Read for Thursday October 23:
Guardian
story on intense corporate influence on Chilean policy
Recommended:
Chart
of earnings 1820-2001 (to see the historic decline of wages 1970s-present)
Executive
Pay Rises While Workers Stagnate Executive Pay Watch site
Distributing
the booty -- wealth distribution in
the United States, graphically: examples: the bottom 40% of the population has
just 1% of total wealth. The richest 10% of the population - about 10 million
households - owned 84% of the stock and 90% of the bonds held by individuals
(including that held indirectly through mutual funds). The democratization of
ownership supposedly brought about by mutual funds has a long way to go. (these
10 million are more likely to vote—guess why?)
The Widening
Income Gulf from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Excellent
graphs
Concession
Bargaining and the Decline of Industrial Unionism in the 1980s (great deal
of information on how giving wage cuts did not save jobs), and on how the
Democratic Party forced the concessions to start, then Reagan escalated with
PATCO)
Taxpayers
have financed the erosion of jobs through OPIC
How Bretton
Woods Reordered the World
Death Squads and
Capitalist development CIA intervention in Brazil
Brazil
and the struggle against neoliberalism
CIA
acknowledgement (limited) of what it did in Chile and ties to repressive
Pinochet regime
Guardian
story on intense corporate influence on Chilean policy –how Pepsi corporate
officials helped to ensure the CIA coup in Chile that brought a dictator to
power
Ahttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/South_America/Lessons_Catastrophe_Chile.html
For more on what we now know overthrow the democratically elected government of Allende
in Chile http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm
Documents that
implicate the CIA in the killing of American citizen Charles Horman Horman’s story is featured in the 1980s film,
“Missing” (available for rental in many video stores); in addition, see these
documents released in June 2000—Documents from
2000 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/South_America/Lessons_Catastrophe_Chile.html
The
case for Kissinger as a War Criminal
Kissinger, Pinochet and history –
Kissinger’s
attempts to cover up what he really did
Norman Solomon on the media
and lack of historical memory on Kissinger