#corporate-power — Public Fediverse posts

How unhealthy ultra‑processed foods are designed and marketed to make us crave them
#UltraProcessedFood #PublicHealth #FoodIndustry #Health #Diabetes #Nutrition #HealthPolicy #Obesity #FoodSystems #CorporatePower #Science #HealthyEating #HeartDisease
https://the-14.com/how-unhealthy-ultra-processed-foods-are-designed-and-marketed-to-make-us-crave-them/

Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami – but is AI really to blame?
#AI #TechLayoffs #BigTech #Microsoft #Meta #Automation #Economy #Jobs #FutureOfWork #Tech #CorporatePower #SiliconValley #Innovation #Business #Layoff #Politics #World
https://the-14.com/meta-and-microsoft-have-joined-the-tech-layoff-tsunami-but-is-ai-really-to-blame/

GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplepowerunited/p/workers-families-people-over-billionaires-a-may-day-demand-no-ice-no-war?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#workersrights #billionaires #labor #greed #democracy #taxtherich #justice #uspol #noice #ice #fuckice #war #nowar #families #peace #publicmoney #opportunity #corporatepower #oligarchy #plutocracy #kakistocracy #lobbyists #superpacs #pac #students #generalstrike @peoplepowerunited

WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/02/wsj-lobbyists-easily-destroyed-any-semi-serious-antitrust-enforcers-left-in-maga/

The Seduction of Simple Answers

https://urbanwronski.com/2026/03/30/the-seduction-of-simple-answers/

Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries "Kochland is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing" Sale: $23 to $2.99 by Christopher Leonard Rating: 4.5/5 (1,003 Reviews) #Kochland #Business #History #Energy #Investigative #CorporatePower #Nonfiction #BookSky ​

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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
https://the-14.com/football-has-a-real-fossil-fuel-problem-and-its-not-sustainable/

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

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/18/they-didnt-leave-the-planet-they-left-accountability/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/16/they-didnt-grow-the-economy-they-shrunk-the-worker-inside-it/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Part II: Food for Profit

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://sein.com.au/articles/kill-the-corporation-2-food-for-profit/

How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.

#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yFKNtpBkv8

The Hidden Link Between EV, Tariffs, Wind Energy, Greenland, Venezuela, and Oil Imperialism

The fight over EVs and renewables exposes how resource extraction still drives U.S. economic and foreign policy.

After a €120M fine, X has banned the European Commission from running ads. This retaliatory move highlights the growing friction between big tech power and democratic regulation.

https://1312blogs.org/kalvin0x58c/elon-musks-x-bans-european-commission-from-making-ads-after-eu120m-fine

#ElonMusk #X #EuropeanCommission #BigTech #Regulation #DigitalRights #AdBan #FreedomOfSpeech #DigitalServicesAct #EU #TechNews #Democracy #Censorship #CorporatePower #SocialMedia #1312blogs #kalvin0x58c #InternationalRelations #TechEthics

Trump Helps Ellison Fight Off Netflix In Bid For Warner Brothers By Pretending To Care About ‘Antitrust Reform’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/03/trump-helps-ellison-fight-off-netflix-in-bid-for-warner-brothers-by-pretending-to-care-about-antitrust-reform/

When a 'megafab' needs a home, apparently a 91-year-old loses hers. Micron's $100B project in New York is raising eyebrows. The human cost of progress, eh? Where do we draw the line between technological advancement and individual rights?

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/micron-superfab-evicts-91-year-old-new-york/

#TechNews #CorporatePower #CommunityImpact #Ethics

Trump Tries to Ride Zohran Mamdani’s Momentum in Awkward Oval Office Lovefest

Trump tries to align himself with Zohran Mamdani’s rising progressive movement, but Mamdani keeps the focus on affordability, justice, and workers.

