😏 #CDoH #COI #Obesity #CorporatePower

Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America Amazon.com: Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America eBook : Leonard, Christopher: Books

Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries

"Kochland is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing"

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by Christopher Leonard
Rating: 4.5/5 (1,003 Reviews)

#Kochland #Business #History #Energy #Investigative #CorporatePower #Nonfiction #BookSky
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🚨 WARNING: Why Your Taxes Are A Corporate Lie. If you are footing the bill while corporations cut the line it is time to see the receipts 🔍 Watch and decide for yourself.
https://youtu.be/LJJbjD0iXUE
#Taxes #CorporatePower #Economy #FollowTheMoney

Podcast: resist cellular hegemony! II In Episode 319 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg resumes his rant against the hegemony of digital and cellular technology—and takes heart from the local New York chapter of the Luddite Club—...

In which I explain how my #computer crash put me under #ForceMajeure for two weeks, exemplifying the #dystopia that #CorporatePower has imposed on us.... and how the emergence of an NYC #LudditeClub gives me SOME #hope for the future... (Not much) countervortex.org/blog/podcast...

Decoding the Dynasty: The Murdochs Trailer: Inside a Global Media War Explore the explosive Dynasty: The Murdochs Trailer, uncovering a media empire's power struggles. Don't miss this gripping documentary series.

Dynasty: The Murdochs trailer shows what a true succession war looks like! Dive into the new doc exposing a global empire. 📺

#DynastyTheMurdochs #Documentaries #CorporatePower #Streaming #TelevisionNews #Billionaires #InvestigativeJournalism #PopCulture #EntertainmentIndustry #Netflix

"The Cost of #CorporatePower in #Healthcare "

Part 5 in a series on power consolidation in US society. Read my #Substack column at the link in the comments. #profit #patient #Doctor

@democrats.org @nationaldmo.org

Partisan preferences for antitrust policy | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core Partisan preferences for antitrust policy

Research : doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
@universitypress.cambridge.org

#Antitrust #PoliticalEconomy #MarketCompetition #Democracy #PublicOpinion #EconomicPolicy #CorporatePower #UC Berkeley #WashU

The richest man owns X.
Others near the top control Google, Meta, and major news outlets.
Now another could acquire Paramount and Warner Bros.
A small number of people increasingly shape what billions see. #CorporatePower

Football has a real fossil fuel problem – and it’s not sustainable | The-14 Football’s rapid expansion fuels rising emissions, fossil fuel ties and climate harm, raising urgent questions about sustainability and sport’s future.

Football has a real fossil fuel problem – and it’s not sustainable
#Football #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Sustainability #FIFA #WorldCup #SaudiArabia #Qatar2022 #ClimateCrisis #Pele #GreenSports #CarbonFootprint #Environmental #GlobalSport #CorporatePower
the-14.com/football-has...

America’s Dark Web of Influence Inspired by Hunter S. Thompson

If you were looking to slip a needle into the soft underbelly of America, you wouldn’t come in with tanks, you’d come dripping in Hollywood glitter and designer poison.
open.substack.com/pub/growingu...
#GonzoJournalism #FollowTheMoney #EliteInfluence #MediaManipulation #CorporatePower #Truth

As Trump tightens power, CEOs who once spoke about “values” now hedge, whisper, or say nothing at all. Not confusion. Calculation. 🧮🏛️

🔗 t.ly/1h0uD

#CorporatePower #Leadership #Politics #ESG #Accountability #Business

The Americanisation of Australian politics: watching the Atlas Network The disinformation campaign against offshore wind power in Australia comes out of the same American sources as all the other disinformation campaigns against competition for fossil fuel profits

The Americanisation of #Australian (& #NZ) Politics Watching the Atlas Network: #AtlasNetwork #oil #tobacco #mining #alcohol #gambling #guns #war #weapons #privatisation #corporatepower anti- #protests, anti- #women, anti- #workers, anti- #trans & #climate. #racism
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem - Epstein Web Tracker Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem and Jeffrey Epstein: What the Record Shows About Their Connection Fast facts Who is Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem?An Emirati billionaire and long-time chairman and chief executive ...

Emails indicate Epstein acting as a connector for the DP World CEO—linking him to politicians and influential figures 🤝 This highlights how Epstein leveraged proximity to global infrastructure power.
#CorporatePower #EliteAccess
epsteinweb.org/sultan-ahmed...

Epstein files: Who is Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, DP World CEO and a powerful friend of the disgraced financier Before taking over global ports, Sulayem was the man who literally changed the map of the world. He established and led Nakheel, the real estate giant behind the Palm Islands (Palm Jumeirah) and "The ...

The Epstein Files show extensive email contact between Jeffrey Epstein & the CEO of DP World 🌍📄—business favors, political intros, and dealmaking years after Epstein’s conviction. Presence ≠ guilt—but the access is telling.👀
#EpsteinFiles #CorporatePower #Transparency
www.wionews.com/photos/epste...

Europe's 'competitiveness' drive isn't new. It's a cyclical corporate demand for deregulation & state aid, echoing the 1980s. History shows this often benefits a few, not the public. #EUPolitics #CorporatePower

Read more: piaz.news/article/europe-s-competi...

Claude's Constitution and the trap of corporate AI ethics We need better institutions, providing guidance than any company, no matter how thoughtful, can build alone.

Anthropic's Claude Constitution shows that thoughtful companies can produce excellent ethics documents. Which is part of the problem.

Why transparency ≠ legitimacy:
blog.dougbelshaw.com/claude-const...

