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Like Lincoln, Jefferson, Madison – Americans Fear Corporate Control of Public Policy (Updated)
Published on 2012-02-13 12:59:14
Ever since Elizabeth I created the East India Company in 1600, corporations have been a pain in the public neck. Her royal act to protect the monetary interests of wealthy members of her court, parliament and herself created a company that would, over the course of two centuries, grow in power to rival many of the worlds nation states. A legal fiction, corporations exist solely to protect the oligarchy from the results of their risky behavior in the search for ever greater profit. Incorporat
Global Unemployment
Published on 2012-02-10 08:36:03
While there may be some truth to the old saw that "misery" loves company and the discovery that there are a billion people in the boat may be somehow weirdly comforting, you have to wonder how long the dinghy will dally on the surface before behaving more like an anchor.
Fracking for Treasure in Trinidad and Tobago
Published on 2012-02-09 13:24:24
"Chevron oil rig on fire in Niger Delta," "BP's Deepwater Horizon sinks in Gulf of Mexico," "Shell confirms oil leak in North Sea," "Massive fish kill in Trinidad and Tobago." The headlines have become as familiar as announcements of freeway pile ups and severe thunderstorms.
