter to the Bush Administration, Skull and Bones, and all imperialists. I'm pretty sure it will elicit angry responses for its friendly tone, but actually the letter puts these criminals on notice.
An interesting article, considering the upcoming protests (tags)
A very interesting perspective on contemporary protesting.
GOP-Corporate PAC funded TX take-over, perhaps illegally (tags)
The group gained financial traction largely by tapping Warren Robold, a Washington-based fund-raiser already affiliated with Americans for a Republican Majority, a political arm of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Sugar Land.
March 20 and corporate structure (pt.2) (tags)
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March 20 and the corporate structure of our protests (tags)
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Nader Commands Small But Loyal Following (tags)
Terence Courtney, 32, a black community organizer in Atlanta, said he supports Nader because he wants "a shift in the way we allocate our resources so it goes mostly to working people, people of color, women and children and less on building weapons and bombs." Unlike the Democrats, Courtney said, Nader "is telling the truth about the relationships between the government, the military and the corporations."
It's Time to Break From the Two-Party System! (tags)
Despite all the propaganda from the "Anybody But Bush" Democrats, George Bush would never have been able to carry out his attacks without the active support of the Democratic Party. It was the Democrats in Congress who voted to support Bush's "war on terrorism," the war on Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, the Iraq war, and the $87 billion for the occupation of Iraq. Most Democrats voted for Bush's tax cuts for the rich and "No Child Left Behind." Sixteen Senate Democrats, including Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, voted for Bush's "Partial Birth Abortion" Ban.
Deep ecology, bike carts 4 organic gardens (tags)
water, air, tierra y forests do not belong to any corporation, when oxygen is sold in smog ridden cities, our human right to clean air is sold as a commodity. Coca-cola claims ownership of aquifers in chiapas, making agua into a luxury 4 the wealthy. We reclaim the forests, air and water for all living beings, not the property of corporations.
No words from the bushites who rule our communications through corporate news censorship, while Christian parents call out unheard: why has corporate america allowed forsaken soldiers to eat plutonium to murder God for a measly few dollars the bushmob will pocket for the up coming "unbiased" re-election news campaign?
March 20 and the corporate structure of our protests (tags)
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The Democratic Party is not a vehicle for ending corporate control of our lives. It is an obstacle to building a new society.
CoupsRUS: Haiti and Venezuela (tags)
An argument that the CIA is involved in both Haiti and Venezuela and the techniques they use to overthrow governments.
Kucinich: the most unreported story of 2004 (tags)
The most underreported story of the 2004 election is the never-give-up, never-give-in campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for president. With considerable grassroots support, the Ohio lawmaker has carried his message of world peace, jobs, equality and universal health care across the country. He has done it in the face of a near-total corporate media blackout http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/4838/1/204/
just something i got off the ralp nader for 2004 website
The Climate Change HOAX! (tags)
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing billions of lives in natural disasters and famine if nothing is done about it. Eon’s report warns that major European cities, such as Venice and Amsterdam will be sunk under the sea as Europe is roasted by a 'Tropical' climate by 2020. L.A. will get cooler.
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: Iraq's New War: Blackmarket Bloodshed and Corporate Intrigue (tags)
Who has been targeting Iraq's police and military? The likely culprits are, mysteriously, not even being mentioned as a possibility by Bush or the media
Corporation as Psychopath (tags)
Management guru, Peter Drucker: "If you find an executive who wants to take on social responsibilities, fire him. Fast." chair of the libertarian Cato Institute, William Niskanen: says that he would not invest in a company that pioneered in corporate responsibility.
Cynthia Matthews for Congress (tags)
This is an interesting candidate going up against a long-term corporate Republican.
"The Corporations Are Coming! The Corporations Are Coming!" (tags)
integrity is evidenced from his remarks in an interview about sitting in on democratic meetings and seeing what goes on, he said they make all their decisions based on polls ?? "It's Sick", he said. I have a message for these wayward writers who are taking turns, in a deliberate, orchestrated smear campaign to impugn a modern-day prophet and refuse to recognize, and hence INSULT, the burdgeoning grassroots movement arising from the awakened masses. HERE is The Message---this beautiful movement can only be delayed ,Never stopped because it has Founding Father energy and LightWorkers and healers who Love this Land and the principles of Liberty, Equality and Unity and are working very hard to co-create a New Covenant to give to posterity ! We are alive, real and in tune with the higher cause of our existence.
NAB Counter-Conference - Autonomous Media Convergence (tags)
Think corporate media SUCKS??? Tired of media LIES??? Tired of the same old thing on the radio???
Library Sets Up Shrine To Corporate Thieves (tags)
As corportate-controlled state and Federal governments slash basic services to fund military and tax breaks for the rich, Long Beach Library worships Vons, other exploiters.
The Shocking Super Bowl Breast (tags)
The difference between my view of morality and that of the corporate media.
WE QUIT:Response to US Empire (tags)
How do we chant down Babylon system of oppression? End corporate imperialist US empire global domination?
Corporate Child Abuse In The US - Special Screening Today! (tags)
Pigopolist corporations plan public humiliation of children on coast-to-coast TV this Sunday.
Arundhati Roy's Speech at the WSF (tags)
In the great cities of Europe and America, where a few years ago these things would only have been whispered, now people are openly talking about the good side of Imperialism and the need for a strong Empire to police an unruly world.
state and corporate interests collude to militarize and colonize space
[then subverted to steal American lives with by lying] (tags)
Demon Bush replied, "No, the intelligence I operated on [then subverted to steal American lives with by lying] was good, sound intelligence."
Solidarity With Los Indigenos en Morelos (tags)
Zapatisitas in Tlalnepantla, Morelos declared their town an autonomous zone and are being responded to with violence by the Mexican government. Anytime a group declares independence from a repressive government corporation, they undermine the capitalist elite's profit base. Money is behind the Mexican government's land grab..
The New White Supremacy in the Corporate Media (tags)
With NBC publishing their full-page color ad in The New York Times today illustrating who and how MSNBC will be covering what the ad titled as the "Battle for the White House" NBC has illustrated their commitment to news by whites and therefore, for whites. It wouldn't be so bad if the ad and NBC's news reporting practice illustrated a reasonable balance of coverage but it most certainly does not and for that matter nor does any other corporate network broadcasting America today.
Some thoughts on fear, intimidation and Martin Luther King Jr.
Idiot Bastard Son of Lies (tags)
Fear and the Bush presidency
Message to Congress: Extend jobless benefits (tags)
WASHINGTON – The New Year was a time of revelry for the corporate rich as government reports confirmed a surge in profits and productivity in the final quarter of 2003. George W. Bush trumpeted the news as proof that his trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy has pulled the nation out of recession.
We Must Do What We Can 2 (tags)
The time for action is now, are you human enough to answer the call?
"When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History" by Thom Hartmann Published on Sunday, March 16, 2003 by CommonDreams.org The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.
Camejo on Green approach to 2004 election (tags)
[The following statement was initiated by Peter Miguel Camejo. He is a life-long fighter for social justice who was the Green candidate for Governor in California in the 2002 general elections and in the 2003 recall election.]
Preventive War, Common Security and the State (tags)
Does the return of preventive war as a "norm" of international relations take the world back to before July 1914, and if so, what are the likely consequences? What does this tell us about the state system and the prospects for human survival?
Peter Camejo: The Avocado Declaration (tags)
A statement on third parties in the US political system.
The stupefaction of a nation (tags)
Corporate media propaganda and its weapons of mass distraction
Don't kill bush for me, do it for Jesus (tags)
Demon bush must not, under any circumstances, be allowed to survive from his evil onslaught he has criminally dictated against our God and Humanity as war mongering monster liar.
Guerrilla labeling against corporate music (tags)
As part of a broad-spectrum attack involving activists, independent musicians, and programmers, Downhill Battle (downhillbattle.org) has begun guerrilla labeling actions in "big box" music retailers like as Walmart, Best Buy, and Target.
Corporate news censorship on our top priority world issues, such as the bush demon wars, are our rights to be heard over the evil wicked lies excused, as not relevant, or of YOUR dying concern.
Genetic engineered crops future side effects (tags)
Genetically engineered foods side effects can appear decades after their initial introduction in the mid 90's. Just like nuclear waste, petrochemical pollution (DDT bioaccumulation, smog, global warming) and other technofix nightmares, genetically engineered crops can still be prevented from causing further damage..
How British Charity Was Silenced On Iraq (tags)
One of Britain's most high-profile charities was ordered to end criticism of military action in Iraq by its powerful US wing to avoid jeopardising financial support from Washington and corporate donors, a Guardian investigation has discovered. Internal emails reveal how Save the Children UK came under enormous pressure after it accused coalition forces of breaching the Geneva convention by blocking humanitarian aid.