#corporatePower #costOfLiving #democraticSocialism #donaldTrump #egbertoOffTheRecord #fdrPortrait #gazaHumanRights #iceEnforcement #incomeInequality #independentMedia #mediaSpectacle #newDealLegacy #newYorkCityHousingCrisis #nycAffordability #nycHomelessness #policingAndPublicSafety #politicsDoneRight #progressivePolitics #trumpPressConference #workingClassIssues #zohranMamdani

https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oey

Another shining example of what happens when money talks and First Nations culture walks. Andrew Forrest is once again trying to bend the sacred Ashburton River in the Pilbara to his private gain, seeking to build a cluster of weirs and irrigation works along a stretch of water deemed spiritual country by the Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation.
This isn’t about “regional sustainability” or “closing the water-gap” as the gloss might suggest: the tribunal previously found that the primary beneficiary of the project would be Forrest’s own pastoral-and-mining interests, not the wider community. Meanwhile the Thalanyji people are forced into court-rooms fighting for respect of their heritage, forced to watch their river, their serpent spirit Warnamankura’s home, become fodder for corporate ambition.
This is a vivid illustration of how the wealthy and well-connected continue to appropriate land and culture for private enrichment—while Indigenous custodians bear the cost. If we are truly serious about justice, we should be calling out not just miners drilling into deserts but billionaires bending rivers and courts to suit their balance-sheet.

#australia #indigenousrights #environment #corporatepower #auspol #olygarchy #greed #Twiggy #pissofftwiggy #fuckofftwiggy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/andrew-forrest-traditional-owners-in-sat-ashburton-river-plan/105966594

Why look at corporations to understand inequality? 💰

In our latest Just Access Podcast, host Dr. Miranda Melcher speaks with Professor Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation and The New Corporation, about how “good” corporations deepen inequality and threaten democracy.

🎧 Listen on Acast, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts
👉 https://shows.acast.com/just-access/episodes/why-look-at-corporations-to-understand-inequality

#HumanRights #Democracy #Inequality #CorporatePower #TheCorporation #JoelBakan #JustAccessPodcast

Elon Musk’s record-breaking $975B Tesla payout cements his control, raising questions about shareholder power, Texas-friendly laws, and the future of corporate capitalism.

#ElonMusk #Tesla #PayoutPackage #CorporatePower #Capitalism #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/texas-legalizing-corporate-monarchy-musk-compensation-controversy/

Corporate lobby groups are promoting a radical plan to create an EU-level ‘28th regime’ of parallel, weaker rules for start-ups and ‘innovative’ companies.

This could lead to a social dumping disaster across the European Union and trigger a race to the bottom for social rights

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime

#RulesToProtect #deregulation #corporatepower

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Ethics #Decentralization #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalRights #AntiMonopoly #CorporatePower

Received an email by the #NANOG mailing list in which they raise a pretty concerning thing: Apparently, #Spain started to intercept or nullroute certain IP addresses of #CDN providers. The intent is to fight #piracy during #football matches.

Do the people who pass the list of IP addresses even understand the significance of blocking a bunch of #CDN networks of various providers? Seriously?! It #censors access to tens of thousands of legitimate #websites which is blatantly accepted as a #collateral to help out some shady sports association in their #copyright?

How much shadier can a decision be? Since this is a thing, maybe they can think about taking down entire regions in Spain the next football match?

The amount of collateral damage in the name of copyright is ridiculous. The #EuropeanUnion really has to step-up their game in addressing those concerning developments. I read about multiple such blatant decisions so far. Eyeing at you, #Quad9 and #Sony...

#copyrightinfringement #LaLiga #digitalsovereignty #eu #digitaleurope #corporatepower

"…#Democrats’ unrequited pursuit of #bipartisanship can lead them to undermine their legislative initiatives. But the [#broadbandpolicy] story #EzraKlein shared absolutely doesn’t support the thrust of #Abundance or the themes of the wider #Abundancemovement.

