© 2018 Greg & Sylvia RAY

corruption

Read more about the article The corporate war on humanity

The corporate war on humanity

The murder of that "health insurance" CEO in the USA has blown the lid off a simmering conflict in which most of us are unwilling combatants. I'm not even repeating the dead guy's name, because it's irrelevant to my argument. And let's even leave aside, for now, the person who pulled the trigger of the gun that fired the famously inscribed bullets. In my view, what killed the CEO was the the corporation he served with such brutal enthusiasm, backed by the money system that gives such corporations their apparently invincible power. As I've said before,…

Continue ReadingThe corporate war on humanity
Read more about the article You are being robbed and you should be angry

You are being robbed and you should be angry

October 31, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray Pork-barrelling is theft, plain and simple. Every time politicians redirect money from programs meant to benefit people and communities that need it, pushing it instead into projects that benefit their electoral prospects, it is theft. We are used to calling it "pork-barrelling", which makes it sound harmlesss. But it's anything but harmless. It's corrosive, wasteful, dishonest, and unethical and it my opinion it ought to be a criminal offence. They say the term "pork barrelling" originated back in the 1700s when barrels of salted pork were allegedly provided as…

Continue ReadingYou are being robbed and you should be angry
Read more about the article Those demonic corporations . . .

Those demonic corporations . . .

IN the excellent 2003 documentary The Corporation, the film-makers start from the premise that corporations have been granted most of the same rights under the law as individuals are supposed to enjoy, then ask what kind of individuals their behaviours reveal them to be. Sociopathic, seems to have been the main diagnosis, and it’s easy to see why. I’ve often thought that somebody ought to create a comprehensive index of the misdeeds of the multiplicity of corporations that increasingly rule all aspects of our lives. Any time you were interested in a particular corporation you could…

Continue ReadingThose demonic corporations . . .
×
×

Cart