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Stop Capitalist Impunity! / U.S. Corporate Crime is 20 times greater than all other crime combined- Ralph Nader

Another great exposé of the 100% embedded corruption of Corporate USA, although lacking in any clue about how to fix Predator Capitalism

by Ralph Nader at Dandelion Salad via thefreeonline May 28, 2022

“economic impact of corporate crime is at least twenty times greater than all other criminal offenses combined,” Corporate Crime in the U.S.

**Commercial Defrauding of Uncle Sam—Biggest Booming Business, by Ralph Nader**

Is Corporate Criminal Law Heading for Extinction?

Crimes without criminals was not a subject for study when I was in law school. The two were seen as part of the same illegal package.

That was before notorious corporate lawyers and a cash register Congress combined to separate economic, health and safety crimes from corporate accountability, incarceration and deterrence.

Lawlessness is now so rampant that a group of realistic law professors, led by Professor Mihailis E. Diamantis of the University of Iowa Law School, claim there is no corporate criminal law.

I say “realistic” because their assertion that corporate criminal law, does not in fact, exist is not widely acknowledged by their peers.

Most North Americans know that none of the executives on Wall Street who are responsible for the lies, deception, and phony investments they sold to millions of trusting investors were prosecuted and sent to jail.

“They got away with it,” was the common refrain during the 2008-2009 meltdown of Wall Street that took their economy down and into a deep recession that resulted in massive job loss and the looting of savings of tens of millions.

Disquiet at Davos and the Unsaid Fear of Failure – The First Shoots of a U.S. Ukraine Shift

from alethonews.com by Alastair Crooke at Strategic Culture Foundation | via thefreeonline

By Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation | May 30, 2022

Klaus Schwab, passionate for Ukraine, essentially configured the World Economic Forum (WEF) to showcase Zelensky and to leverage the argument that Russia should be kicked out of the civilised world.

Schwab’s target was the assembled crème de la crème of the world’s business leaders assembled there.

Zelensky pitched big: “We want more sanctions and more weapons”; “All trade with the aggressor should be stopped”; “All foreign business should leave Russia so that your brands are not associated with war crimes”, he said.

Sanctions must be all encompassing; values must matter.

Disquiet ran through the Davos set: The WEF is high-octane globalist, right? Yet this Schwab line suggests a de-coupling ‘on stilts’. It precisely reverses interconnectedness.

Plus, the western generals in charge are saying that this conflict may last not just years, but decades.

What will this signify for their markets in parts of the world that refuse action against Russia, the moneymen were wondering?

It is unlikely that this whiff of disorientation is what Schwab had intended.

Perhaps the latter was more aligned with Soros’ later intervention that a quick victory over Russia was needed to save the ‘Open Society’ and civilisation itself – and that this was intended as the WEF 2022 message.

Opinion | What Is America’s Strategy in Ukraine? – The New York Times

The Davos ‘greater disquiet’ emerged however, from an unexpected quarter. Just before the WEF began, the NY Times had run a piece from the editorial team urging Zelensky to negotiate with Russia.

It argued that such engagement implied making painful territorial sacrifices.

The piece attracted indignant and angry push-back in Europe and the West, possibly because – albeit couched as advice to Kiev – its target was evidently Washington and London (the arch belligerents).

Eric Cantor, a former whip in the U.S. House of Representatives (a legislator well versed on Iran sanctions), also at Davos, questioned whether the West would be able to maintain a united front in pursuit of such maximalist aims as Zelensky and his Military Intelligence Chief have demanded.

“We may not get the next vote”, Cantor opined (in wake of the $40 bn vote ostensibly earmarked for Ukraine).

Cantor said excluding Russia entirely would require secondary sanctions against other countries.

Solidarity cannot be blocked: Whole World opposes US blockade of Cuba.. Eng/Esp

from almacubanita translation thefreeonline shared with thanks

Despite the intense media campaign and also in other areas that is deployed against Cuba seeking to discredit it, numerous voices were heard last weekend in twenty countries calling for the elimination of the blockade, for respect for this Island and its sovereignty. .

From Miami, encouraged by #PuentesDeAmor, demands were heard in Coral Gables urging President Biden to expedite the announcements about the policy towards Cuba that the White House recently made.

“We want this to be the first step of many so that the sanctions that weigh on the Cuban people are lifted, once and for all,” specifies the permanent call that #PuentesDeAmor has launched, both on social networks and on various cities in the United States.

And if it is about the northern empire -because its government is one thing, its people is another- with an active presence in social networks, the reports also spoke of marches in Washington DC.

Voices in favor of Cuba were also heard loud and clear in other geographies: from Santa Cruz, in Bolivia; Milan, in Italy; Mexico City, Panama City, Bahamas, United Kingdom, Spain and Canada, among others.

From the Dominican Republic, social networks reported messages of solidarity towards Cuba generated from the capital of that country and in eight more cities of that nation.

‘Carbon footprint’ co-opted by fossil fuel companies to shift climate blame – Here’s how it can serve us again!

by Marcelle McManus at The Conversation/Phys.org via thefreeonline

Carbon footprints have a complex history.

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” according to a famous business mantra often attributed to management guru Peter Drucker.

This can help explain why carbon emissions are under more scrutiny than ever as we ramp up our efforts to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change.

For example, the “carbon footprint”—a way of measuring the amount of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon) emitted during a product’s creation, use and disposal—has become a household term.