The Declaration of Interest statement that was originally published with the papers:
- Failed to disclose that at least two panelists who authored the review worked as consultants for, and were directly paid by, Monsanto for their work on the paper;
- Failed to disclose that at least one Monsanto employee extensively edited the manuscript and was adamant about retaining inflammatory language critical of the IARC assessment — against some of the authors’ wishes; the disclosure falsely stated that no Monsanto employee reviewed the manuscript.
As the WSWS has warned, the 2018 election campaign marks a new stage in the growing influence of the military-intelligence apparatus in American life. The Democratic Party is not a lesser evil, compared to Trump and the Republicans. If Trump represents the danger of authoritarian rule based on appeals to racism, anti-immigrant bigotry, and police violence, the Democrats are paving the way to a regime in which all political dissent will be branded the product of “Russian meddling” and anyone to the left of the Democratic Party will be censored and suppressed.
A train going on our commuter line - in the opposite direction.
For example, a common refrain among the intersectionalist left is that Trump won the 2016 election due to the racism of white people, working-class whites in particular, and therefore the set we call working-class whites has nothing to bring to the intersection, so to speak. It can be ignored as a potential ally in the struggle against neoliberalism. However, the set of all working-class white people is not the same as what we find at the intersection of the set of working-class white people and the set of racists. By conflating the two sets, the intersectionalists are
1) excluding a large set of people that have been crushed by neoliberalism andThe question is: Why is this idea of intersectionality, which is logically flawed on its very face, so prevalent among various leftist factions and “progressives”? There are two likely possibilities, in my view:
2) committing themselves to a much diminished coalition.
1) The Left is being deliberately fractured by government and corporate policies or
2) The Left is exhibiting a sort of schizophrenic break with reality induced by both a perpetual inability to obtain economic and social relief from neoliberalism and the election of Donald Trump.
The US military defeats are products of a fatal flaw: imperial planners cannot successfully replace indigenous people with colonial rulers and their local look-alikes.
Wars are not won by high tech weapons directed by absentee officials divorced from the people: they do not share their sense of peace and justice.
Exploited people informed by a spirit of communal resistance and self-sacrifice have demonstrated greater cohesion then rotating soldiers eager to return home and mercenary soldiers with dollar signs in their eyes.
The lessons of lost wars have not been learned by those who preach the power of the military–industrial complex, which makes, sells and profits from weapons but lack the mass of humanity with lesser arms but with great conviction who have demonstrated their capacity to defeat imperial armies.
| Contributor | Total |
|---|---|
| Club for Growth | $54,028 |
| Moneytree Inc | $21,600 |
| Wells Fargo | $18,950 |
| Ignition Partners | $16,200 |
| American Bankers Assn | $12,800 |
| Kemper Development | $12,050 |
| Diamond Technology Innovations | $11,800 |
| Trf Pacific LLC | $11,643 |
| Koelsch Senior Communities | $11,550 |
| Janicki Industries | $11,380 |
| Microsoft Corp | $11,200 |
| Acorn Ventures | $10,800 |
| AIMCO | $10,800 |
| Alyeska Ocean Inc | $10,800 |
| Car Wash Enterprises | $10,800 |
| Chateau Plateau Winery | $10,800 |
| Coast Equity Real Estate | $10,800 |
| Coast Real Estate | $10,800 |
| Coscto | $10,800 |
| Emerald Services | $10,800 |
| Fisher Investments | $10,800 |
| KG Investment Management LLC | $10,800 |
| Lytle Enterprises | $10,800 |
| Metier Construction | $10,800 |
| Nelson Irrigation | $10,800 |
| Nierenberg Investment Management | $10,800 |
| Nuprecon LP | $10,800 |
| Sabey Corp | $10,800 |
| Sundquist Homes | $10,800 |
| Contributor | Total |
|---|---|
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | $34,285 |
| Microsoft Corp | $24,805 |
| University of Washington | $24,401 |
| Seattle Genetics | $18,950 |
| Amazon.com | $17,150 |
| Top Ten Toys | $16,200 |
| EMILY's List | $13,600 |
| Omnicom Group | $12,155 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | $10,800 |
| Microbiologist | $10,800 |
| Farstar Ventures | $8,100 |
| Allegro Pediatrics | $7,500 |
| Costco Wholesale | $7,400 |
| Valve Corp | $6,463 |
| Intellectual Ventures LLC | $6,400 |
| Rustic Canyon Partners | $6,400 |
| EmblemHealth Inc | $5,800 |
| Allbee Romein | $5,400 |
| Cooper House | $5,400 |
| Global Diversity Crop Trust | $5,400 |
| Northwest School | $5,400 |
| Overlake Internal Medicine | $5,400 |
| Paloma Partners | $5,400 |
| Providence St Joseph Health | $5,400 |
| Solil Management | $5,400 |
| Stellman's College | $5,400 |
| Tecton Smp | $5,400 |
| Telstra Corp | $5,400 |
| University of California | $5,400 |
| Urban Renaissance Group | $5,400 |
| Zumiez Inc |
The gig economy is being driven by those who seek to cut costs, and this begins and ends with their ability to wiggle out of being considered “employers” in any sense. What will it take for those of us who freelance and are at the mercy of the market forces where fees are being driven down in the current economic climate? We either must band together and agree to fees that we simply will not dip below or we must create a formal unionization.
Behind the scenes, the strategy of surveillance capitalism is to continue building an enormous ecosystem backed by rich investors and heavy hitters across industries – chip fabs, cloud server farms, specialized hardware, and many thousands of companies to provide data services. Taken together, they are too big to fail. Providing genuine, simple privacy now means incinerating the Big Data surveillance industry.
The United States today qualifies as a plutocracy – on a number of grounds. Let’s look at some striking bits of evidence. Gross income redistribution upwards in the hierarchy has been a feature of American society for the past decades. The familiar statistics tell us that nearly 80 percent of the national wealth generated since 1973 has gone to the upper 2 percent and 65 percent to the upper 1 per cent. Estimates for the rise in real income for salaried workers over the past 40 years range from 20 percent to 28 percent. In that period, real GDP has risen by 110 percent – it has more than doubled.
To put it somewhat differently, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the top earning 1 percent of households gained about 8 times more than those in the 60 percentile after federal taxes and income transfers between 1979 and 2007 and 10 times those in lower percentiles.
In short, the overwhelming fraction of all the wealth created over two generations has gone to those at the very top of the income pyramid.
