While this issue is a crucial one for all of us, the bigger picture of the TPP is the erosion of power held by the people who vote for these governments and the expansion of control by the few at the top of the food chain.
Capitalism and Big Business articles on Democracy Chronicles
This capitalism section features news on how the world's preeminent economic system and the big business interests behind it relate to democracy, particularly free and fair elections. Other systems are also covered at Democracy Chronicles. See our articles on Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Socialism.
The Politics of Medicalization
There is a continuous expansion of medical jurisdiction on life as conditions and behaviors are medicalized. That is, as medicine is commodified, medicalization involves profit-making medical marketing
FIFA vs International Bank Scandals
Arresting members of a multinational sports corporation will not change the way the corporatocracy exploits the people of the world and damages the future for all of us.
Democratic Socialists of America on Democratic Socialism
How Bernie Sanders’ campaign has brought concept of Democratic Socialism to national attention
Greece: A Prophecy Fulfilled?
Other nations, including the US, should take a lesson from Greece’s precarious circumstances. This situation is not an accident, and the outcome is not likely to be favorable to the people who should matter the most.
VIDEO: Chris Hedges and Cornel West at the New School
Chris Hedges has long described the demise of our society. Together the two speakers investigated the social/psychological factors that bring rise to revolution, rebellion and resistance.
Innovation Takes All of Us
Take action; don’t let yourself off the hook. You have more power than you may realize and more power than the Corporatocracy wants you to believe you have. Let’s use our power together to innovate, to shift the message and let the world know that it’s not ok to pursue profits over people
Private Wall Street Insiders Are Making Government Money
Set up like a talk-show, Ben Bernanke, former head of the Federal Reserve bank, and Timothy Geithner, former Treasury Secretary during the crash of 2008, were in the middle of the Q&A portion of the event when I arrived
The New Story: Interbeing
It is time to stop thinking about separation, about differences, and about the things that keep us apart. Let’s change the story of separation that has dominated human philosophies for far too long into a story of solidarity.
The Corporatocracy and Us
We need to empower ourselves and responsible organizations to create a Life Economy, where corporations are required to serve a public interest, rather than the private greed of the few who sit in the feudal castles of modern empire.