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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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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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To Liberate Cambodia
By Robert J. Burrowes A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, History, imperialism, Labor, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Cambodia, Dictatorship, Economics, Hun Sen, imperialism, Khmer, Labor, Nonviolence, politics, protest, war, Worker's Rights
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Full Text of TPP Released to Public… And It’s Horrible
‘We now have concrete evidence that the Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens our families, our communities, and our environment.’ By Jon Queally Source: Commondreams It’s a disaster for people, the planet, democracy, and the future of the global economy. That was the immediate … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged activism, Corporate Globalization, Economic Justice, environment, Global Trade, Labor, Sierra Club, TPP, Worker's Rights
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May Day
May Day has a long history of being a culturally significant day for a number of reasons. In ancient Europe it was a time of Pagan festivities celebrating the first day of summer. It’s the day the Illuminati was founded … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, culture, Economics, History, Labor, society, Work
Tagged activism, Al Jazeera, Labor History, May Day, Mayday, Nathan Schneider, Occupy Wall Street, Ocupy Movement, Worker's Rights
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Bangladeshi Workers Fight for Living Wage
Last Saturday, Garment Sramik Samannay Parishad, a federation of trade unions in garment sectors, organized a rally of over 50,000 workers to meet their different demands including raising minimum monthly salary to about $100. Bangladesh’s apparel industry, which supplies many … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Economics, Labor, news, society, Work
Tagged Bangladesh, Bangladeshi Workers, Demonstrations, income gap, Maximum Wage, Minimum Wage, protests, sweatshops, Walmart, Worker's Rights
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