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Topic: Corporate colonialism

	03.22.thicke
		My Webster's dictionary defines colonialism as "The system or policy by which a nation seeks to extend or retain its authority over other peoples or territories." Such political colonialism of one nation over another fell by the wayside in the 20th century.
		Corporate colonialism requires no armies, weapons, or even threats of violence to reap all the benefits of a colonial power.
		Nowhere are the disastrous consequences of corporate colonialism felt more than in global food trade.
	www.populist.com /03.22.thicke.html (908 words)

	biblio3.html
		Because colonial officials saw "great agricultural potential" in East Africa, they were extremely concerned with soil conservation (although game reserves and parks were also an essential area of conservation policy).
		The author argues that the instituting of the U.S. parks ideology of isolationist management during the colonial period completely disregarded social, cultural, and political systems in place in Africa and created numerous land-use conflicts and forms of land degradation inside and outside of the parks.
		Marekia makes the important point (often overlooked by analyses) that white colonial officials, fearing the native resentments of conservation which denied them access to resources, actively sought to set up a postcolonial group of elitist rulers that catered to their needs and ideologies (i.e.
	www.lclark.edu /~soan/biblio3.html (1944 words)

	Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective
		Colonialism is in fact a kind of imperialism with settlement in foreign territories (Abercrombie, Hills, and Turner 1988:120).
		In this way, economic and strategic exploitation were included in the concept of "colonialism." Colonialism, as formulated by Frank (1978:189 ff), may be regarded as a necessary precondition for capitalism, by channeling the accumulation of capital and by preventing the development of an autonomous economy within the controlled territories.
		Therefore, it may be somewhat difficult to distinguish between imperialism and colonialism, but "colony" was, since Classical times, associated with settlement of a populated area outside one's own territory such that the colony might be distinguished from the indigenous population of the region.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /HistoryCulture/petersen.html (6074 words)

	The Corporate State
		And better still (for the corporations anyway) funding for these massively profitable 'enterprises' is taken by force from the people at large (in taxes) and transferred directly (by their tame and 'sponsored' governments) to the corporate coffers of the arms manufacturers, what a scam...
		Biasing the public in ways that favour corporate interests, suppressing any news that does not, glorifying the power of 'bosses', highlighting helpful pronouncements by 'tame' politicians, are all methods used to entrench the economic delusions behind 'capitalists' and their arch-institution the mega-corporation, that worldwide superpower of commerce.
		Corporate law thus casts ethical and social concerns as irrelevant, or as stumbling blocks to the corporation’s fundamental mandate.
	www.calresco.org /lucas/state.htm (6120 words)

	Goldsmith: Development as colonialism.
		Slowly as traditional society disintegrated under the impact of colonialism and the spread of Western values, as the subsistence economy was replaced by the market economy on which the exploding urban population grew increasingly dependent - the task of maintaining the optimum conditions for western trade and penetration became correspondingly easier.
		In other words, formal colonialism came to anend not because the colonial powers had decided to forego the economic advantages it provided but because, in the new conditions, these could now largely be obtained by more politically acceptable and at the same time, as we shall see, more effective methods.
		In the same way that colonies were once forced to buy their manufactured goods from the country that had colonised them, aid recipients must spend much of the money that is supposed to relieve their poverty and malnutrition, on irrelevant manufactured goods that are produced by the donor countries.
	www.edwardgoldsmith.com /page49.html (5043 words)

	Corporate Hog Production: The Colonization of Rural America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		After the corporations are gone, there is no reason to believe that rural Americans will be any less resentful of their previous “corporate masters” than are indigenous people of previously colonized nations of their previous “political masters.” As in earlier times, the new 21
		When the corporations are gone, they will resent the loss of rural culture, rural values, and their previous sense of connectedness to place.
		has against the threat of corporate colonization is the knowledge of what is happening to their communities, why it is happening, and what the consequences are of their doing nothing to stop it.
	www.ssu.missouri.edu /faculty/JIkerd/papers/HogColonalism.htm (2027 words)

	Guaranteeing Corporate Rights Korten
		The needs of the world's largest corporations are now represented by a global body with legislative and judicial powers that is committed to ensuring their rights against the intrusions of democratic governments and the people to whom those governments are accountable.
		Of the corporate members, all but General Motors were represented by either the chairman of the board or the president-in most instances, whichever of these officers functioned as chief executive officer (CEO).
		As a consequence, the largest transnational corporations and the global financial system have assumed ever greater power over the conduct of human affairs in the pursuit of interests that are increasingly at odds with the human interest.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Korten/GuaranCorpRights_WCRW.html (2967 words)

	Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, a corporation files articles of incorporation with the government, laying out the general nature of the corporation, the amount of stock it is authorized to issue, and the names and addresses of directors.
		If a corporation operates outside its home state, it is often required to register with other governments as a foreign corporation, and is almost always subject to laws of its host state pertaining to employment, crimes, contracts, civil actions, and the like.
		The oldest corporation in the United States, and the oldest in North America, is the President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation), chartered in 1650.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corporate (4571 words)