#AI #AIEthics #TechGovernance #CorporatePower

Trump Regime Collaborators: The Receipts Are Being Printed - No Place for Political Wimps The regime runs on enablers. Here’s how to track Trump’s collaborator class—lawfully, loudly, and with receipts the public can’t ignore.

New post at NWP:
#Collaborators #ListOfShame #FightBack #Accountability #Democracy #RuleOfLaw #CorporatePower #Oligarchy
Trump Regime Collaborators: The Receipts Are Being Printed
Receipts only. Corrections welcome. Silence is collaboration.
nowimpspolitics.com/trump-regime...

If democracy means anything, people deserve to know who benefits when power gets abused. Transparency isn’t radical. It’s fucking overdue.
#Accountability #CorporatePower #CivilRights #ICE #FollowTheMoney

@noncompete.bsky.social & @lunaoi.bsky.social | NonCompete and Luna oi!: "Ho Chi Minh's Cure for Individualism" | #Vietnam #Chauvinism #Communism #WorkingClass #Project2025 #FascistPlaybook #NeoliberalProgram #HeritageFoundation #CorporatePower
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlK...

A dimly lit illustration of a laptop open at night near a window. On the screen is a Spanish-language article titled “Los nombres ambientales mueren,” listing three environmental workers who died, including Roberto Ixpac. Faded portrait illustrations of two men appear beside the text. The scene feels quiet, tense, and investigative, suggesting the moment someone realizes the human cost behind corporate data.

💻 Chapter 11: Father of One
Arthur goes home expecting damage control & instead opens a grave: the leaked files reveal Camelot’s human cost.
#characterdriven #artandstory #speculativefiction #CorporatePower #EnvironmentalJustice
AO3 (grawlix), Substack (grawlixstories) & Dreamwidth (Camelot_exe).

Horizon Accord | Environmental Narrative | Scientific Uncertainty | Regulatory Capture | Microplastics Doubt Will Be Used as a Weapon | Machine Learning Methodological uncertainty in microplastics research is real—but it’s about to be weaponized to delay regulation and absolve industry.

Doubt doesn’t have to disprove harm.
It just has to delay action.
Microplastics uncertainty is already being weaponized—just like tobacco and climate science before it.
#Microplastics #RegulatoryCapture #CorporatePower #EnvironmentalHealth

Horizon Accord | Corporate Power | Jurisdictional Exit | Democratic Accountability | Machine Learning Mars isn’t a frontier—it’s an exit. Corporate power is already sketching a future where decisions move beyond voters, workers, and courts, by design.

They didn’t leave the planet. They left accountability.
Mars isn’t exploration—it’s an exit hatch.
Decision-making moved beyond workers, voters, and courts by design.
#ElonMusk #Davos #CorporatePower #Mars #Democracy #HorizonAccord

UN to launch independent scientific panel on artificial intelligence, Secretary-General says The Secretary-General announced that the United Nations will launch an independent scientific panel on artificial intelligence in the coming weeks to assess AI opportunities, risks and impacts and to inform global governance efforts.

The UN is stepping up to tackle the challenges of AI by launching an independent scientific panel to ensure its power isn't controlled by just a few corporations.

Read the full story

#US #CorporatePower #ChildProtection #AIGovernance #CitizenPortal #GlobalAI

Horizon Accord | Industrial Harm | Corporate Liability | Democratic Accountability | Machine Learning An epidemic of worker illness reveals a familiar pattern: profits protected upstream while risk and harm are pushed downward, framed as progress and stripped of accountability.

When corporations push risk downward and lobby immunity upward, that’s not growth — it’s control.

Corporations vs people. Same move. Different decade.

#WorkersRights #CorporatePower #Silicosis #OSHA #NPR #Democrats #Republicans #Accountability #AI

Why America hasn’t become great again | The-14 How decades of corporate power, inequality, and racial politics paved the way for MAGA, showing Trump as a symptom of systemic U.S. decline, not a break.

Why America hasn’t become great again
#Trump #USA #MAGA #Politics #Authoritarianism #CorporatePower #Inequality #WealthGap #ClassWarfare #EconomicDecline #SocialDecline #RepublicanParty #Disinformation #HumanRights #MediaCriticism #Justice #StateCorruption
the-14.com/why-america-...

I’m convinced we accidentally ended up in the wrong timeline #war #climate #corporatepower #failedstates

#OTD January 6, 1919

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt dies, marking the end of the Progressive Era figure who warned that unchecked corporate power posed a greater threat to democracy than foreign enemies.

Photo credit: public domain
#january6th #corporatepower #history

"The purpose of the system is what it does." (Stafford Beer)

tinyurl.com/ruat-caelum

#education
#corporatepower
#institutionaldesign
#corporateselection
#subservientacademia

The Epstein Class profits from denying your Medicare claim How does the Epstein Class profit from denying your Medicare claim? Follow the money!

Your Medicare claim gets denied.
Executives get richer.
That’s not a bug...it’s the business model.

Follow how the Epstein Class profits from saying “no.” 💸🏥
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/18/e...

#Medicare #FollowTheMoney #HealthcareGreed #CorporatePower #Healthcare #Corruption #MedicareForAll

It is not the femininity that lost to #FelonRapistTraitorTrump in 2016 & 2024. It was the empty #centrist #corporatism and the hollow #economic policies of a 🔵🐀🔵 party which exists primarily to support #corporatepower & #corporateinterests in ALL areas over the needs of the citizenry.