By Tim Bryant Guest Writer for Wake Up World “A brief glance at history will tell you that emperors and tyrants have been trying to expand their power and influence over greater and greater...
Category - Corporations
Oligarchical Collectivism: The Institutional “ism” That Threatens Our Very Biology
By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But...
Scandal Rocks Pharmaceutical Giant GlaxoSmithKline — Firm Faces Bribery, Wrongful Death Charges
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Pharmaceutical companies generally don’t have the best track record when it comes to transparency and fair dealings. Extortion...
Getting Away with Ecocide — Chemical Reform Bill Could Grant Monsanto Legal Immunity for PCB Pollution
5th March 2016 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Facing a surge in lawsuits across the United States, chemical giant Monsanto has been given a gift of sorts from the...
The Real Terrorists: The 0.01%
By Paul Buchheit The 0.01%. They consist of 16,000 individuals, about the size of a crowd at a professional basketball game. The inequality horror they’ve fomented is reaching far beyond the...
Manufacturing Dissent: The Anti-Globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky “By providing the funding and the policy framework to many concerned and dedicated people working within the non-profit sector, the ruling class is able to co...
5 Signs of a Dying Society
By Paul Buchheit Guest writer for Wake Up World While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who...
Greed Trumps Justice: Indigenous Tribe Stripped of Their Native Lands – Over Gold
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The Dann sisters, Carrie and Mary, are two Western Shoshone elders who live on ancestral and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent...
The Oil-igarchy: How Big Oil Conquered The World
By James Corbett Guest Writer for Wake Up World This is the story of how the oil-igarchy is on the verge of monopolizing life itself. Oil. From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate...
10 Signs You’ve Bought ‘Spin’
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World We live in a world with an incredible imbalance of power. Whether you believe in ‘conspiracies’ or not, there is no doubt...
Politicians in California May Soon be Forced to Wear Corporate Sponsor Patches Like Nascar Drivers
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World What once began as a joke could soon become a reality for California politicians. Popular on social media sites, memes calling for...
The Fracking Industry’s Answer to Toxic Wastewater: Spray It On Public Roadways
By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Just when we thought it couldn’t get much worse on the fracking front — polluted groundwater, poisoned environment...