Tag: Corporations
Company towns make a comeback, US blunders its escape from Afghanistan, update from Sheikh Jarrah
Naomi Karavani introduces viewers to a retro development in corporate totalitarian power. ‘Company towns’ were made famous by coal towns where miners and their families would live in houses, shop at grocery stores, spend independent ‘scrip’ currencies, and send their kids to schools owned by their employers. Modern corporations are trying to bring back this practice in towns across the US. …
The big AG monopoly, Governor Cuomo’s corruption, corporations turn to prison slave labor
Naomi Karavani hosts Redacted Tonight this week. A few corporations have taken near-monopoly control over the foods we buy in grocery stores. Karavani exposes how these special interests have managed to win insane subsidies for their businesses and force processed food products on society. It’s a story of lobbying, bribes, and propaganda that lets these corporations get away with putting trash on our tables while paying the people who produce their products peanuts. …
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling BLASTS jailing of drone informant Daniel Hale
n this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling. He discusses the growing tensions between the US, Israel and Iran in the Persian Gulf, official leaks versus unofficial ‘frowned upon’ leaks, the weaponisation of the Espionage Act against himself and Daniel Hale, the man who revealed the shocking civilian casualties of the US drone program …
The eviction moratorium, Nina Turner’s loss, the opioid epidemic
Lee Camp takes a look back at how Congress played economic brinkmanship with the eviction moratorium over the past week. Millions of people were threatened with eviction without the moratorium. If it weren’t for Representative Cori Bush and the people who slept at the Capitol with her, evictions would be in full swing right now. …
The future of farming, the foreclosure crisis, and video-game industry labor abuse
Lee Camp looks into a solution to humanity’s widespread destruction of agricultural land. Hydroponic farming technologies offer society the ability to feed everyone using less land and less water. The corporate world is always looking for ways to ruin anything good, but, barring their interference, these technologies could improve billions of lives. …
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi: ‘2-state solution is dead, Israel destroyed it… Palestine will not surrender!’
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, former member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. She discusses why the two-state solution is dead, Israel’s responsibility for destroying it, the international community’s inaction over Israel’s illegal occupations, annexations, and airstrikes, the 11 days of aerial bombardment of Gaza which killed 248, including 66 children …
Modern slavery, BLM, British elections
The corporate media is pushing stories about child labor in China because they have a new Cold War to sell to us. Lee Camp brings you the slavery stories the propagandists won’t tell you about. The corporate world is run on child labor, from the precious metals that make our cell phones work to the chocolate that Nestlé delivers to the store shelves. Camp also covers racist police violence. …