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Rob Kall: Citigroup CEO to America: Don't Let Laws or Security Get In Way of Foreign Companies Taking Over US Corporations that's paraphrased as we read it. He reports that over five million US workers are employed by foreign-owned companies. Does that make the employers outsourced? 3 3 Comment Count
Joan Brunwasser: Democracy in America - It's spelled C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them." The renowned anthropologist, Margaret Mead, author of 44 books and thousands of articles and who "shone a light of understanding on human nature" and believed ... 3 3 Comment Count
Joan Brunwasser: Bush's Corporate Contortionist Act The Dubai ports controversy is only the latest example of how willing Republicans are to bend over backwards to fight for Big Business's right to make massive profits. With the Bush administration, it's important to have in mind the old carnival con game: Keep your eye on the shell with the pea under it. 3 3 Comment Count
Amanda Lang: Double Standards on Foreign Owners: Amdocs vs. DP World Reportedly, in 1999 a Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information report (TS/SCI) warned that records of calls in the US were getting into foreign hands, Israeli in particular. Yet this story garnered nary a peep from the mainstream media, so vocal in free-speech defense of race-baiting cartoons. 3 3 Comment Count
Rob Kall: Wanna Buy a Port? by Harold Meyerson Welcome to American capitalism in the age of globalization. 3 3 Comment Count
Amanda Lang: The End of the Internet? The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspa... 3 3 Comment Count
Joan Brunwasser: Vonnegut's Blues for America No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. 3 3 Comment Count
Joan Brunwasser: The End of the Internet? By Jeff Chester If Americans are to succeed in designing an equitable digital destiny for themselves, they must mount an intensive opposition similar to the successful challenges to the FCC's media ownership rules in 2003. Without such a public outcry to rein in the GOP's corporate-driven agenda, it is likely that even many of the Democrats who rallied against further consolidation will be "tamed" by the well-funded lobbying campaigns of the ... 3 3 Comment Count

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