spaffy-jimble:

chamerionwrites:

notsoterriblymisanthropic:

violaslayvis:

comcastkills:

a lot of people i’ve interacted with still think the whole chiquita death squads thing was only a rumor so I wanted to point out that they owned up to it and got fined.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/March/07_nsd_161.html

so a corporation literally funded right wing terrorists to kill innocent people and only got fined. $25 million. chiquita has annual revenues of $3 billion. that should really have been a wake up call to anyone thinking corporations are treated unfairly, but it wasn’t. this is capitalism.

Pepsi is also directly responsible for the coup of Allende. Allende was actually supposed to win the 1963 election, but was unable to bc corporations like Pepsi poured millions into his opponent’s campaign. In return, his opponent promised to protect their investments. In 1970, when Allende finally won, the CEO of PepsiCo explicitly demanded President Nixon stage a coup against Allende bc as a socialist, he would threaten Pepsi’s and other foreign investments. Pressured by these corporations, Nixon eventually took action https://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbusiness.theobserver

Possibly my all-time favourite ever book review is Barrett Brown’s review of the first 33 pages of Niall Ferguson’s terrible biography of Henry Kissinger, where Brown manages to completely destroy Ferguson while writing from a prison cell… anyway, one of the points Brown makes in that is that Ferguson smears Howard Zinn, a dead man who can’t defend himself, as being a crazy conspiracy theorist for alledging that ITT was involved in the coup against Allende, when in fact Zinn was just reporting on historically documented fact.

I expect my followers are very tired of hearing me point this out, but Chiquita Brands International is United Fruit Company.

United Fruit Company of Pablo-Neruda poem infamy. United Fruit Company of the-Banana-Massacre infamy. United Fruit Company of bribing-the-Honduran-president-$2.5-million-to-lower-the-tax-on-banana-exports-and-inspiring-Congress-to-create-the-Foreign-Corrupt-Practices-Act (aka Bananagate) infamy. United Fruit Company of 1954-Guatemalan-coup (while the head of the CIA – Allen Dulles – sat on United Fruit’s board of directors, and the Secretary of State – his brother, John Foster Dulles – had long represented United through his law firm, and the ambassador to the UN – Henry Cabot Lodge – owned a pile of United Fruit Co stock, and their public relations lobbyist – Ed Whitman – was married to Eisenhower’s private secretary) followed-by-forty-years-of-civil-war-and-genocide infamy. United Fruit Company of literally-responsible-for-inspiring-the-term “banana-republic” infamy. THAT United Fruit Company.

Of course they funded death squads.

Capitalism Kills