Source: Raw Story A Raw Story Exclusive by Brad Jacobson February 4, 2010 The Supreme Court’s seismic January ruling that corporations are free to spend unlimited amounts of their profits to advertise for or against candidates may have been the latest shakeup of campaign finance – but gaping holes already allow corporations to spend enormous sums without leaving a [...]

Source: t r u t h o u t by World Business Academy January 22, 2010 Editor’s Note: Truthout is joining with the World Business Academy in an effort to demonstrate popular opposition to the unethical practice of neuromarketing manipulation. Please visit the Stop Neuromarketing page to view a video and sign the petition. Guard your reptilian brain. Corporations [...]

Esperan disponer de una figura legal que evite sean acusados de “asociación ilícita” Fuente: Liberación por Pablo Ruiz Espinoza El pasado viernes 29 de enero dirigentes mapuche, encabezados por el lonko José Cariqueo y acompañados por el abogado Lorenzo Morales, se presentaron ante el Ministerio de Justicia y el mismo Palacio La Moneda para informar al gobierno chileno [...]

Fuente: Diagonal La escasa presencia de los jefes de Estado del G-8 en la pasada Cumbre de la Alimentación de Roma impide que se avance en la toma de decisiones concretas en la lucha contra el hambre por Esther Vivas 18 de diciembre, 2009 La creciente mercantilización de la agricultura es una realidad innegable a día de hoy. La [...]

Article published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: The Independent How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? by Johann Hari January 29, 2010 This week, a disaster hit the United States, and the after-shocks will be shaking and breaking global politics for years. It did not grab the same press [...]

Article published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges January 24, 2010 Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost. The ruling is one more judicial effort to streamline mechanisms for corporate [...]

Source: The Nation by Jeremy Scahill January 22, 2010 On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. In an interview on Express TV, Gates, who was visiting Islamabad, said, “They [Blackwater and another private security firm, DynCorp] are operating as individual companies here in Pakistan,” according to a DoD transcript of the interview. [...]

Source: Free Speech for People January 22, 2010 Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment. Visit FreeSpeechforPeople.org to learn more and get involved! On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

ver también Dinero y campañas en EEUU abajo Fuente: La Jornada Ya no habrá límite, podrán gastar sin restricciones para apoyar a candidatos Obama cuestiona la decisión; advierte sobre “estampida de dinero” e intereses en la política por David Brooks 22 de enero, 2010 Nueva York, 21 de enero. Al anular casi un siglo de doctrina y leyes, la Suprema Corte [...]

Source: The Guardian It has beefed up its green credentials, but Wal-Mart’s stance on unions and sheer global scale still provoke as much fear as admiration by Andrew Clark (in Bentonville, Arkansas) January 12, 2010 It hardly shrieks of billion-dollar glamour. The US nerve centre of the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, consists of a collection of low-slung prefabricated buildings [...]