Let'em Eat Cake - Citizens Ripped-Off Big Time (tags)
"Let'em Eat Cake", that's the message from Washington/AARP, now identified as, American Association of Repugnant Pimps; per the Bill written-of, for, and by the pharmaceutical companies. I take exception to the fact that we are paying the salaries of legislators and for the upkeep of the marbled halls of corporate government. The executive board rooms of the pharmaceuticals, oil, gas, electric etc., would be better suited to the privatization of government on all levels. Let them pay for the heating, lights and perks.
Americans are forbidden to know... (tags)
Here's what a bushite's granmom's tax payment is going towards, minus the 1.5 billion per month of 4 that is secretly STOLEN by the bushmob as something Americans are forbidden to know of through their corporate news censorship stealing their very own demeaned values, dying.
The Corporate Media's Numbers Racket (tags)
he number of times the corporate media have published articles, radio and television news stories about and interviewed Gov. Howard Dean on his run for the presidency of the United States of America compared to the other candidates running in the Democratic party presidential nomination process is running at approximately 30% more in Governor Dean’s favor.
Why are they trying to stop the world from seeing the documentary “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?”
Doom & Delusion In TheShadow Of Rome (tags)
t's as if our entire colonial experiment, known as "America" had been bought at an auction without our consent, as slaves were sold not so long ago. Unfortunately, the highest bidders happened to be the multinational arms manufacturers, oil companies, and drug pushers. Now, with the protection of the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, etc. and their neofascist "Homeland Security" Department which bundles them together, these extremely wealthy elitists feel they can get away with anything, kill as many people as they like and have their media paint it as heroism, take away an entire nation and replace it with profitable industrial dictatorship and call this "democracy." It would all be laughable if it weren't so deadly.
Building Bridges Radio-The Southern California Supermarket Strike/Lockout (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK
Bush Toady Tom Daschle Shows HIs True Colors: YELLOW & GREEN! (tags)
"Leading Democrats" Tom Daschle announced he plans to vote FOR the infamous Bush-Cheney energy bill - the biggest corporate giveaway in US history. Is it any wonder the public is chronically disgusted and enraged by the untrustworthiness and spinelessness of the Democratic party???
Dump Daschle - a view of the corporate welfare energy bill (tags)
No, the energy legislation in the U.S. Senate is corporate welfare, plain and simple, and the man who should be leading the fight to change it has once again demonstrated his inability to do the right thing.
Anti-Globalize the Corporate Globalization Movement - DO IT NOW! (tags)
Meme warfare through entertainment. (tags)
Resistance begins in the mind.
‘Free trade’ scam:‘It’s bad for workers everywhere’ (tags)
“We’ll be marching with truck drivers and electrical workers, nurses and teachers, health care workers and Teamsters, all kinds of working people,” Fred Frost, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO, told the Miami Herald.
Cracking the Media Walls (tags)
A key advantage held by the Right is a "mass-media echo chamber," from which stories are spun via outlets like the Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Weekly Standard and Fox News. Progressives have nothing comparable at the national level.
An Open Letter to America: It's Time to Take Back Our Country (tags)
39,000 bombs later, no weapons of mass destruction uncovered, no dangerous dictators captured, no connection to Sept 11. What have we gained but relentless media coverage of a fallen statue and some stolen oil fields -- the spoils of this misadventure. Not to mention lucrative corporate payoffs and an enormous price tag of over 80 Billion dollars . . . some tax cut.
Protecting U.S. Oil Interests in Iraq. (tags)
In the short term, through the Development Fund and the Export-Import Bank programs, the Iraqi peoples’ oil will finance U.S. corporate entrees into Iraq. In the long term, Executive Order 13303 protects anything those corporations do.
The Future of America under the American-led Empire: A Realistic Sense of it. (tags)
That it is high-tech, well lighted, air conditioned and instantly gratifying in such a gratuitous fashion, will make it seem, to many, a benign kind of tyranny. A kind of benevolent beast. These four horsemen will seemingly come bearing new gifts for all.
Double life of the GOP: Corporatists and Conservative-libertarians (tags)
President Bush made his fortune by getting Texas taxpayers to pay for the Texas Rangers's new baseball stadium. His government now expands corporate welfare on the backs of individual taxpayers, while allowing huge tax escapes for large multinational corporations.
The Corporate Media Engineers an Election By the Numbers (tags)
Never has there ever been a more profound example of the corporate media engineering an election and yes I mean a more profound example than even election 2000.
TURKISH CABINET DECISION TO SEND TROOPS TO IRAQ. (tags)
Proof that the Corporate Media can't handle the truth, especially now that the Turks are in bed with the Americans. Kiss and make up ?
The U.S. and Israel's Criminal Intent and October 25th. (tags)
But the question is not whether the public can see the criminal behavior of these regimes but rather, where do these regimes go from here?
Press gives Arnold a cakewalk re trashing women publicly (tags)
Arnie's dirty details not repeated in corporate wash.
Long Beach Library Honors Corporate Pirates (tags)
Long Beach honors profiteers for sharing a small part of what they have looted from working people.
The Intimidation of Ambassador Wilson and Ms. Plame and 76 Days. (tags)
Considering it was the corporate media that published Bob Novak's column that outed Ms. Plame as a "CIA operative" in order to punish and intimidate her husband, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson for not playing ball with the Bush regime, how can anybody expect the corporate media to now report objectively about a conspiracy the corporate media participated in.
Wesley Clark: Hero or Villain? (tags)
The hidden and ignored recent history of Yugoslavia and its relevance to the presidential candidacy of Wesley Clark.
Protest the WTO at the US/Mexico Border this Saturday! (tags)
If you can't make it to Cancun, we call on people throughout the United States to join together at the San Diego/Tijuana border on September 13th to resist the WTO and the failed model of corporate globalization.
Why democrats act like republicans (tags)
But yourself in the shoes of a democratic politician: you need support. You need voters, volunteers, and donations. You try to move left. But people on the left join third parties, choose not to vote, or don't even care. So what can you do?
Let's talk about "Collateral Damage". Where did this term come from? How did collateral damage become the description for civilian deaths in what have been illegal wars perpetrated by America?
The "special interests" behind Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign (tags)
While Schwarzenegger has criticized Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante for taking money from unions and Indian tribes, the Republican candidate has collected at least $2.5 million from individual donors, attorneys, business interests, venture capitalists and California companies. Some of them employ full-time lobbyists in Sacramento.
CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: Bush Anti-Terrorism "Medicine": Only the Drug Lords Win (tags)
While Bush is handing out over $10 billion to "anti-terrorism" programs designed to enrich a few pharmaceutical corporations, cities and states go begging - Just $1 billion has been tossed them, to be divided among all 50 states, to cover the cost of anti-terrorism public health upgrades for over 260 million Americans.
Pacifica's New Bylaws: A Victory for All of Us (tags)
The third (of five) radio station advisory boards voted Saturday for an historic set of bylaws for the Pacifica radio network. This was the last hurdle required under a Settlement Agreement to get the anti-war network back on track, and ends a period of vicious acrimony within the Pacifica community, which has important reprecussions for all Independent media in the United States.
9/11 Book Author Doug Kellner: An Interview (tags)
Text of recent e-mail interview with From 9/11 to Terror War Author Doug Kellner
This Christmas season should be designated as "Boycott Corporate America Time"! (tags)
Nov. 28-Dec. 24, 2003-This is the time when economic direct action against corporate America will be most effective!
The Great Myth of US Benevolence (tags)
A few thoughts about the reluctance of many Americans to accept the realities of US imperialism.
The Degrradation of Work in Long Beach (tags)
Long Beach tells its employees to act like perky cheerleaders, flirt with sex offenders.
Bush Order Makes Corporate Anarchy Viable In Iraq (tags)
AN EXECUTIVE ORDER can be a surreptitious way of making policy. It often makes an end-run around Congress and frequently escapes the media's attention as well. It is, in short, a way of making policy by fiat. Now, a potentially explosive executive order has just been discovered by SEEN, the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network. Signed on May 22, it appears to give U.S. oil companies in Iraq blanket immunity from lawsuits and criminal prosecution.
Can't make to cancun,protest at the sd/TJ border! (tags)
Cross border protest against free trade! Call to action!
Updated: Call for a padded bloc at the Nov. 20-21 FTAA meetings in Miami (tags)
updated information on organizing for a padded contingent for the Nov. 20-21st FTAA meetings in Miami (with endorsers, logistics, and more) This contingent will take action with a determination to disrupt the meetings.
"What is George W. hiding?" redux (tags)
Editor's note, July 8, 2000: The word coming through the media grapevine is that no matter what George W. Bush did in the past or does between now and November 7, he is to be given a pass by the corporate media.
