Ever since the Corporate Form was "invented" - in its earliest avatar as the collective East India Companies - those who have ruled via corporation have found innovative "means" new to extract wealth from the earth and people, leaving both poorer in a zero-sum "game".
A hapless elite, an angry electorate, and a brash front-runner with little regard for democratic norms: The latest Philippine election sounds a lot like America's.
A year ago, Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip. More than 2,100 Palestinians died in the bombing — seven out of ten were civilians, according to the United Nations.
From declining worker protections to violent labor trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
US government officials - and the transnational business interests that heavily influence them - are not nearly as concerned with which country gets control over disputed piles of rocks in the South or East China Sea as they are with making sure that trade is not disrupted around these rocks.
“Nope, nope, nope,” was Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s answer to the question whether his country will take in any of the nearly 8,000 Rohingya refugees stranded at sea.
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