“Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the icons of corporate power subverted and mocked. There is, in short, a market for it. With commercialism able to overpower the traditional authority of religion, politics and schools, corporations have emerged a the natural targets for all sorts of free-floating rage and rebellion. The new ethos that culture jamming taps into is go-for-the-corporate-jugular.” ArtCultureCapitalismResistanceCorporationsCorporate ResistanceCulture Jamming Book:No Logo Source: No Logo
“[Trump] is also the personification of the merger of humans and corporations—a one man megabrand, whose wife and children are spin-off brands, with all the pathologies and conflicts of interest inherent in that. He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide license to impose one's will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the cusp of catastrophic warming. He is the product of a business culture that fetishizes "disruptors" who make their fortunes by flagrantly ignoring both laws and regularity standards. Most of all, he is the incarnation of a still-powerful free-market ideological project—one embraced by centrist parties as well as conservative ones—that wages war on everything public and commonly held, and imagines corporate CEOs and superheroes who will save humanity.” MoneyPowerTrumpCorporationsGlobal WarmingCeoFree MarketDonald TrumpConservativesCeos Book:No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Source: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.” PeopleHumansEnoughProblemSeemsTurnsForceSocialCommunityDealsDependsBalanceCurrentsDeterminedCorporationsGreat MenDiverseMechanicRottenBalance Of PowerHuman PowerSolar Power Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.” FactsHappensTreatsClimateClimate ChangeArguingAtmosphereCorporationsFree MarketSewersMarket Failure Author:Naomi Klein
“Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.” WarNamesEconomicArmyPoliceGreedIraqCorporationsGasZoneShockedCowboyFrontiersAcademyPipeRobbersTowelsContractorWar ZonesSewageCadetsSparkingRobber BaronPolice Academy Author:Naomi Klein
“protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.” WarGovernmentRaceAdvantagePaidIraqProfitCorporationsExpensesBootsProtectedEnteringCompetitorsTaxpayersReconstructionRacket Author:Naomi Klein
“The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.” PoliticsEconomicInspiredWaveTrackTriumphCorporationsActivistGlobalizationSavvyTechnoEconomic Globalization Author:Naomi Klein
“It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.” NeedsStatesHandsGovernmentCareSchoolFormWealthPayCompanyEconomyProductsDemandTaxesMarkUnionsWorkersOilInequalityHealth CareConsumersCorporationsPurityDecentWagesFree MarketPublic SchoolBrutalityIdeologicalFundamentalistPublic HealthCoexistOil Companies Author:Naomi Klein
