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Disney's cultural products rely on innocence as a rhetorical tool to legitimate dominant relations of power.

(Image: JR / Truthout) When corporations gained the protections that had been written for persons in the United States, a substantial shift began in who bears what …

(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the Department of Homeland Security's new Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), flies past the Empire State Building in New York during …

(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …

(Image: Viking) Most of us grow into our identities as easily as acorns do into oaks - rarely questioning, resisting or protesting those events that do not …

(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …

(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …

(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …

(Image: UC Press) Imagine what people would say if a band of hunters strung a mile of net between two immense all-terrain vehicles and dragged it at …