Palast interviews retired Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett of the Texas Air National Guard (TANG), who states on camera that shortly after George W. became Texas' governor in the 1990s, he witnessed a speakerphone call from the Texas governor's office to TANG, and overheard the caller tell Guard officers to "clean [Bush's] records from his files." Palast says that after the call, Burkett "asked the officers if they'd carried out the questionable orders, and they said 'absolutely.'
some IMC principles.... (tags)
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As the Bush Regime Falls, What About Iraq, Afghanistan and We The People? (tags)
With the New York Times publishing in today's paper the "Uranium Quicksand" editorial and with Paul Krugman's op-ed piece "Pattern of Corruption" it looks as though the beginning of the end of the Bush regime is upon us.
Media Leviathan, U.S. Intelligence Form Secret Cabal (tags)
A quiet gathering of the media’s top elites to discuss mergers, with a keynote address by the head of the CIA, escaped mention in the mainstream press.
Corporate Subliminal Collusion: How the Bilderberg Pulls the Strings (tags)
In our ostensibly civilized society we forget that corporations are not moral or ethical entities. If you think I'm too critical, consider the following. Back in the early days of the blue-collar labor movement workers were actually dying on the job. Preventable explosions and mine collapses occurred regularly. 20, 40, even 80 and more miners at a time lost their lives.
Bush Wants To Bankrupt America: There is Method To His Madness (tags)
This plan is so obvious at this point that it is hard to believe because it is happening so fast and the Democrats and even conservative non- neo-con Republicans don't realize what Bush and his neo-con buddies are up to.
Declare Independence From Corporate Media (tags)
Celebrate July 4th By Declaring Independence From Corporate Media
An analysis of the cliches used to justify US interventions and war crimes in other countries.
Listen to the MOCKINGBIRD (tags)
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
A bastard's manifesto: A call for corporate perestroika (tags)
Corporations are really all about colonialism, and the hyperinflation of their power through a top-heavy distribution of wealth must eventually tip over if our species is truly humane and democratic.
Independence from Corporate Media Week (tags)
see below
POG Call to action for a padded bloc this Nov in Miami, stop the FTAA (tags)
Call to action for the FTAA meetings this November in miami! As a part of what is sure to be a multitude of tactics, POG is sending out this call specifically for a padded contingent. We envision a total shutdown of the meetings through the combination of diverse tactics.
Celebrate July 4th by Declaring Independence from the Corporate Media! (tags)
Fed up with the mainstream media's lies, omissions and distortions? It's time to send them a message: we're not taking it anymore. During Independence Day week - June 30-July 6, 2003 - join with thousands of others across the country and put your daily newspaper subscription on hold, turn off your TV, and act to support independent media!
About the "Kill a cop for the cause!" Redding Murder Case - Pt. 2 (tags)
The man who killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, CA claims immunity because he was incorporated.
Why come to Sacramento? (tags)
A major grassroots mobilization and convergence is planned in Sacramento from June 20-25. This is an opportunity for people to say no to a genetically engineered future, and to voice instead a living world vision, rooted in social justice and ecological sanity. It is also a chance to stand in solidarity with the people's movements and hundreds of peasant farmers groups from around the world that have called on social movements in the US to denounce and protest this meeting.
Clear Channel Is A Subsidiary Of Bush, Inc (tags)
t's no coincidence that Clear Channel executives Tom Hicks and L. Lowry Mays have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaign coffers. Or that Clear Channel gave $119,370 in "soft money" to Republicans in 2001-2002, this on top of the $82,850 it gave in 2000. (Democrats, meanwhile, got $25,000 in soft money in that same three-year period.)
Clear Channel Bush INC. (tags)
Why the land of the brave is becoming the land of the slave.
Only SLAVES and CORPORATIONS need to use capitalization of their names. Better check your ID to make sure they haven't used capital letters, otherwise your a slave without any rights... yes thats right!! check Roman Law
BUILDING INDEPENDENT MEDIA 2 (tags)
A Call to Converge on October 10-11, 2003 In Burlington, Vermont
Mobilize Against US Agri-Imperialism (tags)
HUNGRY FOR JUSTICE? Want to resist the WTO, US Empire and Corporate Globalization? Fed up with genetically engineered trees, food, fish, future? Believe that access to healthy food and clean water is a fundamental human right?
FOUR DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST BECHTEL (tags)
Plan an action at the LA office on June 5th!FOUR DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST BECHTEL AND THE CORPORATE INVASION OF IRAQ June 1 – June 5, 2003
Ralph Nader Live on C-SPAN Washington Journal (tags)
POST-WAR IRAQ, CORPORATE WAR PROFITEERS, US CORPORATE CRIME WAVE, and more...
BTL:GOP Energy Legislation Offers Corporate Subsidies to Build New... (tags)
...U.S. Nuclear Power Plants. Interview with Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus.
4 important dates not to be forgotten (tags)
Electronic warfare against the criminal banking cartel - stop the corporate onslaught. On Friday 2nd of May, on Thursday 15th of May, on Wednesday 21st of May and on Wednesday 28th of May.
The Future of Alternative Media in America? Funding! (tags)
As America comes out of its shock and awe after September 11, 2001 and begins to sober up, Americans will be and are in definite need of information
The Rise of the Third Reich and Bush (tags)
This is why he projects his shadow on Saddam Hussein.
JULY 4 Candlelight Vigil for the Constitution of the U.S. and the Bill of Rights (tags)
In light of repression by the police of residents in Arab Communities; In light of criminalization of anti-war protestors, and in light of the complicity of the corporate media with the war crimes of the Bush Administration, this response addresses these issues in a creative and non-violent, yet assertive manner.
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History (tags)
To the extent that our Constitution is still intact, the choice is again ours.
War for the rest of your lives (tags)
Endless war
Oil for White People! Woohoo, Dead Iraqi Children Now! (tags)
It seems that the corporate press cabal of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Regime controlled NPR and just about every major newspaper in America sets policy for press coverage week to week
Hey War Dudes, Lighten Up! (tags)
Art needs to work a little harder.
I'm fed up with those soft trendy vieodgraphic cyber-circulars.
CNN (and other corporate media) NET STRIKE (tags)
Info re CNN net strike; reposted from other IMC sites.
Photos of Killed and Captured GIs (tags)
Photos from Al Jazeera that US corporate media won't show us.
WATCH OUT for the WORDS!!! (tags)
Watch out for these words on CORPORATE MEDIA!!!
BECOME THE MEDIA!!! I need help to do it though. Help please!!!!
Anyone can help stop the propaganda machine (tags)
Join the CNN net-strike this weekend and others likely to follow. Visit this webpage and help us show "overwhelming"support for corporate media and encourage more anti-war coverage.
Old Europe greets New America! (tags)
Message from germany: I am one of hundred thousands antiwar activists in germany. Lets join together in a worldwide movement against war and capitalism! Together we have the power to smash the plutocracy and her servants worldwide! Lets work together to end this bloody war!
Biotic Baking Brigade Strikes Corporate Media (tags)
BBB strikes: pies for the lies of the corporate-military-media system.
Italy, 200.000 peasants rally in Roma this friday morning (tags)
this friday morning in Roma 200.000 peasants rallied under the flags of corporate unions
Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are preparation for invasion of Iran. (tags)
The ultimate purpose for the invasion of Iraq is not Iraq or Iraq's oil. There is ample evidence, from sources available to the public, to indicate that Iraq is not the real goal. Like Afghanistan, Iraq is being taken in preparation for the invasion of Iran.
SHUT DOWN THE CORPORATE MEDIA! (tags)
The U.S. corporate media is effectively the dis-information arm of the U.S. military.
Richard Perle is a Director of the Jerusalem Post (tags)
Corporate directors are nearly always called on to make important and sometimes difficult decisions regarding the personnel and policy of the business that they are directing. What standards apply to this seeming "conflict of interest," where Perle, who heads an important federal advisory panel, is also a director of a company which owns a media outlet in a foreign country ??
The PNAC and it`s connection to the Bush Wars (tags)
Who pulls the strings in US foreign policy< what are their goals and who pays the price.
Afghanistan and Iraq - preparation for invasion of Iran (tags)
The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq are preparation for the invasion of Iran. The goal is control of the most profitable export route for transport of Caspian oil to the fastest growing and soon to become the most profitable oil market, East Asia
Global Women's Strike and March In LA (tags)
Today, March 8 2003, an estimated 2000 people rallied in front of the federal building to support the global women's stike in condemnation of the plans for an upcoming war.
EMAIL: leveraging Indy to stop the war (tags)
We are in the final days. The Washington Post is reporting that U.S. and British forces are ready to fight. Take collective action now!
