Bad Company - Ralph Nader Radio Hour Episode 633

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Meta Pays Up/Impeachment Symposium - Ralph Nader Radio Hour Episode 632

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In November 2025, UK Lawyers for Israel (#UKLFI) sent the Open University (#OU) a threat of legal action against the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in a current course. The following month, the OU sent UKLFI a letter making two commitments: to add a contextual note to the current course, and to not use the term again in future course materials. Since January 2026..

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vQkTPnYNKc-kpm9lLTzdw-TAcRm75o57VGziPimNEeNmGOoxH_mwixhcGvDwwMQbUmuzbfoEpnszGmT/pub?

#press #IndependentMedia #news #FreePalestine #UKuniversities #science #StateCrime #CorporateCrime

Open Letter to the Vice‑Chancellor of The Open University: Call for Urgent Compliance Action under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 regarding “Ancient Palestine”

“This little girl, just playing, doing her nutty stuff on an English beach. And that was the price.”

Yet there had been no outrage, few questions raised and no clear answers.

“Why weren’t people looking into this? It felt as if Heather didn’t matter. Over time, it felt as if she’d been forgotten.”

- The result, #Dirty #Business, a three-part #Channel4 factual #drama

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/18/the-death-of-heather-preen-how-eight-year-old-lost-her-life-amid-uk-sewage-crisis?utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#corruption #CorporateGreed #greed #TV #crimes #CorporateCrime

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The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid sewage crisis

In 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on a Devon beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking for someone to take responsibility

The Guardian

A good essay on the dearth of reporting and collation of corporate crime statistics in the U.S.:

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/corporate-crime-poorly-tracked-usa

#Crime #CorporateCrime

Corporate crime persists in the shadows

Unlike violent crimes, there are no comprehensive national statistics on the serious misconduct of companies. Some see a need for change.

Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews

Oil firms poison Oklahoma groundwater, regulators look away. Toxic waste erupts near homes, no fines, no shame. This is corporate greed protected by weak oversight. Profit wins, people pay. Clean water is a right, not a favour.
#Environment #Corruption #CorporateCrime #PublicHealth #Accountability

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-legislation-oil-gas-injection-wells-water-pollution-cleanup

New Bills Seek to Rein In Oil Companies’ Pollution of Oklahoma Groundwater

The legislation comes after The Frontier and ProPublica found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — near homes and farms and into drinking water sources.

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@RichRARobi i would say that's just as insane as banning fireworks altogether. the message is: let's blow up your hard-earned cash to enrich some chinese billionaires, spend more on trying to police this 'letting off steam so public rage won't be directed at the actual rulers' and then blame consequences on individuals & minority groups to distract more attention off the billionaire class & the system & divide ppl
they're always going to blame ppl for any harm. it's #CorporateCrime & #StateCrime
https://www.gulfchannels.com/355214/ القضاء اللبناني يوافق على إخلاء سبيل وزير سابق أوقف بتهم فساد #CorporateCrime #Corruption #Crime #judge #Judiciary(systemOfJustice) #JusticeAndRights #LawAndOrder #LB #Lebanon #news #Ticker #لبنان

Video en español

ENG: This video illustrates US military interventions in Latin America marked by coups, dictatorships, and wars that benefited US Corporate economic and geopolitical interests at the cost of millions of lives.

From Guatemala in 1954, where the CIA overthrew an elected president to protect the multinational United Fruit Company, to the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, the pattern repeats itself: popular or reformist governments replaced by military dictatorships backed by Washington to secure foreign investment and control of resources.

In Central America, support for the Contras in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran army—including death squads—prolonged wars that left tens of thousands dead and missing. In the Southern Hemisphere, support for authoritarian regimes and the coordination of Plan Condor institutionalized torture and political assassination on a continental scale.

These are just a few examples. For decades, the United States acted as if Latin America were its backyard, building its economic hegemony on the exploitation of citizens and leaving behind a history of violence, chaos, and suffering that still marks the region today.

Research sources: foreignpolicy.com, educacao.uol.com.br, foreignaffairs.com, Cato Institute, University of Ecuador, thenationalpolicy.com, El Pais, peacehistory-usfp.org, congress.gov,

#trump2 #TrumpDictatorship
#neocolonialism #authoritarianism
#corporategreed #corporatecrime
#LatinAmericanHistory #Interventionism #LatinAmerica #Imperialism #Venezuela #HumanRights #HistoricalMemory #InternationalPolitics