Crony capitalism is a term describing an economy in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials. It may be exhibited by favouritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, […]
I am very impressed with the super effective activism of the AVAAZ (meaning "Voice") campaign network. They take on various crimes that threaten democracy, peace or the environment. It is easy to support them — just go to www.AVAAZ.org. Effective […]
When a respected dissident, someone who is extremely critical towards the government and usual not shy to blame it for rather sever acts, essentially states "this time it's not the government — relax people it's not always a conspiracy" — […]
31 October 2011. Rupert Murdoch already owns 70 percent of Australia’s newspapers. Rupert Murdoch could secure his stranglehold on the Australian media by acquiring the Australian public international TV news network — and rob a struggling ABC of $223 million in […]
Electronic voting machines have the potential to destroy any democracy quickly and silently. By handing over the power of the people to the hands of a few corporate or governmental insiders the potential for fraud is obviously enormous. Imagine a […]
As expected, the ongoing and increasing anti Wall-Street demonstrations — the anti corporatism demonstrations also known as "Occupy Wall Street (OWS)" in New York and Boston, remain largely ignored by the mainstream (= corporate) media in the USA. Even if […]
Why fight corporatism? Corporatism is the organization of a society into corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising control over persons and activities. Miriam Webster Dictionary or The first stage of Fascism should more appropriately be called […]
When I talk about presidential candidate Ron Paul I keep hearing he wants to get back to the gold standard or legalize marijuana and similar lies spread by the corporate media about his political positions. As most of the mainstream […]
Here are the results of the important Ames, Iowa straw poll August 2011: A total of 16,892 people cast votes in the 2011 Ames Straw Poll. U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) — 4,823 (28.6%) U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) — 4,671 […]
It has been over four years now that one of the biggest cities in the western world has banned any form of outdoor advertising: Sao Paulo de Brazil. Billboards, outdoor video screens and ads on buses and taxis as well […]
With the use of free adblock plugins in internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome it has become easy to fight advertising — at least on the Internet. Think of it, marketing, advertising, public relation are modern names […]
Here is an excellent article on how consumerism should be considered the true direct cause of riot crimes (and probably many others). Consumerism, of course, could claim marketing, advertising and the media industry are its culprits. Then again, the media […]