Photos from Taco Bell Convergence 2-28 (tags)
Rally at Taco Bell Corporate Headquarters, Irvine California. Photos from Yesterdays Taco Bell Convergence
Crimes of War and Crimes of Press Media: Bolivarian Republics of Colombia & Venezuela (tags)
Billionaire corporados control world's media, cause death of democracy & millions of people. Their crimes in the Andes means people worldwide must seize the presses, crush elite, remake the world. USA cornered & vulnerable - revolution whenever we want. We onlywant the world... Why wait. US out!
Come to the Beehive Collective Presentation on Plan Colombia (tags)
COME WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH TO THE REACH CENTER IN LONG BEACH for a presentation about the connections between colonization, militarization, and resource extraction in the Andean Region of South America.
USA Bad Boys: Blackmail and US Intervention in latin America (tags)
US addictions haunt and terrorize world: OIL, WEAPONS, DRUGS. US BAD BOYS and friends in Latin America held power for decades. Now they are run out of town by Hugo Chavez, people of Bolivia and New Ideas. Guns and Money aren’t enough anymore–Hope lives –Struggle Consumes…
Building Bridges Radio:Lufthansa U.S. Subsidiary-An Employer from Hell (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community Labor Report presents this 26 min program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK. Building Bridges is broadcast Mondays 4-5pm PT over WBAI in NYC & streamed at http://www.2600.com/offthehook/hot2.ram
After reading Indymedia and listening to Pacifica Radio, I soon realized that activists have their own jargon and vocabulary. They use common words that have different meanings to them. In an effort to help new readers get up to speed, I've prepared an English translation.
Terror Level Threat to be Sponsored By Looney Toons (tags)
A satirical news story about one possibile way to reduce the federal deficit.
Resisting "Complexity Management" (tags)
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Upgrade to the Green Party's 10 Key Values (tags)
You can have the very same idea and describe it where it is appealing, confusing or appalling. The current language is a good document if you are talking to the choir, but those folks are already on board. If we are going to have real political impact we need to seek the middle class, disenfranchised voter.
Michael Parenti Article: To Kill Iraq: The Reasons Why (tags)
Arguments against a war on Iraq by noted political analyst and author Michael Parenti.
The Corporate Media Make War on the Birthday of the Prince of Peace (tags)
With neo-Liberals like Steve Case keeping a tight leash on CNN and the board of directors of neo-Liberal corporations of General Electric, Disney and Westinghouse controlling the rest of the main outlets of information to our television based culture.
Whole Lotta Lott Goin' On (tags)
Media Propaganda & Censorship 101
Bu$h Family Plutocracy... WHITE HOUSE ... LAWN SALE ... now going on (tags)
also... SEE em on TV... bu$h family gangsters - WAR-drob - GANG COLORS - OIL BLACK SUITS with BLOOD RED TIES... http://www.rogerart.com/Bu$h%20WASH%20ROOM%20777%20pg.htm
The needs of the few apparently outweigh the needs of the many when it comes to quenching California's thirst
IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH FROM WHITEHOUSE (tags)
NEWSFLASH Mr. Bush's new criminal edict now states Americans can rise up for America to kill him as a terrorist and be thought Just and God Worthy. I Agree with bush finally.
Unprincipled capitalism shouldn't be for export (tags)
The corporate scandals caused by a handful of U.S. companies have highlighted the importance of rigorously adhering to American principles and the rule of law.
The Railroad Barons Are Back - And This Time They'll Finish the Job (tags)
This administration is set to complete what the railroad barons pushed the Grant administration to start: to take democracy and its institutions of governance from the hands of the human citizen/voters the Founders fought and died for, and give it to the very types of monopolistic corporations the Founders fought against when they led the Tea Party revolt against the East India Company in Boston Harbor in 1773.
Johnny is Mainstream! Johnny is Mainstream! Johnny is Mainstream! (tags)
..bush, the unelected American cop killer, has still to be questioned by american corporate dictates, why, General Ahmad, is not a wanted man by American Patriot flag waving standards being coporatized as not worthy thinking as.
Taxes, taxes, taxes: High on the Bush agenda (tags)
It has been written that the more things change, the more they are the same. And that certainly holds true when it comes to battles over taxes. True, the powdered wigs of James Madison’s time are gone. And yes, George Bush has replaced "Teddy" Roosevelt. But the issues are the same – who pays and how much.
Holy Jesus Man! Johnny Wizard is staying for snacks! Holy Jesus Man! (tags)
Holy Jesus Man! Have you heard the Revelations from India's government to the FBI now made public?, regarding the principle terrorist funder of Mohammad Atta being, the ISI's, General Ahmad? The bush administration's personal confidant, and top secret military strategist? See, it was Jim at MSNBC that informed US of bush's terrorist plan existing as once top secret presidential documents, and, that this same general, was also responsible for, according to several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...
Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated (tags)
The man who killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, CA claims immunity because he was incorporated.
Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age (tags)
check out http://www.illegal-art.org/ and http://www.stayfreemagazine.org
The Denial of Imperialism (tags)
The denial of the existence of US imperialism in the corporate media and academia and the manifestations of its actual existence.
Ten Disgusting Things about Corporations (tags)
Fast fact sheet about how corporations ruin our lives
Time to Remove the Bananas...and Return Our Republic to Democracy (tags)
Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush both seem to have a funny idea about democracy: they think it's about voting.
UNEQUAL PROTECTION: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (tags)
Thom Hartmann will be giving a talk on his new book at The Bodhi Tree, Nov 23, 3p. His new book UNEQUAL PROTECTION: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (Rodale/October 2002) is an in-depth look into how corporations have hijacked democracy.
Defeat Corporate Communism (tags)
New book excerpt explaining how everything we thought was bad about communism is what's wrong with corporatism
WHITE HOUSE... PROTEST... Oct 26... WILL LOOK LIKE THIS... see you there... from www.Roger (tags)
permission given... to copy and circulate this image far and wide... If ONLY... WE the PEOPLE... could get close enough to VOICE OUR... Right to Free SPEECH & Assembly
Christ I'm Actually Rising! (tags)
Chirst has like, actually come to take out the evil bushmob single handedly! He walks and talks like he's just human... Wow! Don't miss this incredible revelation!!
Picture from the L.A. Not in our Name demo - Oct. 6, 2002
Spread the Word! Tell Everyone-Boycott Corporate Media! (tags)
EVERY day should be "TV Turn-off Day"!
IT IS... Bu$h Family Oil Corporate, U.S.A. PLUTOCRACY STUPID... Government by the MULTI-MI (tags)
U.S.A. Government 2002 Is Now... Today... by the Multi-millionaires for the Multi-millionaires of the Multi-millionaire Class... DANGER AMERICA... Multi - Millionaire Class... NOW - OWN - the U.S.A. Military...
Thousands rally in capital against war and greed (tags)
WASHINGTON – For four days last week, the capital echoed with marching feet and chants of “corporate greed has got to go” and “No war for oil!”
Outwardly Progressive, Internally Corporate: Pacifica's Next Challenge (tags)
Internal problems at Pacifica stations still plague the network. While the major battle at Pacifica was won early this year, the war against a corporate style hierarchy is not over. It was this very hierarchy which enabled the General Managers to abuse their power within the stations in the first place. In order for meaningful change to occur, this structure should change, not just the personalities. Please see attached open letter by KPFK staff, highlighting problems and suggesting some solutions. (To add your name in solidarity, see directions below.)
Corporate responsibility (tags)
Tuesday, Oct. 1st- Nationwide call-in day to get Staples to stop selling products made from old-growth forests!! Call 1.800.536.6676 to let Staples know that as the largest, and fastest growing office supply chain in the US, they have a responsibility not to sell our old-growth forests as office paper and pencils!!
Port of LA/LB Photos of Pile up! (tags)
While corporate America attempts to break the back of the union.... the Ports are piling up...1 billion dollars a day is going down the tube...
an essay on the necessity of direct action
Capitalism's Injustices (tags)
A discussion of the injustices of the capitalist system.
This article is the one written just weeks following 9-11 mentioned in "Leftist Conservatism" that was ignored by nearly all on the left
BUSINESS LOBBIES UN AT WORLD SUMMIT ON ENVIRONMENT (tags)
In an effort to turn the WSSD's sustainable development goals into profit-making ventures that will "green" its image, the business lobby gathered yesterday for a full program of "Business Day" activities, featuring representatives from notorious environmental destroyers such as Dow Chemical and Syngenta Corporation. They blamed poverty for the woes of the planet and tried to downplay their own abysmal records.
Union members run for Congress (tags)
Even a brief look at the make-up of the 107th Congress helps explain why workers are catching hell these days. Yes, it is true that there are “friends of labor” who have 100 percent AFL-CIO voting records, but they find themselves out-gunned in a Congress whose 535 members include 150 millionaire lawyers, bankers and other business people.
Demonization and Wars for Oil (tags)
The actual reasons for a war against Iraq
Bush Protested in Santa Anna and Dana Point!! (tags)
Protest against Corporate Monarch Bush!!!!
