1. The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives. For a playlist...
machbarthe corporation (2003). thecorporation.com
freakpowertixThe Corporation is a documentary directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, who goes into the psychopathic business world. Is based on the book entitled 'The Corporation, the pathological pursuit of profit and power', by Joel Bakan. The documentary begins by explaining the enormous power that w...
killurtvtubeMore information at www.alphaoculus.com The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behav...
11. Marketing has transformed itself into a sophisticated, pervasive force that extends into every part of our lives. Slick advertising campaigns are designed for the express purpose of manipulating children into buying products and training them to become mindless consumers of goods they don't r...
machbar2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is give...
3. Having acquired rights of immortal persons, what kind of person is the corporation? By law, the corporation can only consider the interests of their shareholders. It is legally bound to put its bottom line before everything else, even the public good. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order...
machbar17. Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television station they work for after refusing to change their investigative report on Posilac, a Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) made by Monsanto. Their research documents potential health and safety problems of drinking milk tre...
5. Case histories can be used to diagnose the kind of personality that makes the corporation an externality-creating machine. Externalities such as harm to employees through the use of sweatshops: the exploitation of Third World countries' employees resulting in a huge discrepancy of price versus...
machbar8. The profit motive drives the actions of the corporation and creates a mindset of competition and anything goes. Meet corporate spy and self-described predator Marc Barry as he describes his tactics for gathering intelligence from competing corporations. Juxtapose his attitude with Ray Anderson...
machbarThis is an early version of Corporation Nation that has a couple errors. 1) $ amount of pension funds is 26 trillion, not 36 trillion. 2) There are a couple millions that should be billions, or visa versa. www.onedollardvdproject.com now carries the DVD for $2. Give them to friends and family.
gnosticmediaFrom TC's third album "The Richest Man in Babylon" Track 14 [[Until the Morning]] Vocals by Emiliana Torrini Go out and buy a record.
suiriryokuThe official music video for the final track from Thievery Corporation's latest album "Radio Retaliation," which saw release on September 23rd. "Sweet Tides" features LouLou on vocals.
eslmusicdc19. The rise of fascism has links to corporate power. American corporations played a role in Nazi Germany and the holocaust, such as IBM's punchcard machines that tabulated the victims' data. Corporate allegiance to profit trumps their allegiance to nationalism.
10. We used to regard many areas as too essential to the public good to be commercialized; they were protected by tradition and regulation. Now, everything is becoming fair game in the private taking of the commons -- land, oceans, air, water, education, health, energy and social assistance. Wher...
machbar12. Some of our best creative minds are employed to create illusions that divert us from the real issues and manufacture our consent. Beyond their products, the corporation sells us the idea of a better way of life and produces propaganda that affirms their power as necessary for human progress. ...
machbarThe official music video for Thievery Corporation's track "Is It Over?" (featuring Shana Halligan on vocals) from their latest studio album "Culture of Fear" (released on ESL Music in June 2011). Please visit www.thieverycorporation.com for more information.
eslmusicdcThe corporation: Want one moving into your nieghborhood?
verifiednewsFrom Thievery's critically acclaimed second album "The Mirror Conspiracy" of 2000, featuring reggae toasters and longtime vocal collaborators Roots and Zee of See-I
eslmusicdc4. What is an externality? Milton Friedman describes it as the effect of a transaction between two parties on a third party who is not involved in the transaction. A technical sounding term that basically means let somebody else deal with the problems the corporation creates. For a playlist of al...
machbar21. A coup is no longer necessary for the corporation to dominate governments. Capitalism's protagonists and players are the new high priests of our day. Industry and government have become intertwined to the extent that it's hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. But citizens are resis...
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