Two years ago, Mattel Inc. gave CBS a choice. The network had refused to broadcast the toymaker’s movie “Barbie in the Nutcracker” in prime time. So Mattel threatened to pull millions of dollars of advertising from the Nickelodeon cable channel — owned by CBS parent Viacom Inc.
[Read more]Corporations the Only Winners in Occupation of Iraq
The Bush administration’s foreign policy, like domestic policy, often seems to come directly from corporate board rooms. While U.S. soldiers attempt to establish law and order in Iraq, Bush has put oil companies above the law.
[Read more]The Language of Power, Fear and Emptiness
To create a dependency dynamic between him and the electorate, Bush describes the nation as being in a perpetual state of crisis and then attempts to convince the electorate that it is powerless and that he is the only one with the strength to deal with it. He attempts to persuade people they must transfer power to him, thus crushing the power of the citizen, the Congress, the Democratic Party, to concentrate all power in the imperial presidency and the Republican Party.
[Read more]Rank Divides America
By breaking the taboo on discussing rank, giving this kind of abuse and discrimination a name and revealing its costs, we can anticipate that the tacit social consensus that supports rankism will unravel. Like the members of other identity groups, victims of rankism can then be expected to join forces and make themselves heard.
[Read more]Argument Against a Bank of Wal-Mart
President of CountryBank USA, in North Dakota, presents the FDIC with concerns about Wal-Mart’s maneuvers to go into the banking business.
[Read more]Book Chains Versus the First Amendment
If the book chains continue displacing community-based booksellers, we all will lose out as prices climb higher (B&N already has eliminated the heavy discounting on which it built market share). More importantly, the diversity of published thought will erode in a market dominated by a few centralized powers.
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