Pap Attack: The Corporate Death Grip on America

New IRS rules could temper big campaign cash

Corporate cash sways voters on GMO foods

The Koch's Media Machine

6 Corporations That Control Your Perception | Think Tank

Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What GEO Group Doesn't Want You to Know about Its New Stadium Sponsorship | Alternet

Cover Ups, Corruption and Death: What GEO Group Doesn't Want You to Know about Its New Stadium Sponsorship | Alternet
"The real story behind how the largest private prison company bought the naming rights to Florida Atlantic University's football stadium."

For-Profit School Backed By TN GOP Caught Deleting Bad Grades

For-Profit School Backed By TN GOP Caught Deleting Bad Grades
"It never ceases to amaze me, that voters keep falling for the same old tricks. An already-expensive school system will magically perform even better when a private company slashes costs in order to skim a layer of profit off the top? It hasn't worked yet. Instead, these for-profit schools continue to manufacture scandal and fraud -- yet the Very Important People on both sides of the aisle continue to push them as a solution."

Fox' Bolling Blames Union Contracts for the U.S. Postal Service's Financial Woes

Fox' Bolling Blames Union Contracts for the U.S. Postal Service's Financial Woes
"Leave it to Fox to do the bidding of the House Republicans and their allies, who are doing their best to try to destroy the U.S. Postal Service. Never mind the damage that would be done to the elderly who rely on the mail to receive their prescriptions, small businesses and Americans who live in rural areas with shoddy Internet service and the thousands of Americans who earn a decent middle class living from being employed there."

Quelle Surprise! New York Times Takes Up Empty Threats by Rich Over Taxes « naked capitalism

Quelle Surprise! New York Times Takes Up Empty Threats by Rich Over Taxes « naked capitalism
"Brace yourselves. We are only going to hear more kvetching from the rich for being asked to take a wee dose of the austerity medicine they are all too happy to force on the middle class and poor."
Read more at http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/quelle-surprise-new-york-times-takes-up-empty-threats-by-rich-over-taxes.html#SwHwUktJYfbVPziV.99 

Ayn Rand Classes Forced on Children

Let's Face It, Ayn Rand's Gospel of Selfishness and Billionaire Empowerment Is the Dominant Ideology | Alternet

Let's Face It, Ayn Rand's Gospel of Selfishness and Billionaire Empowerment Is the Dominant Ideology | Alternet
"Between stupidity like this, and the re-birth of Ayn Rand through corporate-funded think tanks and Hollywood movies, the Billionaire Class wants to make sure the next generation buys into a toxic ideology that’s quite literally destroying the world as we know it."

Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control: Meet the Global Corporate "Supra-Government" (Part I)

Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control: Meet the Global Corporate "Supra-Government" (Part I)
"Corporate culture creates, over time, a totalitarian culture as this dominant institution seeks to remake society in its own image - where people are punished and impoverished as corporations are supported, rewarded and empowered."

Super Wealthy CEO Admits Spending Cuts Will Hurt The Economy, Wants Them To Happen Anyway

Super Wealthy CEO Admits Spending Cuts Will Hurt The Economy, Wants Them To Happen Anyway: For a hint of what austerity can do to an economy, one needs to look no further than Europe. And the U.S. is in for a dose of austerity of its own due to spending cuts under the so-called “sequester” that are scheduled to take place in March. Honeywell CEO David Cote — who is [...]/p

The Real "Recovery": Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control

The Real "Recovery": Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
"Welcome to the “economic recovery,” where the big banks and corporations that created the global economic crisis – with the servile participation of our elected governments – are doing better than ever before, making record profits while poverty hits record levels. This is what we call “democracy.”

Perhaps it is time people begin to redefine the words “recovery” and “democracy," unless we want to see more of the same."

The Washington Post Can't Even Get A Basic News Story Right

The Washington Post Can't Even Get A Basic News Story Right
"No, it's not your imagination. The Washington Post far too frequently slants their "news" stories in service of a pro-conservative, pro-corporate, pro-privatization agenda - whether on purpose or through sheer carelessness, it's hard to say. But this is only the latest example"

How CNBC And Fox News Misinformed Viewers About The Dangers Of The Debt Ceiling

How CNBC And Fox News Misinformed Viewers About The Dangers Of The Debt Ceiling: House Republicans recently agreed to raise the debt ceiling, preventing a self-inflicted economic calamity. Experts agree that failure to raise the debt ceiling would have catastrophic consequences for the U.S. economy. The debt ceiling debacle of 2010, during which the U.S. did not actually breach the debt limit and default, will wind up costing U.S. [...]/p

Foreign Policy Mag's 'Top 100 Global Thinkers': A Rogue's Gallery of Imperialists, Billionaires and Cheerleaders of Capitalist Domination | Alternet

Foreign Policy Mag's 'Top 100 Global Thinkers': A Rogue's Gallery of Imperialists, Billionaires and Cheerleaders of Capitalist Domination | Alternet
"Given the neoliberal presentation of the mission statement, it's not surprising to find corporate apologists well-represented in the marketplace. Global Thinker no. 65, for example, is US economist Paul Romer, whose crusade to revive the practice of colonialism in the world is creatively euphemised by FP into a "novel idea for persuading a developing country to sign away a parcel of land to be governed by a foreign power as a model for economic growth"."

How Corporate Interests Killed Common Sense

How Corporate Interests Killed Common Sense
"All in all, $40 million was spent to defeat a measure which would have expanded food labels. Food labels! Here is the million-dollar plus Hall of Shame, much of it reported after the election:"

Chick-fil-A’s Latest Horror -- Children's Book Loaded with Propaganda to Conceal the Horrors of Corporate Agriculture | Alternet

Chick-fil-A’s Latest Horror -- Children's Book Loaded with Propaganda to Conceal the Horrors of Corporate Agriculture | Alternet
"This is not an overstatement. Chick-fil-A, like most fast-food companies, is the retail expression of the factory farming industry — an industry whose  hideous treatment of animals, vertical integration and rooting in monoculture is the opposite of the diversified family farm so beautifully glorified in “The Jolly Barnyard.” Perhaps worse, as a primary buyer — and, thus financial supporter — of the factory-farmed products, Chick-fil-A is one of the major fast-food players responsible for the demise of “Jolly Barnyard”-esque family farms.

But rather than own up to its record with a children’s book about its odious business model, Chick-Fil-A (not surprisingly) wants kids to think of it through a much more pleasant story."

How Big Business Poisons Academic Research | Common Dreams

How Big Business Poisons Academic Research | Common Dreams
"Yet public funding for that kind of research has eroded over recent decades, and these schools have turned to corporations to augment their budgets. The consequences of increasing dependence on profit-driven research in academia are becoming troublingly clear. The recent exposure of numerous sham scientific reports generated by biased individuals at supposedly objective institutions should draw intense public scrutiny to this new era of corporate-funded science."