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Tag Archives: corporatocracy
American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. By Chris Hedges Source: ScheerPost.com Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Health, Inequality, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, corporatocracy, Democracy, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, Economics, Election 2020, empire, healthcare, Joe Biden, liberal elites, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, tyranny
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Lords of Misrule: UK Elites and the Rise of Global Feudalism
By Chris Floyd Source: Empire Burlesque I darkly suspect that the UK is entering a long winter of discontent and widespread upheaval, which will likely end with the replacement of the hapless opportunist Boris Johnson by someone even worse: the … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Boris Johnson, corporate feudalism, corporatocracy, Dom Cummings, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Michael Gove, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy
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The Election Has Already Been Hijacked and the Winner Decided: ‘We the People’ Lose
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” ― Herbert Marcuse Republicans and Democrats alike fear that the other party will attempt to hijack this election. President Trump is convinced that mail-in … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, media, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Congress, corporate media, corporatocracy, Democrats, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Donald Trump, Election 2020, George Carlin, Joe Biden, Oligarchy, police state, Republicans, Rigged Elections, Supreme Court, tyranny
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How Corporate Tyranny Works
By Chris Hedges Source: OpEdNews.com Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them. The persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, History, Law, media, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Amazon Watch, Chevron, Corporate Crime, corporatocracy, Ecuador, environmental justice, Journalism, law, Oligarchy, Steven Donziger, Texaco
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Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good
By Dirk Philipsen Source: aeon Adam Smith had an elegant idea when addressing the notorious difficulty that humans face in trying to be smart, efficient and moral. In The Wealth of Nations (1776), he maintained that the baker bakes bread … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Bailouts, coronavirus, Corporations, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Free Market, Freedom, Late Stage Capitalism, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health
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Why Post-Coronavirus America Will Have Massive Poverty
By Eric Zuesse Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The way that Congress and the President structured America’s coronavirus bailout legislation, the protections that go to the super-wealthy start immediately, but the protections that go to the neediest — the soaring numbers … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 0.1%, bailout, Billionaires, bondholders, coronavirus, corporate media, corporatocracy, Covid-19, Deep State, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Lobbyists, Monetary Policy, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Poverty, stockholders, Wealth Divide
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Data governance and the new frontiers of resistance
The 21st century corporation is using algorithmic-based intelligence to accumulate data on a massive scale. Social movements need to grasp this change quickly. By Anita Gurumurthy and Nandini Chami Source: ROAR Four centuries after the East India Company set the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Inequality, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged algorithmic optimization, Amazon, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, capitalism, Commodification, Corporatization, corporatocracy, data capital, data dispossession, digital platforms, Dystopia, Economics, environment, Financialization, Global South, Intelligencification, intelligent corporation, Labor, Monopolies, neo-colonialism, Neoliberalism, Technocracy, technology, Uber, Wealth Concentration
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DNC Completely Loses Public Trust In Its Primary Process On Very First Day
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Election Fraud, elites, media, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Acronym, bernie sanders, corporatocracy, Corruption, Deep State, DNC, Election 2020, Election Fraud, fascism, Iowa caucuses, Neera Tanden, Pete Buttigeig, propaganda, Psyops, Shadow Inc., Shannon Watts
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