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- Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
- G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
- Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- Neo-liberalism and the ongoing economic assault on ordinary Canadians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits -- including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich?
- Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
- Twenty-First-Century Fascism: Private Military Companies in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Globalization of trade and central banking have propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
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