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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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From Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission to the Council on Foreign Relations, International Chamber of Commerce and Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie foundations, here are the institutions that shaped our current power structure.
The cross-membership that exists between boards of corporations, think tanks, foundations, educational institutions and advisory groups has made today's elites a highly integrated, organized and evolved social group.
Occupy.com is launching a research project to examine the networks of global power between banks, corporations, governments and international institutions.
With record-breaking profits and record-low taxes, corporations around the world have been hoarding record-high amounts of cash while finding legal loopholes to pay less, or none, of their taxes.
Since June of 2009, 88% of all U.S. growth went to corporate profits, while wages and salaries represented 1% of growth. There's never been a worse recovery for jobs and worker pay -- and never a better one for corporate profits.
Swiss researchers have found that of the world's 43,000 transnational corporations, a "super-entity" of 147 tightly-knit companies, which all own each other, collectively constitute 40% of the total wealth in the entire global network.
“Free trade," as we know it, is a drain on the economy, creates enormous national debts and undermines labor. So why should we tolerate the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
While increasing corporate patent rights and curbing Internet freedom, the TPP would also establish an "international tribunal" to enforce the "rights" of corporations over governmental law regarding environment, finance and labor rights.
What makes the TPP unique isn't just that it is the largest “free trade agreement” ever negotiated but that it's the most secretive trade negotiations in history with no public oversight, input, or consultations.
An “emergency law” to “restore order” in Quebec amounts to a declaration of war on the student movement as mass protests continue against proposed 80% increase in tuition costs.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.