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Thom Hartmann’s classic work on corporate personhood
Published on Thursday, December 26, 2002 by CommonDreams.org Sing, Dance, Rejoice- Corporate Personhood Is Doomed A Review of Thom Hartmann’s “Unequal Protection: the Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights” by Richard W. Behan Unequal Protection may prove to be the most significant book in the history of corporate
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BPA is good for you!
BPA industry fights back Public relations blitz takes cue from tobacco companies’ past tactics By Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust of the Journal Sentinel Bill Carteaux paced the stage with the intensity of a general about to send troops into bloody battle. He is at war against mounting momentum
Screwing the self-employed out of health insurance
From Michael Collins: Flash!!! A potential twelve million or so fervent supporters of real health care reform and a public option. The self employed are the sleeping giant of health care reform. Spread the word, help is there if we ask for it. Cheers, Michael Collins M.
Group challenges corporate personhood in Supreme Court
Corporate Personhood Challenged in Supreme Court On August 1st Democracy Unlimited filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging “corporate personhood,” the illegitimate and undemocratic legal doctrine which allows courts to overturn democratically elected laws that attempt to control
“Liberal media” faults the left for healthcare battle (!)
Sunday Aug. 23, 2009 10:24 EDT The Beltway consensus: the Left is to blame for health care battle The prevailing Beltway wisdom has now ossified that the problem with the health care debate is that those hardened Leftist ideologues cling childishly and petulantly to their little “public option”
AFSCME nixes singler-player
Astroturfing on the Left By David Swanson We’ve grown accustomed to recognizing astroturfing on the right. A corporate lobbyist sends letters to congress members forging the signatures and letterhead of local grassroots groups. Oil corporations create front groups to generate town-hall presence
AG Holder is a multimillionaire (and ex-lobbyist for UBS, Merck, Hewlett-Packard)
And that $3-million goodbye kiss from Covington & Burling surely left him with a deeply lovin’ feelin’ for that Bushevik outfit. A revelatory–and forever timely–piece from last December. MCM Holder will get $3M payoff to leave firm for AG job By: Lisa Lerer Eric Holder,
The center-right “Gang of Six” deciding heathcare for the rest of us
Why the Gang of Six is deciding healthcare for 300 million of us Six senators representing 3 percent of the population are running things because the White House wants it that way By Robert Reich Aug. 24, 2009 On Thursday, the so-called Gang of Six – three Republicans and three Democrats on the
“The court does not wish to hear arguments on the question”
How corporations got defined as persons. (I’d say that some arguments are over-due….) MCM http://www.ratical.org/corporations/SCvSPR1886.html Related Posts:
Great resource for info on swine flu, vaccine
I recommend you bookmark this. MCM From Gianni Ortiz: A bunch of excellent references in here. The Czech Republic has refused the vaccine from Baxter because the company will not guarantee it is safe. Apparently there is a financial incentive for schools to force vaccinations – there is an aggressive,