Iowa labor maps Election 2002 fight (tags)
WATERLOO, Iowa – The 46th convention of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, opened here Aug. 14 with a blistering attack on the policies of the Bush administration. It ended two days later with a plan of action aimed at electing worker-friendly candidates to Congress and the Iowa legislature, with a special emphasis on re-electing Sen. Tom Harkin.
Join Protest as Bush Visits Westwood to Raise $ For SImon - Sat Aug 24 / 7AM (tags)
BRUNCH WITH SHRUB! BRING PRETZELS AND BANANAS! pResident Bush will be at the Regency Club in Westwood Aug 24 at 7 AM, whoring for Simon. Come join us for Coffee with the Commander in Chimp [and Cereal with the Crook!] Make Waffles, Not War! Breakfast Not Bombs! Cherry scones for the smirking drone!
20 Things learned after 9-11 (tags)
Twenty Things We've Learned Nearly A Year After 911
Brunch With Shrub LA Aug 24/7AM Bring Bananas and Pretzels! (tags)
pResident Bush will be at the Regency Club in Westwood Aug 24 at 7 AM, whoring for Simon. Come join us for Coffee with the Commander in Chimp [and Cereal with the Crook!] Make Waffles, Not War! Breakfast Not Bombs! Cherry scones for the smirking drone!
ILWU faces historic moment for Union and Nation (tags)
ILWU faces historic moment for Union and Nation. story from portland indymedia.
Why Aren't We Hearing More From Ralph Nader On The Topic Of Corporate Greed?
Paradoxes of injustice: war and crises (tags)
This leads to the last and greatest paradox: The Bush Administration's use of war to resolve the domestic crises might just exacerbate all the internal contradictions...
Hollywood Blockbuster Demonizes "Anarchy" (tags)
The new Hollywood corporate product entitled "XXX," an action vehicle for African-American star Vin Diesel, demonizes the notion of anarchy with its plot and villains. The film is silly escapist entertainment, but indicative of the reactionary nature of contemporary popular culture in America.
Main St. goes to Wall St. (tags)
NEW YORK – Workers chanting, “Who’s city? Our city!” rallied here outside the New York Stock Exchange with laid-off workers from WorldCom, Enron and Arthur Andersen to tell Corporate America, “No more business as usual!”
**** ACTION ALERT! PROTEST CHENEY IN S.F. **** (tags)
(In case you happen to be in SF . . . come protest Dick Cheney with us!)
Call for a Protest Against Gov. Complicity on 9/11/01 (tags)
Just over a month to go before the "anniversary" of 9/11-with the corporate media giving us another mega-earfull of the "official" B.S. about what happened that day!
AFL-CIO to Wall Street: No more business as usual (tags)
Call for Bush-Cheney probe George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney faced sharp new questions about their role in Enron-style corporate fraud as the stock market continued to plummet and WorldCom went belly-up July 22, the largest corporate bankruptcy in history.
Ralph Nader on Donahue tonight (tags)
with molly ivins
The Real Stock Market Victims (tags)
The Real Story About Who Will Pay For The Latest Stock Market Tank.
Will there be a next phase of the war on terrorism?
Today's Voice: Bush As Corporate Reformer? (tags)
The Media tells us what is wrong with the world; Voice4change will tell you what to do about it! Our member organizations are busy organizing, so we want to bring their message to you. Our affiliates are doing great work every day. They need your support…We will be their link to you. Sign on to www.voice4change.org
Today's Voice: 3-Strikes is Inhumane and Unjust (tags)
The Media tells us what is wrong with the world; Voice4change will tell you what to do about it! Our member organizations are busy organizing, so we want to bring their message to you. Our affiliates are doing great work every day. They need your support…We will be their link to you. Sign on to www.voice4change.org
Call this Week to Stop Fast Track; Stop Corporate Giveaways (tags)
" Last December, the House of Representatives passed fast track by just one vote (215-214). We can beat this outrageous corporate giveaway when the bill comes back to the House if we pick up just one more vote.. . "
Today's Voice: Video of Cheney Touting Arthur Andersen (tags)
The Media tells us what is wrong with the world; Voice4change will tell you what to do about it! Our member organizations are busy organizing, so we want to bring their message to you. Our affiliates are doing great work every day. They need your support…We will be their link to you. Sign on to www.voice4change.org
Bush covers for Wall Street thieves (tags)
WASHINGTON – Hammered with questions about his links to corporate crime, President George W. Bush hastily travelled to Wall Street July 9 and vowed to crack down on CEOs who enrich themselves through fraud while employees lose their jobs, pensions and health benefits.
responses to Bush's speech (tags)
we will use the full weight of the law to expose and root out corruption
President Outlines New Penalty for Corporate Heads (tags)
Under the president's new corporate ethics program, "DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO". The Securities and Exchange Commission has been directed to detain a corporate head that fails to designate a prosecutable scapegoat within 72 hours of any bankruptcy or stock crash. Quote of the Day-- "Accounting isn't always black and white". ---George Bush
A shooting occursat LAX just before 12noon and raises many questions.
Burn a Flag, Burn a Bank this July 4th (tags)
Either you are a fascist, a spineless bystander, or you are part of the resistance.
"Politically Incorrect" censored (tags)
Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" made its grand fairwell appearance on Friday night.
People’s needs vs. guns and corporate greed (tags)
MADISON, Wisc. – Groups with diverging politics converged June 14 -18 around the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Revolution Against the Media-Al Giordano (tags)
On the previous post("Storm the Media"), we have one option against media corporate tyranny. Now, thanks to Al Giordano(Narconews.com), we have two!
IMC Hamilton Interviews Barrie Zwicker, Host of VisionTV's 'The Great Deception' (tags)
Important thoughts from Barrie Zwicker during these times of state-terror.
Original Woodstock site is being threatened by corporate interests (tags)
In Bethel, NY, the town where the original Woodstock festival took place in 1969, is now being threatened by corporate interests who want to bulldoze the site and turn it into an off-limits area for those who wish to see the site where the legendary event took place. We can put a stop to this if enough people are aware of it. Pass the word around...
Corporate America and Israeli Occupation (tags)
Corporate America and corporate boardrooms across the globe wield enormous political influence. It may in fact be argued that in today's material world corporate interests are the primary motivating factors for political action. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that power, for a multitude of reasons, has been unjustly mobilized to help sustain 35 years of an illegal Israeli military and economic domination of the Palestinian people.
The SUV war continues - new tactics employed (tags)
New tactics in the war against SUVs that involve "Charter Revokation Notices" are starting to shake up GM dealerships around the country.
Colombia archbishop murdered by state (tags)
Colombian narco-fascism has seen little success against the FARC except its constant use of defamation through the corporate media. Like the murder of Father Romero in El Salvador, the ruling class strikes once again showing its true face of cowardice and manipulation.
Music fills the streets in front of Taco Bell's World Corporate Headquarters (tags)
Caring people dance in the shadow of Taco Bell's monolithic exploitative corporate headquarter highrise in Irvine in support of a one cent per pound pay raise for tomato pickers.
800 People march on Taco Bell's Corporate HQ for fair wages for tomato pickers (tags)
About 800 people from as far away as Brazil and France marched on Taco Bell's Irvine corporate headquarters in support of a 1 cent per pound raise for their tomato pickers, who are still earning the same wages they made in 1978! As the rally ended, tomato pickers were inside Taco Bell discussing a raise with executives feeling the public pressure.
ASJE ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR APRIL 6 - 7 (tags)
The ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE JOBS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (ASJE) is a network of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a world where nature is protected, the worker is respected, and unrestrained corporate power is rejected, through grassroots education, organization, and action. JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL MEETING IN PORTLAND, OREGON!
Building Bridges Radio - Denis Brutus & Horace Campbell on Globalizatio (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 59 min Internet Radio progam in which Denis Brutus and Horace Campbel talk about corporate globalization. Building Bridges is broadcast over WBAI Radio in NYC. PLEASE CLICK ON INDY MEDIA LINK TO LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM
Bush"s budget amendment privatizes Public land (tags)
Permanently privatizes public land
SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS! Activist Surrealist Genre Bending Music! (tags)
A diverse colorblend cocktail of music, devoted to massive social, cultural, and political change. We seek an end to corporate fascism, and the destruction of all states. Currently seeking bandmates!
"Aura of Social Change Cloaks Economic Forum" (tags)
"I think we are at a turning point," says David Rothkopf, chief executive of Intellibridge Corp., which advises companies on global trends. "In every meeting I've been in there is an undercurrent of resentment to the U.S. corporate establishment. There's a sense that the system doesn't work for everybody." What comes next, he says, is unclear; but the order is changing. ... Something new is afoot, and America's corporate leaders may not find it entirely to their liking.
