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Category Archives: Corporate Welfare
National Bankruptcy as a Board Game
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Most people are familiar with the game Monopoly. Its goal is to teach capitalist kiddies a valuable lesson about capitalism; namely, that in running a business it isn’t useful to shoot for some happy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Bankruptcy, capitalism, Cartels, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Interest Rates, Labor, military spending, Monopoly, national debt, Russia, Walmart, war
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Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway to Amazon
By Stephen Lendman Source: StephanLendman.org Seattle-based Amazon is like corporate predator Walmart, exploiting communities, along with harming local businesses and workers for maximum productivity and profits. The company’s $100 billion dollar CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t get super-rich by being worker … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Amazon HQ2, Amazon Workers, Amazon.com, CIA, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, Crony Capitalism, Deep State, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Oligarchs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, predatory capitalism, Seattle, Sports, Worker Exploitation, Worker's Rights
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Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries
Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. By Sam Pizzigati Source: Other Words Politicians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CEO Pay, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Government Contractors, Income Disparity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Portland, Wealth Gap
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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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