	Resurgence: Sep Oct 96 Jerry Mander - CORPORATE COLONIALISM
		Globalization of the economy is a new kind of corporate colonialism, visited upon poor countries and the poor in rich countries.
		Some publications have carried stories about "corporate greed" as expressed by the firing of thousands of workers while corporate profits soared and top executive salaries were being raised to unheard-of levels.
		Even these stories, however, rarely mentioned the crucial point that the new corporate restructuring is directly hooked to the imperatives of globalization and that it is happening all over the world.
	resurgence.gn.apc.org /articles/mander.htm (2004 words)

	section3.html
		colonialism or imperialism) is literally controlled by the efforts of a small group of private financial institutional decision makers.
		It is corporate colonialism that enforces total financial invasion and total surrender of local sovereignty.
		The "inexpensive" U.S. corn freely imported is in truth heavily subsidized by farming practices that cause depleted topsoils, depleted and poisoned aquifers; practices that use herbicides and pesticides, poisoning water, soil, plants, animals, as well as humans; and practices that consume tremendous quantities of dwindling reserves of oil.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/slope/section3.html (1878 words)

	Corporate Accountability at the UN * Reports * ToBI
		Not surprisingly, corporations continue to be one of the main forces underlying the globalization of unsustainability.
		This surrender by government of their responsibility to people and planet can be heard in the official chorus of calls for more deregulation and free trade, in providing more corporate rights and "breaking the barriers" of communities trying to protect themselves from what amounts to corporate colonialism.
		The campaign to ensure that corporations are accountable to society is also a campaign to make sure governments are accountable to their people.
	isforum.org /tobi/reports/ca-un.aspx (1886 words)

	Awakened Civil Society D Korten
		Each day, more people are saying no to the forces of corporate colonialism, reclaiming their spaces, taking back responsibility for their lives, and working to create real-world alternatives to the myths and illusions of economic globalization.
		Yet we find with increasing frequency that the most heroic actions to save the environment are being taken by the poor, who know the costs of allowing the plunder of the natural resources upon which their existence depends.
		People are encouraged to reflect on the act of befriending and improving the life of a hungry person as both a political and a spiritual experience and as a source of insight into the source of the dysfunctions of Brazilian society.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Korten/AwakenedSociety_WCRW.html (4348 words)

	portland imc - 2003.12.10 - Howard Dean - The Mysterious Stranger
		Invisible colonialism, however, convinces you that serfdom is your destiny and impotency your nature; it convinces you that it's not possible to speak, not possible to act, not possible to exist."
		Corporate colonialism as funneled through Democrats is no better than corporate colonialism funneled through Republicans -- the two camps merely have different superficial approaches.
		We must resist colonialism (corporate globalization, fascism, whatever name you give it) in all its forms, whether blatant or invisible.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/12/276235.shtml (1860 words)

	Guinness Is Not Irish, printer friendly
		From the original brewer, Arthur Guinness, to the current owner, the Diageo Corporate group, to the policies that have affected the workforce, it is quite clear that Guinness is not, nor has it ever been, Irish.
		The sheriff was advised to dispatch two men to the brewery, while corporation workers shut off the supply.
		Workers at the brewery are less likely to be oppressed due to their religious beliefs, but now face being victims of a rationalization plan.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Aug2003/dunnepr0803.html (2485 words)

	Corporate Livestock Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Nowhere is the industrialization more evident, in all of its dimensions and all of its ugliness, than in large-scale, confinement animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and in the corporations which control and promote them.
		– corporate livestock production is but a symptom of a far more serious problem.
		Historically, a colony has been defined as a territory, acquired by conquest or settlement, over which a people or government, previously alien to that territory, has imposed outside control.
	www.ssu.missouri.edu /Faculty/JIkerd/papers/SaskatoonCorpHogs.htm (3227 words)

	CorpWatch : The Corporate Planet
		There are also a series of fact sheets, leaked corporate documents and profiles of both the European Union and Japan Inc..
		Arguing that transnational misdeeds can be overcome, Karliner recounts empowering stories of communities confronting the ill effects of corporate colonialism to create their own "grassroots globalization " movements.
		Thoughtful analysis of globalization 's ecological and social impacts and of efforts by "corporate environmentalists" to control how problems and solutions are defined.With ecological sustainability, social justice, and democratic participation as his guiding principles, Karliner celebrates "grassroots globalization "--citizens demanding responsible environmental behavior from global corporations--becoming stronger and more articulate around the world.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=963 (692 words)

	A journal of protest and dissent
		Globalisation is a specific economic strategy developed by established industrialised countries and transnational corporations to control access to, and exploitation of, the world's markets.
		Because the primary beneficiaries of global economics are the transnational corporations and their shareholders, it is a strategy that works well for profits, but not for people.
		In their quest for market dominance they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to sweep aside smaller local competitors and to trample underfoot the social and environmental needs of whole countries.
	lark.phoblacht.net /newcolonial.html (977 words)

