CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER
From our archives (2007): The cast has changed a bit, but the problem remains the same
Manacled corporado. In the US a sight as rare as flying pigs
Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime
21 Corporate Crime Reporter 25, June 12, 2007
Twenty years ago, Corporate Crime Reporter, a weekly print newsletter, was launched.
From the beginning, the most popular feature of Corporate Crime Reporter has been a question/answer format interview. Read more…
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Taft-Hartley is a clear example of class war waged by the 1% on the 99%. It’s still around.
Its main object was to cripple the potential for general strikes.
This summary courtesy of Wikipedia. We will be offering more examples of readily available information not fully utilized by activists or political bloggers.
The Labor–Management Relations Act (Pub.L. 80-101, 61 Stat. 136, enacted June 23, 1947, informally the Taft–Hartley Act) is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman‘s veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the “slave-labor bill”[1] while President Truman argued that it was a “dangerous intrusion on free speech,”[2] and that it would “conflict with important principles of our democratic society,”[3] Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.[4] The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; informally the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935. The principal author of the Taft–Hartley Act was J. Mack Swigert[5] of the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius & Hollister.
READ MORE: Alex Cockburn on “An Anti-Labor Day That Lives in Infamy” Read more…
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Year-end selects from our archives
Texas Congressman Joe Barton & his retinue. What would the “little Eichmanns” of BP and other corporations do without the enabling rendered by such revolting political prostitutes?
By Chris Hedges [Originally Posted on May 16, 2010]
Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die. They ruthlessly exploit the natural world and the members of their society in the name of progress until exhaustion or collapse, blind to the fury of their own self-destruction. The oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, estimated to be perhaps as much as 100,000 barrels a day, is part of our foolish death march. It is one more blow delivered by the corporate state, the trade of life for gold. But this time collapse, when it comes, will not be confined to the geography of a decayed civilization. It will be global. Read more…
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Part 2 (From our archives)
THE WAR OF IDEAS NEVER RESTS BECAUSE IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
By Chris Talbot – wsws.org
This is the second of a three-part series comprising a lecture by WSWS correspondent Chris Talbot to meetings of the International Students for Social Equality in Britain. Part 1 was posted on June 17 and Part 3 on June 19.
Charles Darwin
There is a wealthy and powerful movement of the Christian right in the United States that has, and still is, attempting to stop Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution being taught in schools as the basis of all biological science. It has done this by putting forward a completely unscientific defence of religious obscurantism, generally based on literal interpretations of the Bible. At first this was known as creationism. By the 1980s as many as 27 states in the US had proposed legislation that, whilst it couldn’t oppose Darwin being taught, demanded that so-called creation science was taught as well. Creationism was obviously religious. It proposed creation of the universe a few thousand years ago, a big flood, etc., so in 1987 its teaching was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court. As a result of the American Revolution, there is a separation of church and state and religion cannot be taught in schools, as it is in Britain. Read more…
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ARCHIVES
Editor’s Note: American foreign policy has many layers of duplicity, all designed to hide its true motives, and now that American power is aggressively on the move in many areas simultaneously, from the Middle East to Burma, Eastern Europe, and the larger Pacific, it’s critical for Americans to understand what is really going on. This piece goes a long way to explaining the actual situation. As usual no such analysis will ever be found in the mainstream media.
By F. William Engdahl
Left: The April 6 Youth Movement emblem. The April 6 movement is using the same raised fist symbol as the Otpor! movement from Serbia, that helped bring down the regime of Slobodan Milošević and whose nonviolent tactics were later used in Ukraine and Georgia.
Originally posted on February, 5, 2011
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
Fast on the heels of the regime change in Tunisia came a popular-based protest movement launched on January 25 against the entrenched order of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak.
Contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as “creative destruction.” Read more…
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ARCHIVES: Articles you should have read the first time around, but didn’t.
By Hiram Lee, WSWS.ORG
Lady Gaga covered in blood: Porno star or gifted singer? The confusion is inevitable as Gaga personifies the blatant decadence defining much of the arts in today’s bourgeois culture. Her art—such as it is—is shamelessly derivative (think Madonna) and sycophantic toward her audience. —Eds
Pop singer Lady Gaga has returned with her third album Born This Way. Both the album, and its title track, have gained attention for the singer’s outspoken support for gay rights. The title track has also been criticized, with some justification, for its obvious resemblance to Madonna’s music of the 1980s. Read more…
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