FLOW is a 2008 Sundance film focusing on both the positive and negative aspects of a potential global water crisis. This is a film Nap town residents, being Veolia customers and neighbors with Veolia Water’s North American headquarters. The film interviews scientists and activists to evaluate the looming water crisis and the corporate and government culprits behind it. From [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘corporatism’
August 18, 2008
A brief examination of Naomi Klein’s “Shock Doctrine” using the narrative rhetorical method
I wrote a paper last semester applying some methods in rhetorical criticism to Naomi Klein’s recent book, “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”. Here’s an excerpt from the paper that focuses on dissecting her book using the narrative critical method. Sorry if some of the John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and communication theory references seem a bit [...]
August 18, 2008
Educating youth on U.S. corporatism, its history and impact on society
This is kind of old, but cool nonetheless. It’s all about awareness.
August 18, 2008
CEO campaign donations to McCain 10x more than donations to Obama
You’ve got to the follow the donation money in an election to see who gets the priority should that nominee win the race, right?
The Hill.com analyzed campaign contributions and found that,
The presumptive GOP nominee has received $208,200 from the chief executive officers of the 100 biggest Fortune 500 corporations, according to a review of campaign [...]
August 7, 2008
Sunscreen: Don’t trust the labels and know the FDA is failing us
Recent work from the Environmental Working Group finds that among 952 sunscreen products on the market, 4 out of 5 do not provide adequate protection or contain questionable ingredients. Yikes. From their cosmetic database site:
Leading brands were the worst offenders: None of market leader Coppertone’s 41 sunscreen products met EWG’s criteria for safety and effectiveness, and [...]
August 6, 2008
What are you complaining about? It was just a fellow American making $11,700,000,000 last quarter
This is dangerous, don’t you think? Rep. Roy Blunt (R) declares we should be ecstatic that America’s pride, Exxon, made so much money. They’re American so quit complaining, you complainers! Where’s your American, nationalistic pride? Exxon is one of your fellow 14th amendment enabled corporate-entity citizens and you are going to sit there and bad mouth them when those Russians, [...]