IFILM movie on DNC Corporate Takeover (tags)
Follow the link below to the FIRST movie I've seen on IFILM about the CORPORATE TAKEOVER of the Democratic Party. http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,2418281,00.html Word should be spread about this.
Meeting the Corporate Person!? (tags)
On Monday January 28, 2002 The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom presented this funny and educational skit on Corporate Personhood. Watch this video to be EDUCATED AND ENTERTAINED! video - 13 min. San Diego, CA
ALERT!!! The L.A. Independant Media Center has been taken over by Americon (tags)
Americon purportedly bought out the IMC...
Propaganda 101- How Corporate Media Lies (tags)
Most of us pretty much know how the corporate media lies to us. But here's an article that puts the current problem with the corporate media into historical context-a history of "spin" and mass deception, and precisely why we NEED Indymedia and as many other alternatives as possible.
Black Bloc Ruckus at Taco Bell HQ (tags)
Ruckus explodes at the Taco Bell Headquarters
Jan 15th - PROTEST Corporate Headquarters of Taco Bell! (tags)
This is not the National Protest, just a picket to gear up for the March 11 Protest outside the Taco Bell Corporate Headquarters.
Police Intimadation and Arrests at Peaceful Protest in Long Beach (tags)
First hand account of events occuring at an anit-war demonstration in Long Beach.
Help create a permanent Base Camp in Humboldt Co., CA (tags)
What can you do to help the revolution? Here's one great way, and all it takes is $10 and some serious networking...let's show corporate generica how we subvert their shitstem, and create a truly Earth-based movement, with a real home base, that could last generation after generation...it's really simple, and it could work beautifully...Please Help make this vision a reality in the physical world!:)
Revolutionary Graffiti Front! (tags)
Who is the Revolutionary Graffiti Front? We are engaged in form of Guerrilla Art, as a tactic to increase the political awareness of individuals and communities about the daily exploitation and injustice that exist within today's corporate capitalist society.
Protest Corporate Media Propaganda (tags)
What is needed now are protests in front of the L.A. Times, Fox, N.B.C., C.B.S.,etc. demanding an end to the brain-washing, censorship, omission of important information and LIES!
Six Questions About The War (tags)
Is there a link between U.S. involvement overseas and attacks on American targets? What is the Corporate Interest in the Middle East? What is the Corporate Interest in Central Asia? Will military action foil the “terrorist threat”? Is this a “war against terrorism”? Who are NATO’s allies the Northern Alliance?
A Brit pleas to go easy on US activists (tags)
I invite you to be a fly on the wall - here is an excerpt from an e-mail sent by a British social justice activist to her fellow activists. In it she asks that they re-evaluate their 'American' bashing.
Trickle-Down Patriotism-Nationalism-Capitalism (tags)
Corporations get billions for "Bailouts", Employee's get pink slips..... USA trickle down theory-practice in capitalist stock market. A PEACEFUL WORLDWIDE PROTEST AGAINST WAR - WAR is TERROISM! Sell Your Corporate Stock for PEACE! SUFFER THROUGH PEACE - NOT WAR!
A PEACEFUL WORLDWIDE PROTEST AGAINST WAR - WAR is TERROISM! (tags)
WAR is TERROISM! Sell Your Corporate Stock for PEACE! SUFFER THROUGH PEACE - NOT WAR! A PEACEFUL WORLDWIDE PROTEST AGAINST WAR AND U.S. ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENTAL WAR POLICY.
Sell Your Corporate Stock for PEACE! SUFFER THROUGH PEACE - NOT WAR! (tags)
Sell Your United States Corporate Stock for PEACE! (And before they are worth less.) 911 - 2001 An EMERGENCY call asking for HELP in STOPPING U.S. World Capitalistic and Militaristic Domination.
Corporate Media Coverage of Terror Strikes Ignore... (tags)
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Robert Jensen, associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, who evaluates the credibility and bias found in mainstream corporate media reporting of the devastating New York-Washington terror attacks.
Faith in corporate media is rooted in authoritarianism (tags)
This may be obvious to some
Why revolutionaries must declare war on the United States (tags)
Originally, I thought of writing a long well written fancy essay. But what I have to say is simple, straight to the point, and derives from common sense which are deeply felt sentiments by all true revolutionaries.
Thoughtful Analysis, Calm Reflection (tags)
"As the situation lurches toward more devastation, violence and deaths of innocents around the world, alternatives to the hype machine must be effective in offering a forum for calm reflection, for thoughtful analysis, for understanding and truth, and for building a sense of community outside the narrow definitions portrayed in the corporate media."
Just Like Oklahoma City!!! (tags)
The U.S. government and corporate propaganda media are making the same RACIST jump to conclusion they made immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing!
Loves Labor Lost......on The Ruling Class (tags)
It’s hard to feel empathy for those among us who, dare I say, labor under the illusion that the Earth and its biosphere are mere raw materials intended for their exclusive use
The coming global fascist state (tags)
The global corporate security state is erecting an oppressive intelligence and paramilitary force to crush the awakening democracy movement.
PROTEST TOMORROW, AUGUST 20TH! URGENT G8 SOLIDARITY!! (tags)
08/20/01 - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES! MONDAY, AUG 20, 12:00PM When: MONDAY, AUGUST 20th @ 12:00 p.m (NOON) Where: 12400 Wilshire Blvd. 4 blocks east of Bundy.
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST: DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES (tags)
Activists are gathering at Italian embassies all over the world on Aug 20th to protest the police killing of Carlo Giuliani, the brutal police repression, and against the policies of the G8.
AUG 20TH - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES! (tags)
AUG 20TH - SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION AT ITALIAN CONSULATE IN LOS ANGELES!
NOW'S THE TIME to bring pressure to bear directly on Congress to stop fast track legislation. They know that lots of people have been out in the street against the FTAA. They need to hear the same message from us as "ordinary constiuents." Background information and actions/instructions provided.
Sunday, 29th - Solidary protest at Italian Consulate in Los Angeles! (tags)
Solidary protest at Italian Consulate in Los Angeles!
corporate media strategy at the request of their robotic masters
S-25 Show Taco Bell What Democracy Looks Like! (tags)
S-25 Shut Down Taco Bell corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA
Anarchists Steal "News" Award at the Webby's (tags)
Anarchists stormed the stage at the Webby's, stealing an award for online "News" reporting. Indymedia had been nominated for an award in "Activism" ( many comments at sf link)
Text of Medea Benjamin's speech for Energy Independence, July 4th Long Beach (tags)
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and 2000 Green Party candidate for the US Senate, calls for Energy Independence, & freedom from global corporate tyranny, at a rally on July 4th in Long Beach, CA.
White House Press Briefing with Ari Fleischer Monday, July 2, 2001 1:15 PM (tags)
Has the President expressed a view on the death penalty for corporate criminals -- that is, revoking the charter of a corporation that has been convicted of a crime that has resulted in death?
More From Inside BIO2001 (tags)
Debunking Corporate Spin
CORPORATE MEDIA EXPLOITS LITTLE BOY AT BIO2001 - One little boy whose health was improved as a result of “biotechnology” was interviewed by a corporate radio station that had set up a studio (see photo below) at the conference. After the boy said a few words to the effect of how biotechnology had improved his health, the interview ended, and the producer yelled a loud “YES!”, clearly due to getting a soundbite he was hoping for, not out of excitement for the boy’s health.
Report from Inside BIO2001 (tags)
SUMMARY
Information Collected at Starlight Bowl (tags)
A preview of materials/pamphlets collected during Saterdays teach-ins at Starlight Bowl.
The imaginary effects of a Trans-American free trade zone: (tags)
In Quebec City, Canada, on April 20, the heads of 34 governments of North, South, Central America, and the Caribbean met in secret with hundreds of corporations to negotiate the terms for the creation of a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas(FTAA). Performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena,speculates about its possible repercussions
FTAA Reporting in U.S. Corporate Media: Infrequent, Imbalanced & Substanceless (tags)
U.S. corporate media have openly acknowledged the importance of the FTAA, yet have not significantly covered it. At the same time, the little coverage that exists has been imbalanced and generally lacking of substance.
OB Protest Starbucks with Street Theatrics! (tags)
May 19th protest at Starbucks in Point Loma, San Diego
CALL FOR BLACK BLOC IN SAN DIEGOBIOJUSTICE ACTION (tags)
June 24th-27th the evil scientists and greedy corporate assholes will be meeting in San Diego for the Bio Conference. On june 24th-27th the anarchists will be coming to San Diego to stop this meeting.
