Biden's New Merger Guidelines Aim to Roll Back Pro-Monopoly Policies of Reagan Era

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-merger-guidelines

#BidenMergerGuidelines #RollBackMonopolyPolicies #ReaganEra #AntitrustReform #CompetitionPolicy #CorporatePower #Politics #News

#StrongTowns ep. w/Stacey Mitchell, Exec.Director., @ilsr speaks about lot more than just #DollarStores. She speaks of getting #Corporatepower under control. "We need local governments to be responsive to the people, breaking up, pushing back & downsizing power of corporations & building up local businesses, enterprises, organizations & institutions that local people have control over. The building blocks of #democracy are at the local level."
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6urqsKO4gnSUp5cV3uwIS1?si=2dfc8dd7140d400f

#Corporations #CorporatePower #Capitalism

"At a 1957 conference in San Francisco, the Deutsche Bank’s Herman Abs proposed what was described by Time magazine as a new “capitalist Magna Carta” to protect private interests against rebellious peoples, independence movements and new governments that could try to nationalise or redistribute resources. He wasn’t the only European involved."

https://novaramedia.com/2023/05/24/the-four-neat-tricks-corporations-used-to-take-over-the-world/

Chris Lehmann on Debt Ceiling Myths, Kyle Wiens on Right to Repair’s Moment

Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what's actually going on.

https://fair.org/home/chris-lehmann-on-debt-ceiling-myths-kyle-wiens-on-right-to-repairs-moment/

#Budget #CorporatePower #Debt

COMMONS: BONUS: Cory Doctorow knows why #monopolies are killing #art #podcast #music #entertainment #CorporatePower https://overcast.fm/+7ppfI8tx8

RIGHT TO REPAIR

"In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power"

https://theconversation.com/in-rural-america-right-to-repair-laws-are-the-leading-edge-of-a-pushback-against-growing-corporate-power-199372
#Oligarchy #CorporateGreed #CorporatePower #RightToRepair

‘Everyone Has a Right to Electricity and Heat’

"If just 12 utilities took 1% of their dividends that they paid out to shareholders...that could have prevented disconnections."

https://fair.org/home/everyone-has-a-right-to-electricity-and-heat/

#CorporatePower #Energy #Inequality

#TimRobbins walked out of his hotel in Soho to observe the protests & discovered the people were not far right supporters, as the media had told him, but all kinds of ordinary people, including lefties & liberals.
#LoveAndRage #CorporatePower
https://youtu.be/uMdOesJo4h8

Corporate power casts a long shadow at UN climate negotiations https://breachmedia.ca/corporate-power-casts-a-long-shadow-at-un-climate-negotiations/ #ClimateEmergency #COP27 #Canada #CorporatePower

I study #CorporatePower.

It is a topic largely overlooked by #OrthodoxEconomics and #economists.

Why? Because, theoretically, it doesn’t exist.

RT @ShaleMustFall@twitter.com

🐋Berlin 4.2.🐋Join us to demand an end of #fossilcolonialism in Perú, Argentina, South Africa, everywhere! Stop #corporatepower from destroying livelihoods, expropriating Indigenous and local communities and entrenching global inequalities!

#oceanazo #frackoff #RepsolHazteCargo

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