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As below, so above

Body: Speaking of micro-organisisms, DarkSyde has a wonderful post up at Kos about the bedbugs, the Black Death, and Halloween (among other things). Read the whole thing, but this sentence leaped out...

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Fresh Fruit at Affordable Prices!

Body:  Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van...

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And speaking of our bodies, ourselves...

Body: I think I've spotted an actual desiring machine in the field! Scientific American: Splenda is not satisfying—at least according to the brain. A new study found that even when the palate cannot...

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Why do Employers Want a Role in Health Care?

Body: "Why should KitchenAid make blenders and health care coverage decisions? Why should lumber companies cut trees and create hospital networks?"Ezra Klein asks and gives some reasons why , and the...

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Something to Pass Around

Body: Not news to anyone here, but still worth repeating:But it's not just wealthy individuals who grotesquely manipulate the system for their benefit. It's the multinational corporations they own and...

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Fortieth Anniversary of the Lewis Powell Memo

Tags: corporationsrentLewis Powell[NOTE: Since this is an event, I'm putting it on the Calendar. But it also occurs to me that some sort of celebration might be a good idea as well. After all, it looks...

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Corporations can't dump secret dough on our elections says Montana Supreme Court

Thread: CorporatismTags: electionscorporationsSupreme CourtMontanacitizens unitedNot sure whether you had linked to this story, but Montana's Supreme Court upheld a state ban on corporate money in...

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Gov Schweitzer of Montana Op Ed on Citizens United

Departments: Department of Now It All Makes SenseTags: corruptioncorporationsMontanaBrian Schweitzercitizens unitedMontanaMaven"Mining for Influence in Montana"

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A chicken or egg story

Body: "The reality is that representative democracy, at the core, has to be about people voting, has to be about people engaging in political parties, has to be about people having contact with elected...

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Nader Calls Out US Global Corporations as Unpatriotic!

Body: Ralph Nader believes it is time to put U.S. global corporations on the DEFENSIVE! He declares that would be “the first step for the resurgence of the people so that corporations become our...

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Ukraine Crisis Christmas for Corporate-Pimped Canadian Pols

Body: Matthew Behrens calls out -- big time -- Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, along with John Baird, Harper’s “foreign affairs pitbull” in “Ukraine and Canada’s Coup-Supporting Corporate...

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