Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States How our early colonists tried to control corporations and slowly-finally, unavoidably, failed. When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our country’s founders retained a healthy fear of corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to. . . CONTINUE
February 26, 2016 Apple motion to deny FBI to be backed by Google and Microsoft The FBI argues that public safety hangs in the balance if they cannot command tech companies to help with its investigations. The FBI orders that Apple create new software to allow the FBI (and hackers of course) to break into the iPhone 5C. Apple said that assisting the government to crack into the phones is. . . CONTINUE
Wednesday, April 15, 2015; By David Henkin On March 31, a federal judge ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service broke the law when it approved the U.S. Navy’s five-year Pacific weapons testing and training plan. The agency had concluded that the Navy’s [reckless] use of sonar, explosives and vessel strikes would threaten thousands of ocean dwellers with permanent hearing loss, lung damage and death – but approved it anyway.. . . CONTINUE
updated 01-27-2014 The police cannot spy on anyone without a court order but the NSA has become a new Gestapo spying on everyone, breaking the law and lying about it. Update: Polls Continue to Show Majority of Americans Against NSA Spying January 22, 2014 | By Mark Jaycox Update, January 2014: Polls continue to confirm the trend. In a poll conducted in December 2013 by the Washington Post, 66% of. . . CONTINUE
updated 2022-10-28 In the 1930’s Roy Rife invented a microscope which enabled everyone to see a living virus. Then, using his microscope, he discovered a cure for cancer. The 3 biggest drug co.s with the help of the head of the AMA, had the money and power to destroy knowledge of both the microscope and the cure. (today, treatment of a single cancer patient averages over $300,000.) This is only. . . CONTINUE
a “super-entity” made up of 147 gigantic corporations basically dominates the entire global economy…. Faine Greenwood, September 10, 2013 America’s top 1 percent of earners control 19.3 percent of total household income, a gap wider even than in 1927. The current gap between America’s rich and poor is the widest in history, new research using Internal Revenue Service data reveals, as the country continues to struggle to recover from a. . . CONTINUE
By George Black, from OnEarth Last summer, photographer Ron Haviv and I were in Cajamarca, Peru, where the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation plans to spend $4.8 billion on a new gold mine, Conga, in an environmentally sensitive area of the high Andes. The project has provoked massive opposition, and Haviv and I were detained by security officials when we tried to visit the mine site and later tear-gassed by riot. . . CONTINUE
the devastating economic costs and mounting humanitarian crisis related to reckless mountaintop removal operations Jeff Biggers, September 26, 2011; alternet.org 2009 North American Goldman Prize Winner Maria Gunnoe testified. “Jobs in surface mining are dependent on blowing up the next mountain and burying the next stream. When are we going to say enough is enough? In truth, thanks to the heavily mechanization of strip-mining and shift to Powder River Basin. . . CONTINUE
Ideas & Discoveries, Oct. 2011, 8-20-2011 Today oil co’s deny global warming despite all the undeniable, overwhelming, evidence, and Ins. co’s fight health care reform at their own peril. Recent wars have been fought more for oil profits than for human rights so why are we so surprised to learn that even the Am. Revolution may have been started by American tea smugglers and their “bought and paid for” politicians.. . . CONTINUE
Posted: 01/24/11 10:41 AM For the past two years, the NFIB has been less an advocate for small businesses than an arm of the Republican Party. When the interests of the GOP and the needs of small firms have collided, the NFIB has repeatedly sided with Republicans, jeopardizing billions of dollars in credit, tax benefits and other federal subsidies that are critical to the small enterprises that form the backbone. . . CONTINUE
Reappearance of Huge Plumes of Oil is Making It Hard to Pretend that the Problem Has Disappeared Florida Oil Spill Law -&- Washington’s Blog “I just got this from a friend fisherman in Florida. It just shows that the oil did not disappear but is slowly getting into the food chain. BP and the media are covering this up. This is only the start of chain reaction in the food. . . CONTINUE
Friday, August 20, 2010; Sea Shepherd News Early Warning System for the Whales: Sea Shepherd Deploys Acoustical Warning System for Whales in the Faroe Islands Over the last few weeks, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has maintained a presence in the Danish Protectorate of the Faeroe (a.k.a. Faroe) Islands. Sea Shepherd is partnered with the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in our opposition to the brutal and barbaric slaughter of pilot whales by. . . CONTINUE
BP’s blownout Deepwater Horizon well gushed up to 2.6 million gallons a day, the federal government now says, a total equivalent of 19 Exxon Valdezes. For months, BP insisted the figure of 1,000 then 5,000 barrels a day. BP will be responsible for a $17.6 billion fine – $4,300 for each barrel of oil, less the 800,000 barrels directly siphoned from the well-head. BP’s leaking well gushed 62,000 barrels of. . . CONTINUE