Conservatives Who Don't Conserve (tags)
A commentary on recent energy policies and those who propose them
call to : WHIRL-MART ANTISHOPPING !ART/ACTION?....JUNE 3! (tags)
On April 1, 2001, breathingplanet.net successfully activated its first action-performance, Whirl-Mart. It was a silent march winding through the aisles of Wal-Mart in Troy, NY, that was symbolic of the group's opposition to violent capitalist values. It was not necessarily a protest against Wal-Mart. Now breathingplanet.net is calling for simultaneous Whirl-Mart action-performances across the country and/or globe on Sunday June 3 and the first Sunday of every month following.
A Carper's Index: Missing Facts in Corporate Media's Coverage of Missile Defense (tags)
As Un-President Bush announces the biggest single giveaway of corporate welfare so far in subministration, here's a quick and dirty guide to what the corporate media is leaving out of the picture.
A Carper's Index: Missing Facts in Corporate Media's Coverage of Missile Defense (tags)
As Un-President Bush announces the biggest single giveaway of corporate welfare so far in subministration, here's a quick and dirty guide to what the corporate media is leaving out of the picture.
Corporate Security State Protects Wealthy Elite from Citizen Dissent (tags)
In the final session of the People's Summit, April 21st, French farmer Jose Bove, well-known for his 1999 bulldozing of a McDonald's restaurant in France, spoke to an overflow crowd.
Corporate Security State Protects Wealthy Elite from Citizen Dissent (tags)
In the final session of the People's Summit, April 21st, French farmer Jose Bove, well-known for his 1999 bulldozing of a McDonald's restaurant in France, spoke to an overflow crowd. Also speaking was Council of Canadians vice chair Tony Clarke who strongly condemned the development of the "corporate security state."
Civility & Double Standards (Corporate Media & Bush Lies Re: FTAA, etc.) (tags)
It seems like just yesterday when the national news media was quick to accuse leading politicians of lying. But "George W. Bush has changed that, with journalists now won to the "civility" that Bush vowed to bring to Washington. Take how The New York Times delicately stepped around the apparent contradictions in Bush's words at the Quebec free-trade summit...."
SAN FRANCISCO RALLIES AGAINST FTAA (tags)
Updates re: SF rally
Leone Hankey's Statement on April 21 FTAA Protests at the border (tags)
Leone Hankey's Statement on the April 21 Protests at the San Diego/Tijuana border -- from an April 17 press conference outside the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.
FTAA Reporting in U.S. Corporate Media: Infrequent, imbalanced & substanceless (tags)
U.S. corporate media have openly acknowledged the importance of the FTAA, yet have not significantly covered it. At the same time, the little coverage that exists has been imbalanced and generally lacking of substance.
M25: The Death of Woodstock (tags)
Our notion of "peace" is for profit only... no hippies allowed.
In a War of Words, Dubya Can Only Lose (tags)
As usual, the emperor is hanging brain, and the fawning corporate media lovingly describe His Majesty's swank threads. The Ugly Unmentionable this week: in the spy plane War of Words, China stomped Dubya's sentence-mangling ass
Stealth Threat, Hidden Agenda: ICANN=the WTO of the Internet (tags)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was formed in 1998 behind closed doors by bureuacrats inside the US Department of Commerce and their friends from the corporate sector. At most ICANN should only be responsible for keeping track of domain assignments and acting as a repository for technical data about the domain system. Instead ICANN is bullying itself into the position of World Government over the Internet, in the corporate interest, casting the rights of individuals to the wayside.
Pacifica-WBAI: Anatomy of a Corporate Take Over by Bernard White (tags)
Anatomy of a Corporate Take Over: WBAI in Crisis Bernard White Fired WBAI Program Director In His Own Words SOURCE: MailList-
Great Mumia Banner At Olympic & Colby (tags)
Somebody covered the bottom of an ugly corporate billboard with a wonderful Free Mumia banner. It was at Olympic and Colby, just west of Sawtelle & the 405, Tuesday at noon.
David Horowitz: Corporate Advocate (tags)
David Horowitz is appearing on TV commercials pretending to be a consumer advocate, but telling people to push the electric utilities' corporate agenda.
Open Source Broadcasting Software Looking for Programmer Help (tags)
Broadcasting system that could allow independent voices to broadcast over the internet to a large audience without corporate intervention is looking for help from programmers
HUGE CORPORATE MONSTER O.S.I . Heard of em?TERRORISTS ? (tags)
HUGE CORPORATE MONSTER OSI as BIG as the WTO and and I'm sure related like inbred cousins and they're more involved in your life than YOUR MAMMA! STUDENT LOANS FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY SYSTEM
HUGE CORPORATE MONSTER O.S.I . Heard of em?TERRORISTS ? (tags)
HUGE CORPORATE MONSTER OSI as BIG as the WTO and and I'm sure related like inbred cousins and they're more involved in your life than YOUR MAMMA! STUDENT LOANS FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY SYSTEM
Protest Mis-Use of the name of Crazy Horse by Indigenous People this holiday (tags)
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: A large Ecumenical organization that brings holdings to bear against corporate irresponsibility has decided to join the Crazy Horse family, Many Tribal Reps, AIM, Native Orgs, and friends in calling for National outcry against the misuse of the legacy of Crazy Horse (Oglala Lakota leader murdered by the US Government). Call protest in your town.
Healing for Luna, Julia Butterfly, Winter Solstice, Dec. 22. Colombia drug war. (tags)
The ancient redwood tree, named Luna, where Julia Butterfly lived for over two years has been wounded. There will be a collective global healing for Luna during the Winter Solstice. Cannabis hemp saves trees! The drug war is heavily involved in the madness of planetary destruction by the corporate petrochemical-pharmaceutical complex. In Colombia the Republicrat, corporate flunkie, Clinton continues to OK damaging herbicide spraying in the name of the drug war.
THE DECEMBRIST MANIFESTO: Declaration Of A New Culture Of Hope And Freedom (tags)
DECEMBER 12, 2000:In the last month of the 20th Century, a new culture rises from the final death rattle of American "democracy."
Corporate Media Ignores Racial Discrimination Against Florida Voters (tags)
Author and commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines allegations of voter discrimination in Florida and elsewhere during the 2000 national election. Listen to the RealAudio interview on the Between The Lines website www.btlonline.org for week ending 12/01/00
non-corporate non-Democrat/Republican programs on net-radio (tags)
programing schedule for radio free palms
"Billionaires for co-optation" is a new grass-roots organization devoted to co-optation of opposition and perpetuation of capitalism.
STOP THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ADVERTISING BLITZ (tags)
An action alert about the corporate take-over of the U.S. judicial system and campaign finance laws during this campaign season. Parallels info heard on Democracy Now! today.
Why Worry When Media Lies About Gore? (tags)
Gore, like Clinton, bases his Presidential hopes on a lie -- pretending to preserve a commitment to the people and values of the Democratic base, while moving the party ever farther to the right. So why worry when the press lies about him? Well, for one thing, if they can do it about him...
Protest the Fortune 500 Forum (tags)
Protest the Fortune 500 Forum in Austin, Texas on October 13, 2000
Mainstream Corporate Media Dismisses Democracy (tags)
By ignoring critical social issues mainstream corporate media dismisses democratic values in the United States.
WHY DOES THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER ALLOW THE PIGS TO USE YOUR WEBSITE AS A FO (tags)
WHY DOES THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER ALLOW THE PIGS TO USE YOUR WEBSITE AS A FORUM FOR THEIR LIES ?
Twelve Ways to Democratize the U.S. Political System: Introduction (tags)
Twelve Ways to Democratize the U.S. Political System: Introduction
An End To Corporate World Capitalism--> Here's why we protest (tags)
I wrote this in response to the people who continually keep posting here from Corporate America, and the police, or just curious observers. It describes and critiques the corporate take-over, erosion of laws and our lives, and gives a challenge to Corporate America. It's my reasons and convictions.
Washington Post calls LA protests a Failure (tags)
Corporate media outlet calls LA protests a failure
Coverage and Analysis of the Anarchist Convention (tags)
Coverage and Analysis of the Anarchist Convention, from an outsider for outsiders (and a somewhat mainstream audience). I wanted to spend more time at the NAAC, but felt like I didn't fit in! There is discussion of putting on "our own" anarchist conference in Arizona by and for AZ anarchists.
End Corporate Rule balloon - Santa Monica pier: REPOST (tags)
This large balloon festooned with "End Corporate Rule" and "People Before Profits" was flown above the DNC fundraiser on the Santa Monica pier on Sunday night - excellent! Balloon was joint effort of Teamsters and IATSE Hollywood studio workers.
End Corporate Rule balloon - Santa Monica pier (tags)
Someone from the Motion Pictures Union was flying this large balloon festooned with "End Corporate Rule" and "People Before Profits" during the DNC fundraiser on the Santa Monica pier on Sunday night - excellent!
TV O.D.! KILL YOUR TELEVISION! STOP MIND CONTROL!