In fact, the takeaway from the broadband tale is that the biggest obstacles to efficiency and abundance are often #corporatepower and its #corruptinginfluence on our politics — factors typically downplayed or unmentioned in the Abundance Discourse."
@davidsirota

https://www.levernews.com/abundance-is-how-dems-lose-to-trump/

The alarming stance of Trump’s new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, prioritizes the arrest of Tesla protesters. She echoes Trump’s orders to aggressively prosecute dissenters, with extreme penalties looming—up to 20 years in prison. This reflects a troubling pattern valuing corporate interests over human rights, contrasting sharply with the administration’s leniency toward January 6 offenders. Dive deeper into this unsettling trend [here](https://crooksandliars.com/2025/04/trump-ag-only-interested-protecting-tesla). #ProtestRights #CorporatePower #HumanRights

Race You To The Water

The other day I expressed some misgivings over the word that Earthworks chose to apply to water in the first sentence of its report, Polluting the Future: their characterization of water as an “asset,” I said, made me uneasy. The water flowing from springs and brooks, the water of rivers, lakes and streams, the raindrops that fall from the sky and the dew on the morning grass, the water in our bodies, in plants and trees, the water in dogs, flowers, bugs, fish, elephants, walruses and caterpillars, the water in everything that is alive on earth — water is and will always be something greater, more wondrous and something other than a mere entry in the accounting ledgers of some grand business enterprise, which is all that the word “asset” conjures for me.

I came across the word again today as I was reading an editorial in The Detroit Free Press. I am in complete sympathy with the position it takes against plans to build a huge network of oil pipelines carrying diluted bitumen (or dilbit) across the Great Lakes region, and to transport crude oil by barge across Lake Superior. These are reckless, irresponsible ideas. The threat they pose to the integrity of the Lakes and the life the Lakes sustain is only made worse when you consider a couple of salient facts. First (and it is curious that the editorial does not mention this), the new mining around Lake Superior — as I’ve noted repeatedly — is already going to put pressure on Lake Superior and the Lake Superior watershed; the shipping of oil by barge would bring even more industrialization and greatly heighten the risk of environmental catastrophe. Second, the company building and running the pipeline (the Canadian company Enbridge) has already been responsible for an environmental disaster in Kalamazoo, Michigan — the worst inland oil spill in US history, in fact.

The editorial takes the position that these plans betray a “deep misunderstanding of the true value of the lakes,” but when the editors try to say what that value is, they run into trouble:

It’s easy to wax poetic about the value of the Great Lakes to Michigan and the other states they border. The beauty of the lakes, the wildlife and fish that dwell in and around the lakes, the environmental benefits the lakes present — they’re incalculable.

But let’s get practical: Clean freshwater is one of the scarcest commodities there is. And it’s only going to get worse. Clean water will be an asset that’s worth far more than oil. Jeopardizing the Great Lakes isn’t just morally and ethically wrong. It’s financially foolish, as well.

It’s interesting how the argument here moves, in just a couple of short paragraphs, from the “incalculable” to the crudest of calculations — the “worth” of clean water. This is tantamount to arguing that what is “morally and ethically” right should take second place to what is financially sound — as if finance should have more claim on the imagination and intellect (and the heart) than morality, and monetary value should be privileged over moral and ethical considerations.

I suppose that’s the way it goes nowadays, and I just need to get real. Still, there’s a great swirl of confusion in these two paragraphs, and I have a number of questions about the concept of morality being invoked here, how we’re to distinguish it from ethics, and why those things don’t seem to figure into what are called “practical” considerations. Practice and finance here are unmoored from and unrestricted by moral and ethical concerns; it’s precisely that kind of thinking that got us into the precarious situation we’re now in.

One remedy for all this confusion may lie in the perspective that holds water to be a basic human right — a perspective I also found missing from the Earthworks report. But even then we need to go beyond talking about assets and recognize the limitations of the argument that “clean freshwater is one of the scarcest commodities.” Why? Follow the link from The Detroit Free Press editorial to the National Geographic site on the “Freshwater Crisis.” There you enter a Malthusian world:

While the amount of freshwater on the planet has remained fairly constant over time—continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into our cups—the population has exploded. This means that every year competition for a clean, copious supply of water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and sustaining life intensifies.

Here, all of humanity is engaged in a contest or race. More and more people enter every year to compete for the same, limited resources. This is one reason why it’s imperative to recognize freshwater as a human right. Otherwise, history becomes a death match, or a big, global reality TV show: intensifying “competition” over this scarce “commodity” means that there will be winners and losers in the water game. The winners are fully vested with their rights; the losers struggle to survive in arid, toxic regions, or simply die of thirst.

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