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Corporate Domination
Plutocracy in America » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Plutocracy literally means rule by the rich. “Rule” can have various shades of meaning: those who exercise the authority of public office are wealthy; their wealth explains why they hold that office; they exercise that authority in the interests of the rich; they have the primary influence over who holds those offices and the actions … Continue reading
Monsanto Conquest Meets Aztec Resistance – CIP Americas
Monsanto has a map for conquering the world and Mexico is in the center of it. For nearly two decades the transnational corporation that manufactures the pesticides used across the planet has been trying to take over the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) seed. If successful, most of the food we grow and … Continue reading
Micro-drones will “hide in plain sight” – Salon.com
*Mexikaresistance.com Editor’s Note: Does the thought of killer robots patrolling your neighborhood disguised as bugs and birds bother you? The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf Tuesday highlighted a “terrifying” prospect on the military technology horizon. The U.S. Air Force are building micro-drones that are “unobtrusive, pervasive, and lethal” weapons. According to a feature in the National Geographic … Continue reading
Meet the Contractors Turning America’s Police Into a Paramilitary Force | Alternet
The national security state has an annual budget of around $1 trillion. Of that huge pile of money, large amounts go to private companies the federal government awards contracts to. Some, like Lockheed Martin or Boeing, are household names, but many of the contractors fly just under the public’s radar. What follows are three companies … Continue reading
How Our Government Is Trying to Scare Us into Submitting to Corporate Dominance | Alternet
Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being … Continue reading
Brainwashed by Junk Food? New Study Reveals Fast-Food Logos “Imprinted” in Children’s Minds | Alternet
Do your children light up when they see those golden arches?
Good Riddance! Canadian oil company announces withdrawal from Achuar territory
The Achuar Peoples have a won a major victory in their eight-year struggle against a Canadian oil company in the Amazon rainforest. Yesterday, Talisman Energy announced that it will be withdrawing from the Achuar’s ancestral territory–and all of Peru–just as soon as it finishes some ongoing commercial transactions.
Is Privacy Dead? 4 Government and Private Entities Conspiring to Track Everything You Do Online and Off | Alternet
Americans’ personal privacy is being crushed by the rise of a four-headed corporate-state surveillance system. The four “heads” are: federal government agencies; state and local law enforcement entities; telecoms, web sites & Internet “apps” companies; and private data aggregators (sometimes referred to as commercial data warehouses).
Venezuela confirms there was no Yanomami massacre
A little under two weeks ago, we received reports that the Yanomami village of Irotatheri in southern Venezuela had been decimated by unknown persons, presumably illegal gold miners from Brazil. Those reports came from firsthand sources through HORONAMI, a well-known Yanonami organization in Venezuela.
Indigenous community ‘wiped out’ by gold miners in southern Venezuela
An entire Yanomami community is believed to have been wiped out by illegal gold miners (garimpeiros) in southern Venezuela near the border with Brazil.