PUPPET DECLARES SHAM ELECTIONS! (tags)
The theme of Monday's protest (8/13/2000), was "Human Need not Corporate Greed." An enormous crowd gathered at Pershing Square for a march to Staples Center. No fewer than 10,000 protestors participated in the mass demonstration, and many issues were addressed.
hand of corporate control (tags)
hand of corporate control Copyright 2000 Dang Ngo. Free for use by nonprofit, anti-corporate globalization organizations and for personal use. All other rights reserved.
Was LA inspiring, disgusting, or thought provoking? Do you like to express yourself in various way, which might be even considered poetic? Newspoetry offers up a poem a day and would be more than glad to publish your submission.
CORPORATE POWER #2 (Poster) (tags)
... but the power of the People is stronger!
CORPORATE POWER #1 (Poster) (tags)
CORPORATE POWER CRUSHES DEMOCRACY!
VillageVoice.com: Al Gore, Corporate Pawn (tags)
VillageVoice.com online exclusive: This Is Not Populism by James Ridgeway Al Gore, Corporate Pawn
Uh, Where was the Civil Disobedience in LA? (tags)
What happened to the CD in LA? There were only a few choreographed sit downs, but no lock downs, no promised barring of corporate fund raisers.. Some of us are wondering why >almost everything was just permitted rallies. Why so congenial? Aren't we mad at the system?
Thank you!
open letter to insidious CNN.com's political editors (tags)
let us keep on the case of the corporate media. getting in front of eyeballs will bring about mass appeal, as if by magic.
TUCSON DNC SOLIDARITY PROTEST (tags)
ARIZONA-SONORA JUSTICE ALLIANCE TUCSON ACTION 8.16
OPEN UP THE "DEBATES"!! October 3, 2000 Kennedy Library, UMass, Boston... (tags)
Join hundreds of diverse activists, ordinary citizens and yes, (potential?) voters who are coming together to demand the OPENING UP OF THE PRESIDENTIAL "DEBATES" and the OPENING UP OF OUR DEMOCRACY!! The first battle for democracy -- over hypocrisy -- is targeting the first "debate" in Boston on Tuesday, October 3, 2000. Where's Nader?? Where's ANYBODY??
WSWS: Corporate sponsors shower Democratic convention with money (tags)
The Democratic Party's national convention in Los Angeles has provided ample evidence of the domination of big money over American politics. From the corporate sponsorship of the convention itself, to the shameless money-grubbing by politicians and party brokers, to the celebrity-studded galas and invitation only parties, the convention has demonstrated that the Democrats, the self-described “party of the people, not the powerful,” are just as beholden to corporate America as their Republican counterparts. [...]
Web Billboards to Hit Corporations
Corporate Media uses hate media to kill.
Tucson protests the DNC (tags)
Solidarity Protest in Tucson attracts activists and police, but not press.
Why corporate media will never tell our story (tags)
These are just a few of the reasons that corporate media will never report fairly (or at all) on this movement.
Communicating for Peace (tags)
Demonstrators & cops show that we as humans are stronger than corporate bullies.
The Growing MicroRadio Movement combines WEB and Pirate Radio to Carry LA LIVE! (tags)
In spite of a seemingly all powerful array of corporate media working tirelessly to create an information blockade in conjunction with the IMC LA web radio, MicroRadio.NET is pumping out 2500 concurant streams to other streamin locations on the web across the counrty, and out to the rest of the world. Links can be found at www.dds.nl and www.hugecaster.com as well as MicroRadio.NET
Working Assets Media: Corporate Media In Disguise? (tags)
Is Working Assets media really a for-profit corporate alternative media?
BBC coverage of the protests and convention 16th and 15th August
Human Needs not Corporate Greeds March 2 (tags)
While still in Pershing Square, the puppets and the people prepared to take to the streets during the Human Needs not Corporate Greeds march.
Human Needs not Corporate Greeds March 1 (tags)
Activists march down downtown L.A. Monday afternoon during the Human Needs not Corporate Greeds march.
ASHEVILLE ACTIVISTS TAKE TO THE STREETS (tags)
Monday, August 14, 2000-Asheville, NC activist hold a press conference and march in solidarity with those in Los Agngeles.
Village Voice feature: Surfing Up Democracy Blue Dog Democrats--and Their Corporate Sponsors--Hear It From the Beach by Lenora Todaro
Can't make it to LA? Why not bring LA to you?
So...you can't make it to LA? Why don't you bring the spirit of LA to you?
EXTRAEXTRA CORPORATE MEDIA LEACHING OFF OF POOR (tags)
THIS JUST IN SOME JOURNALISTS NOT DOING THEIR JOBS???
tell the corporate media what you think of their coverage (tags)
If you would like to tell the corporate media what you think of their coverage, here is some contact info for LA TV news stations
CORPORATE MEDIA DISTORTIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY (tags)
Headlines of news about last night's brutality in downtown Los Angeles are either non-existant or completely distorted. If you see any more distorted headlines and news, please add to comments.
CORPORATE NEWS SUFFERS FROM POLITICAL ANAEMIA. (tags)
As the citizens take the streets of downtown LA, there remains to be seen a coverage of the issues by the corporate press.
The rise of corporate power. (tags)
CITIZENS BEGIN TO GATHER AT PERSHING SQUARE (5th and Olive) TO MARCH FOR PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS. HERE IS CONTEXTUAL INTERVIEW BY CORPORATE WATCH WITH NOAM CHOMSKY ON MICROSOFT AND THE HISTORICAL ROLE OF CORPORATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
There's An Alternative - Green Party & Nader (tags)
Which pie do you want to be in - the always shrinking unconscionable pie or the ever-increasing homeless pie?
Soros, cigs, hemp and Shadow Convention (tags)
Firefighters standby to set up padding for climbers (tags)
Firefighters standbye as a climber works on a banner hang in the back ground, at a local hotel in downtown L.A. this past Monday. The action, and following related photos, were concerning corporate control of our elected officials. The banner, once dropped, had many corporate logos on an American Flag reading "Sold." More information can be found on the websight www.soldoutusa.com.
Firefighters standby to set up padding for climbers (tags)
Firefighters standbye as a climber works on a banner hang in the back ground, at a local hotel in downtown L.A. this past Monday. The action, and following related photos, were concerning corporate control of our elected officials. The banner, once dropped, had many corporate logos on an American Flag reading "Sold." More information can be found on the websight www.soldoutusa.com.
solidarity outside of the prisons (tags)
Activists Engage in Nationwide Hunger Strike
Response on Rafael's Comments (tags)
Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global (tags)
In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate power to think defensively and, when they do reflect on affirmative proposals, incrementally.
Urgent Appeal for Legal Funds (tags)
Activists who came out to the Philly streets to make their voices heard, to demand a response to the issues of police brutality, the criminal injustice system, and the brutal effects of corporate globalization are being met with inhumane and torturous conditions in Philly jails and prisons.
Corporate media blackout of protests (tags)
One critical issue remains to be resolved before activists move out onto the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the DNC, and that is the apparent blackout of coverage by the national news media.
Pie Corporate Journalists! (tags)
TARGET: Corporate Media (tags)
The corp. media will betray us in L.A as they are currently doing w/ Philly and have grossly done w/ Seattle. How many times can we allow this? They are the reason fascists get elected. They kill us. Literally. The NY times right now is virtually ignoring the Philly protests, and making Bush look dynamic and smart. Are we wasting time? FUCK THIS SHIT. Are we in it to win it or what? Reclaiming democracy means reclaiming it from the private interests that have almost total control over information flow in our country. Target the corporate media, in addition to subverting them.
Corporate Media is Corrupt Media (tags)
Corporate Media supports murder. Is this good when it serves our interests or the interests of our buddies in organized cirme?
Corporate Media Black-out (tags)
Corporate Media continues black out of horror.
MicroRadio.net to help smash corporate media blackout (tags)
In anticipation of the upcoming post-democratic Emergency Community Broadcasts for "e2000", MicroRadio.net is preparing to carry LIVE feeds from Philly R2K & LA D2K protest actions surrounding the National Corporate Conventions, from Studio X in cyber-space ( http://microradio.net/studiox ). MicroRadio.net is inviting micro and community broadcasters to join them as this network of streaming content providers and broadcasters lays the groundwork for a realtime independent communications network.
Call to Action for Domestic & Global Justice (tags)
Challenge the Democratic and Republican parties this summer in Philadelphia and Los Angeles! Now is the time to take action for domestic and global justice!
STOP POLICE GUNS AT DEM. CONV.STOP POLICE GUNS AT DEM. CONV. (tags)
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Come help shut down the OAS! (tags)
The Organization of American States is holding their General Assembly in Windsor, Ontario from June 4th-6th. Come fight for democracy and help shut this meeting down!