by Martin Eiermann* In international comparison, the United States stand out for the wide range of political hopes that are attached to the right to privacy—which covers anything from abortion and contraceptive access to employee claims against workplace surveillance and consumer rights—and for having a uniquely fragmented landscape of privacy laws. The privacy of health-related […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
by Basak Kus* “It is China, more than any other place that has served as the ‘other’ for the modern West’s stories about itself, from Smith and Malthus to Marx and Weber,” wrote historian Kenneth P…| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
Taiwan says it will resist pressure from Washington to move half of chip production to US Taiwan “will not agree” to producing 50% of its semiconductors – vital to everything from electronics and iPhones to training artificial intelligence and weapon systems – on US soil, Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said Wednesday. “Our negotiating team has never made any commitment to splitting chips 50-50, so the public can rest assured,” she told media after returning from the US aft...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
Senator Elizabeth Warren recently criticized 100 percent bonus depreciation as a costly, ineffective policy that disproportionately benefits large corporations. The OBBBA was by no means a perfect bill, but lawmakers were right to permanently extend 100 percent bonus depreciation and should work to expand it. The post Senator Warren Is Wrong About Bonus Depreciation appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
This article Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement shows the power of noncooperation was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Disney’s reversal on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t an act of corporate consciousness — it was a strategic retreat forced by coordinated pressure. This article Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement shows the power of noncooperation was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.| Waging Nonviolence
Fear and power are being used to silence dissent. But the protests over Disney censoring Jimmy Kimmel shows people are finding courage.| Waging Nonviolence
In August 2025, the software company Palantir got a $10 billion contract with the US Department of Defense (2). Palantir has been having a rather bad rap in the anti-globalist community, as it tends to be regarded as some Deep State Company, gathering data for intelligence agencies across the globe (3). Laura Aboli – the […]| Gondolath – Deep State Study Group
When Spark discovers Earth's historical flag database, her innocent misunderstanding of national symbols as "quality ratings" leads to a mind-bending revelation about humanity's true power structure: a headless architecture where nations are just frontends for the same corporate backend.| Seuros Blog - Navigation Logs from the Ruby Nebula
We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.| Landworkers Alliance
This article Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US? was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory. This article Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US? was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.| Waging Nonviolence
“His bigotry and hatred has already landed in the UK, where foundations are withdrawing funds from projects helping disadvantaged communities and companies are backtracking on commitments to fight the climate crisis."| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Former employee is suing General Mills for racial discrimination and retaliation over speaking out about racist Black History Month literature.| UNICORN RIOT
The post We won’t see real food system change until we put the interests of producers and consumers above those of corporations appeared first on Landworkers Alliance.| Landworkers Alliance
There are many things that we can do as individuals to help reduce climate change. Below, we will talk about some of the small changes you can make to your behavior to help| BioEnergy Consult
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard are investigative journalists, and together they have produced a wide-ranging account of how governments, NGO’s and global corporations collude to extract wealth from taxpayers, workers and the poorest of the poor. The overall lesson of this book is that corporate governance has replaced liberal democratic government in the developed world, and in the developing world, colonial overlordship has given way to international corporate power.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Jem will give a talk at the Festival of Commoning in Stroud, addressing the need for new approaches in light of the creeping societal collapse. He invites co-organiser Dave Derby to share his insig…| Prof Jem Bendell
by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
The Washington, D.C., attorney and writer talks to Michael E. Hartmann about “the myth of Citizens United,” its historically anachronistic basis, and its ramifications in the context of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.| the Giving Review
Individual income taxes are very progressive: In contrast, business taxes are completely flat. The federal corporate income tax rate is a flat 21%. Which means that: In fact, the truth is even more weird. The bigger a corporation, the more lawyers and accountants they can hire in order to perform tax wizardry, apply for tax … Continue reading The Best Way to Break Up Mega-Corporations: Progressive Taxes→| Outlook Zen
May 23, 2024 Dear Friends, Although it sometimes seems like just yesterday, my book When Corporations Rule the World was released into the world in 1995—29 years ago. It remains the book for which I am best known. Available in many languages and addressing questions much on people’s minds, the book quickly became an international best seller. The world was| David Korten
The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odd…| Patterns of Meaning
It’s time to face the fact that resolving the climate crisis will require a fundamental shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system. Originally published October 9, 20…| Patterns of Meaning
A primer for citizens who want to engage in strategy-based activism aimed at undoing decades of work by the anti-democracy movement.| Democracy Theme Park
Would you like to neutralize corporations’ ability to get so many GOOD laws declared unconstitutional? There’s an “app” for that—-an approach, that is.| Democracy Theme Park
Check out my guest Q&A at the CaMP Anthropology blog, where I interview Michael Prentice about his findings and research process. An organizational researcher, Prentice has just published his o…| Markets, Power, and Culture
