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Showing posts with label corporate state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corporate state. Show all posts
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Alleen Brown — Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings Of “surveillance-Industrial Complex”

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Occupy redux. Protesters encounter the might of the corporate state apparatus operating secretly. Another paradox of liberalism involvi...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Bill Allison and Sarah Harkins — Fixed Fortunes: Biggest corporate political interests spend billions, get trillions

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Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Norman Pollack — Monster Capitalism and the Complicit State

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The phrase “close-embrace” to describe the incestuous relationship between business and government in advanced capitalism is by Masao Maryu...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Yves Smith — Yes Virginia, Obama and the Democrats Are Mussolini-Style Corporatists, Just Like the Republicans

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Doh. Anyone didn't get that? Oh, right, the Obama bots and the Third Way/Clinton fans. Oh, well, at least it is bipartisan. Naked ...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Lars Schall — Secret information: The currency of power

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The transcript of the following interview was exclusively arranged for Asia Times Online. An audio file of the interview is published at th...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Don Quijones — Rent-A-Cop: The Rise of the Mercenary Police State

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Alternate title: The Rise of Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Fascism. Raging Bull-shit Rent-A-Cop: The Rise of the Mercenary Police State Don Quijones...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Peter Radford — When is a contract a contract?

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It used to be comforting to think that the saying “one rule for the rich, another for the poor” was just that: a saying. We could all prete...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Juan Cole — Top 10 Ways the US Is the Most Corrupt Country in the World

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Americans are not seen as corrupt because we only deal in the big denominations. Steal $2 trillion and you aren’t corrupt, you’re respectab...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Corpocracy: The Tyranny of Neoliberalism and Detroit's Financial Crisis

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Abstract:  The city of Detroit in 2013 is confronted with a financial crisis so severe that municipal bankruptcy may be the only viable sol...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Radley Balko — 7 Ways The Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization

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There were signs that President Barack Obama might rein in the mass militarization of America's police forces after he won the White Ho...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell — The arrogance of our vicious guard dogs grows

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NSA, for instance, is a secret nation, creating its own laws in secret. These laws are approved by judges in secret, based on secret testim...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Alex Kane — Acquitted! Activist Who Faced 13 Years in Prison for Chalking Anti-Bank Slogans Gets Off Free

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No, he did not get off free. This was abuse of power aimed at harassment of the subject and intimidation of others. It also has an economic...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

John Pilger — There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like

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The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the cor...
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Ralph Nader — Corporatizing National Security: What It Means

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With this in mind, let us not mince words. “Privatization” is a soft term. Let us call the practice what it really is—corporatization. Th...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Fascism Watch — Thom Hartmann: National Security Should Never Be a For-Profit Industry

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The privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful—it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic. Alter...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Pepe Escobar — Elite Enrichment and Police Repression: The Sparks That Lead to the Turkish Rebellion

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The plan to destroy one of Istanbul's last green spaces is part of a globally tested neoliberal plan to clear the way for economic enri...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Reuters — Germany fears revolution if Europe scraps welfare model

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned on Tuesday that failure to win the battle against youth unemployment could tear Europe ap...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Robert Reich — Beware Capitalist Tools

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Forbes Magazine likes to call itself a “capitalist tool,” and routinely offers tool-like justifications for whatever it is that profit-seek...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Michael Stephens — This Time Is Indifferent

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Yet, revealingly, there are some deficit hawks who are treating the rapid shrinking of the deficit as bad news — and not for the Keynesian ...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Alex Kane — How America's National Security Apparatus -- in Partnership With Big Corporations -- Cracked Down on Dissent

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A new report is an eye-opening look into how the U.S. counter-terror apparatus was used to track the Occupy movement. Counter-terror poli...
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