Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms By Claire Kelloway, Food and Power. December 11, 2020 Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms2020-12-112020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/cocoa-e1607651188640.jpg200px200px Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the world’s largest cocoa corporations are liable for child slavery in their supply chains. For 15 years, six citizens of Mali who were trafficked as children […]
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US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters By Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. December 7, 2020 US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/venezuela-diosdado-cabello-threat-food-starve-voters-e1607355882439.jpg200px200px Spun out by the US Congress and Wall Street Journal, the cynical deception is part of an assault on Venezuela’s legislative election, in which even opposition politicians were sanctioned for participating. […]
When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame The Left By Julie Hollar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. November 12, 2020 When Centrists Lose, Corporate Media Blame The Left2020-11-122020-11-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/spanberger-1024×575-1.jpg200px200px Joe Biden hadn’t even been declared the victor of the 2020 election before establishment Democrats, in the face of poorer-than-expected results in House and Senate races, began pointing fingers at the left—with corporate media giving them a major assist. […]
The Corporate Dictatorship Of The Very Rich By Nora Fernandez, Global Research. November 7, 2020 The Corporate Dictatorship Of The Very Rich2020-11-072020-11-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/ceos-feature-e1604777425758.jpg200px200px Above photo:Composite/Getty Images. I heard friends praising Bill Gates’ philanthropy a while ago; it still surprises me how people respond to billionaires. The wealthy improve their image financing self-serving projects they present as “serving others” but few question their motives or suspect them of hidden agendas. Most […]
Corporate Media Reverse Reality By Blaming BLM Protesters For Everything By Joshua Cho, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. November 5, 2020 Corporate Media Reverse Reality By Blaming BLM Protesters For Everything2020-11-052020-11-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/hill-bike-fire-e1604592474380.jpg200px200px Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, this year has also seen unprecedented mass uprisings against the US’s white supremacist police state after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. However, throughout the […]
Paradise For Human Victims Of Corporate Persons By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. October 27, 2020 Paradise For Human Victims Of Corporate Persons2020-10-272020-10-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/henry-tayali-zambia-destiny-1962-1966.-4-e1603829386913.jpg200px200px Above photo: Henry Tayali (Zambia), Destiny, 1962-1966. Any day now, Zambia will be the first African country to slip into a private debt default. It can only pay interest on the $3 billion in dollar-denominated bonds if it totally ignores the needs of the […]
A Corporate Megafishery Set The Stage For Violent Conflict In Mi’kma’ki By Robin Tress, Canadians.org. October 18, 2020 A Corporate Megafishery Set The Stage For Violent Conflict In Mi’kma’ki2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/fisheries-scaled-e1603043530352.jpg200px200px Trapped in conflict. The corporate megafishery Clearwater, headed by Nova Scotia’s richest billionaire, has set the stage for violent conflict in Mi’kma’ki. Today across the country, people awoke to reeling images of violence and racism carried out […]
Payments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack Dorsey, the Twitter CEO who also helms Square, is a longtime bitcoin bull, so it wasn’t a huge surprise his company would put some of its corporate liquidity into the cryptocurrency. He’s following the path of MicroStrategy […]
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong dropped a bombshell on corporate America and the culture wars when he told employees, firmly, to keep activism out of the workplace. In a blog post on Monday, Armstrong said Coinbase employees should be “laser focused” on the company’s mission: to create an open financial system for the world. The message is clear: Coinbase won’t touch topics unrelated to its business and it […]
In August, the volume of personally owned stock sold by corporate executives reached its highest level since 2015, followed by a 10% decline in the S&P500 in September. August saw the largest volume of insider selling since 2015, with more than 1000 corporate officers offloading $6.7B in stock. Subsequently, the market has seen a 10% decline since the S&P500 all time high of Sept. 2. What’s […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic By Sofia Lopez and Sara Mycklebust, Inequality.org. September 22, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay The Bills During The Pandemic2020-09-222020-09-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/cancelrent-e1600783330253.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images. With fortunes inflated by corporate welfare, wealthy real estate owners can afford to cancel housing-related expenses and debts for millions of struggling American families. The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and […]
On Thursday night, US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery acceptance speech after being nominated by the Republican Party to run for a second term in November. A journalist told Sputnik that Trump is given space to spin lies about an imaginary adversary by a mainstream media that long ago gave up its duty to be critical of politicians. In a speech at the White House […]
Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. August 26, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works2020-08-262020-08-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/ecuador-e1598473285702.jpg200px200px Above photo: A citizen of Guanta, Ecuador, shows a butterfly killed by oil pollution, in 2003. AP/Dolores Ochoa. 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 […]
Scheer Intelligence: Something’s Rotten In The Corporate States Of America By Robert Scheer, ScheerPost.com. August 21, 2020 | Educate!, Featured Campaign Scheer Intelligence: Something’s Rotten In The Corporate States Of America2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/mrfish.jpg200px200px Above image: “Punch the Clock” by Mr. Fish. A new book by Barbara Freese explores eight stories about the unfettered corporate greed that has corrupted modern society and led to an astounding loss of life. […]
Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis By Sofia Lopez and Sara Myklebust, Inequality. August 18, 2020 Make Corporate Landlords Pay For Housing Crisis2020-08-182020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/right-to-housing-e1596131418813.jpeg200px200px The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, many are unable to pay rents or mortgages and are facing […]
Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — “Ugly Corporate Tyranny” Or Revolution By Chauncey Devega, Salon. July 16, 2020 Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — “Ugly Corporate Tyranny” Or Revolution2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/salon-e1594946136186.png200px200px Above photo: Police confront demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate | Protesters hold their fists in the air during the protest against racism following the Black Lives Matter movement. John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency/Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Getty […]
‘Unacceptable threat’ and ‘provocation’: European nations fume after US pulls out of talks on global digital tax …from Russia Today, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: The US pulled out of the digital tax talks with Europe when they were at the 11th hour. Gosh, might it have something to do with Trump’s election year worries? Internet giants like Google and Facebook have avoided taxation by parking their […]
Plummeting Facebook shares have wiped out billions of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth. The impetus? Corporations such as Coca-Cola and Verizon have pulled their ads, demanding that Facebook censor hate speech. Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion, after Facebook’s shares fell by 8.3 percent on Friday, Bloomberg reported. The dive in value happened after Unilever, one of the largest advertisers in the world, joined the list […]
Athletic brand Reebok and several affiliate gyms have canceled their partnerships with fitness giant CrossFit after its CEO tweeted a mocking response to a statement calling racism a “public health issue.” CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman might have cost his company millions with just 13 characters. After he replied to a tweet from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation calling racism and discrimination “critical public health […]
Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. June 1, 2020 Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They’re Trying To Ruin Him2020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/donz.jpg200px200px Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did […]
Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid To Invade Venezuela Count Are Mercenaries By Joshua Cho, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. May 13, 2020 Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid To Invade Venezuela Count Are Mercenaries2020-05-132020-05-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/mercenaries-e1589391922696.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Telesur (via People’s Dispatch, 5/6/20) of captured mercenaries in Venezuela. When an attempted invasion of Venezuela launched from the shores of Colombia was foiled on May 3, after armed commandos were intercepted at Venezuela’s […]
Bernie Blackout, a new VICE TV documentary directed by Pat McGee examining the mainstream media’s alleged bias against the Sanders campaign, is rooted in independent and alternative journalism instead of the corporate cable news outlets like MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. While McGee’s film straightforwardly breaks down the cynical function of corporate media (that is, to turn a profit, not to tell the truth), the documentary […]