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marmar

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Wed Nov 13, 2013, 09:13 PM Nov 2013

The Real Web of America's Economic Life


The Real Web of America's Economic Life

Wednesday, 13 November 2013 14:30
By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed


There isn't much diversity in America's economic web of life.

An image that was first posted on Reddit last year, and was recently grabbed by the folks over at PolicyMic, shows just how out-of-control corporate America has become in the years since Ronald Reagan stopped enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Right now, there are 10 giant corporations that control, either directly or indirectly, virtually everything we buy.

These corporations are Kraft, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, Proctor and Gamble, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson.

These 10 corporations in turn own, market, or distribute what people think of as the products of hundreds of other companies. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20025-the-real-web-of-americas-economic-life



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The Real Web of America's Economic Life (Original Post) marmar Nov 2013 OP
Gotta love all those "competing brands" in the supermarket Warpy Nov 2013 #1

Warpy

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1. Gotta love all those "competing brands" in the supermarket
Wed Nov 13, 2013, 09:25 PM
Nov 2013

that are all the same shitty products put out by the same shitty conglomerate.

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