Dos relatores de Naciones Unidas lanzan sendas propuestas para aplicar la justicia universal también a las corporaciones por Pere Rusiñol 24 de agosto, 2009 Los directivos de Shell decidieron hace un par de meses pagar 11 millones de euros por la muerte de nueve activistas ogonis que en 1995 protestaban por la actividad de la compañía petrolera en [...]

by Chris Hedges August 23, 2009 Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428% Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10 —Harper’s Index, September 2009

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

by Danielle Ivory August 23, 2009 One of the nation’s most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results. Records that tracked the amount of the weed-killer atrazine in about 150 watersheds from [...]

The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot – we can’t let billions perish

see video of The Corporation: Democracy Ltd. by Robert C. Hinkley The corporation is no more than an aggregation of capital managed for the proportional benefit of those who supply it.  It is a system controlled by managers, administrators and clerks largely for the benefit of passive investors looking for a higher return than they can earn [...]

A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Capitalism’s protagonists and players are the new high priests of our day. Industry and government have become intertwined to the extent that it’s hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. But citizens are resisting and protesting their dissent to the [...]

by Fredreka Schouten August 19, 2009 WASHINGTON – Defense lobbyists spent nearly $750,000 to help honor Obama administration officials during the first six months of the year, accounting for nearly half of the payments made then, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows. Lockheed Martin, followed by three other defense contractors -BAE Systems, TriWest Healthcare Alliance and [...]

by Anupama Narayanswamy and Luke Rosiak, Sunlight Foundation and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica August 18, 2009 In 2008, Bermuda’s influential reinsurance industry needed some help. Successive seasons of monster hurricanes in the United States, where much of its client base is, had cost these insurers of insurance companies $22 billion in losses. Eager to avoid a repeat — [...]

see video of The Corporation: Monstrous Obligations by Robert C. Hinkley August 18, 2009 Every day legal corporate behavior causes much more damage to the commons than corporate illegal behavior.  Electricity generators do not break the law when they emit billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year warming the Earth to dangerous levels.  No law [...]