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Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

The office of the presidency in particular has never seen anything like the petty jobbery and open malfeasance of Trump and the people around him.
All misdeeds are not the same, and there is a real difference between the unseemly revolving door
between business and government — the plum position on a corporate board or an easy lobbying gig
— and a new status quo in which business leaders and heads of state give the president actual tribute in order to put themselves in the…

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

"These deals represent the corporate capture of the UK state including, our cloud capacity, National Health Service, and now our military establishment...
Starmer’s inability to speak the truth is not diplomacy. It’s evidence." @…

Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

Data privacy whistleblowers would get expanded protections under California proposal https://therecord.media/california-data-privacy-agency-whistleblower-protections-proposal

What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…

As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression In Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.

On January 1, 1994,
Indigenous peoples from #Chiapas, Mexico, rose up.
They took control of city halls in towns across the state.
They took the state capital #San #Cristobal

The 1994 Zapatista Uprising: Resisting NAFTA and corporate capitalism
The Zapatistas rose up on January 1, 1994, just over three decades ago. They remain an inspiration for social movements, communities, and individuals seeking change around the world. This is episode 83 of Stories of Resistance.

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…

The former executive producer of 60 Minutes Bill Owens
said he faced intense internal pressure from his corporate bosses
to avoid certain stories that had the potential to generate backlash for parent company Paramount,
in his first public remarks since his sudden resignation in late April.
In January, 60 Minutes ran a segmentfeaturing former state department employees who had quit over how Joe Biden’s administration handled the war in Gaza.
The segment drew bac…