	Public Lands News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Outside interests are using Alaska as a colonial resource extraction area.
		Corporations out to make the highest profit seem to think pollution costs can be offset to the public.
		Instead of acting like good corporate citizens and properly handling their toxic mine waste, the company put forward a plan to creatively re-name Slate Lake into a "treatment facility." The same could be done for Auke Lake or the Mendenhall Wetlands if an ore body were located nearby.
	www.akcenter.org /events/news_stories/mining_09_20_05.html (2696 words)

	Baywood.com
		Since the Australian Standard 8003-2003 on Corporate Social Responsibility was published, occupational safety and health has been firmly placed in the portfolio of corporate social responsibility obligations.
		Corporate Social Responsibility Failures in the Oil Industry is academic in style and aimed at safety specialists.
		As the editors say in their afterword: the oil corporations require "neither rule of law, democracy, nor respect for individual rights to survive and prosper".
	www.baywood.com /books/previewbook.asp?id=0-89503-293-7 (865 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; May 7, 2005
		The reason for this attack on the state is the regulatory authority that the state exercises on behalf of its citizens, especially in a democratic dispensation.
		A common example of suspension of public interest rules, supported by corporations and the WTO is that of export processing zones where, among other things, labour is not protected even by the laws that are applicable to the rest of the country.
		The effect of corporate colonialism is being felt even in the rich and industrialized countries where democratic institutions, despite corporate machinations, remain strong and effective.
	www.dawn.com /2005/05/07/op.htm (4172 words)

	DECEMBER 98 - CORPORATE BULLIES
		Corporate firms lobbying to cripple the Superfund law outnumber environmental groups seeking to defend it by 30 to one.
		If the corporation didn't do what the people said, their charters were revoked.
		In a fundamental respect, the corporation was a public institution.
	www.multinationalmonitor.org /mm1998/98dec/corporate.html (6407 words)

	Thousands Rise Up Against New Era of Corporate Colonialism : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		They will call for an end to the new era of corporate colonialism driven by the forces of the free market and imposed on indigenous communities throughout the Americas.
		In Panama, indigenous activists are marching from Costa Rica to Panama City, a distance of over 200 miles, to protest the ecological destruction caused by mining on their lands.
		In Managua, Nicaragua, actions against the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will expose their role as a corporate welfare institution with activists their arguing that the IDB has never been interested in supporting grassroots initiatives for economic, environmental and social justice.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1535321 (444 words)

	David Korten: When Corporations Rule the World
		Its focus upon corporations is necessary, because the rising power of corporations is responsible for the decline of democracy and the well-being of people in the global society.
		The corporate charter is a social invention created to aggregate private financial resources in the service of a public purpose.
		Less widely recognized is the tendency of corporations, as they grow in size and power, to develop their own institutional agendas aligned with imperatives inherent in their nature and structure that are not wholly under the control even of the people who own and manage them" (53).
	it.stlawu.edu /~quack/reviews/korten.htm (673 words)

	Tropical medicine: A brittle tool of the new imperialism
		This week's Lancet editorial is strongly critical of the way that tropical medicine remains structured on outdated colonial lines and calls for the discipline to 'resist contemporary imperialistic forces that hide under the folded veils of counterterrorism and corporate colonialism'.
		THE LANCET charges tropical medicine with rewriting its history to suggest that it is 'an emblem of social enlightenment, individual sacrifice, and scientific altruism', whereas it has instead 'accepted prevailing policies of colonialism, militarism, and violence'.
		Four priorities are outlined: 'First, there must be a commitment to creating in-country capacity, notably a human capacity that can determine for itself problems to be addressed instead of having a westernised impression of those problems imposed from outside.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-04/l-tma033104.php (499 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Globalism ain't what it used to be
		However, not all colonialism was state-run; in fact, most of Britain's empire was not conquered or even ruled by the state for the first hundred years, and they were the most successful colonialists of the time.
		Their empire was mostly formed by the British East India Company, a private corporation that had its own navy, and its own army.
		They were militarized monopolies that did not believe in capitalism as we know it, they were vestages of the Medieval gild which controled all aspects of life, indeed they went to war against states as independent powers and had private navys and armies to protect their market turf.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/001071.html (1997 words)

	portland imc - 2001.07.30 - PNWER: Corporate Colony or Regional Autonomy?
		Chapters 6- 8 of Mittleman's book showed how the globalization of free-market capitalism is actually primarily facilitated by regional rather than "global" entities per se; this being a neccesity to integrate the cooperation of global, macroregional, subregional, and microregional entities in order to maximize profits.
		In other words, the global elites are once again chopping up the world into "economic regions" in order to facilitate the new corporate colonialism every region in the world is now experiencing, in a way very similar as they did in the classical colonialism of the recent past.
		In the confrontation at Whistler, veterans of North American battles against mammoth organizations such as NAFTA, APEC, WTO, and FTAA affirmed their commitment to fight not only the corporate colonization of the far off hyper-exploited regions of the world, but also of the region in which we live, that of Cascadia as well.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2001/07/2614.shtml (2070 words)

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