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Category Archives: Corporate Welfare
Convenient Tales About Riches Within Reach
By Sam Pizzigati Source: OpEdNews.com The world at large knew virtually nada about Sylvia Bloom for 96 years. Then she died in 2016. Now, just a little too late, Sylvia Bloom is getting her belated — yet richly deserved — … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged austerity, corporate media, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Education, Housing Crisis, Income Disparity, Millenials, Millionaires, Precariats, Public Transit, Rent Control, Social Services, Sylvia Bloom, Wealth, Wealth Gap
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The Pentagon Budget as Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers
By William Hartung (with introduction by TomDispatch) Source: TomDispatch.com What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin. As the Washington Post recently reported, of its $51 billion in sales in 2017, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Afghanistan, Corporate Welfare, Defense Spending, Domestic Spending, Donald Trump, economic crisis, empire, F-35, geopolitics, iraq, Jim Mattis, Libya, Lockheed Martin, Militarism, Military Contractors, military spending, Pakistan, Pentagon Budget, Reagonomics, Somalia, Syria, Tax Giveaways, US Foreign Policy, war, war profiteers, Yemen
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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide A $12,000 Annual Stipend To Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change It’s not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged 1%, 99%, Arts and Sciences, big data, Big Pharma, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Entrepreneurs, financial crisis, income gap, Poverty, Progressive Tax, Stock Market, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wall street, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Tax
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Robert J. Burrowes Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Art, Corporate Welfare, culture, Environment, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bolivia, Bruce Gagnon, Eddy Kalisa Nyarwaya Jr., Ella Polyakova, Gaëlle Smedts, General Dynamics, Ghandi, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, John Seed, Martin Luther King Jr., Movimient Humanista, Nonviolence, Poetry Against Arms, Rainforest Information Centre, Russia, Rwanda Institute for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, society, Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint-Petersburg, Violence, war, war profiteers
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The Fall of the American Empire
By W.J. Astore Source: Bracing Views Why do empires fall? Sometimes, it’s easy to identify a cause. Whether led by the Kaiser or by Hitler, Germany’s Second and Third Empires were destroyed by world wars. Germany’s ambition was simply too … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Alfred McCoy, corporatocracy, Corruption, Donald Trump, empire, imperialism, Militarism, military spending, Neocons, Oligarchy, Pentagon, Plutocracy, State Department, U.S. Foreign Policy
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The Singular Pursuit of Comrade Bezos
By Malcolm Harris Source: Medium It was explicitly and deliberately a ratchet, designed to effect a one-way passage from scarcity to plenty by way of stepping up output each year, every year, year after year. Nothing else mattered: not profit, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Prime, big data, Cartel, Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Growth, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, Planned Economy, Technocracy, technology, Whole Foods
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The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Why throw money at defense when everything is falling down around us? Do we need to spend more money on our military (about $600 billion this year) than the next seven countries … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Neocons, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged American Empire, Defense Contractors, Donald Trump, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Militarism, military spending, military-industrial complex, National Security State, Pentagon, police state, surveillance state, Totalitarianism, Uri Friedman, war, war profiteers
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A Stock Market Primer, in Six Easy Steps
By William Kaufman Source: CounterPunch What is the stock market? 1) It’s not real economic activity—it’s a form of mass hysteria or mass psychosis. 2) Stock prices reflect a mass-hysteria impression of the worth of a piece of paper you … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, 99%, corporate media, Corporate Welfare, Economics, economy, High Speed Trading, Kleptocrats, Mass Hysteria, MSM, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market, Tax Breaks, Technocrats, wall street
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