Blog Entries by John Harrington
The New Evil Empire: Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have been around for over four decades, but only recently have made it as headliners in Davos, Switzerland, the winter playground for the world's corporate, government and political leaders who meet annually to carve up the world's resources. SWFs are large pools are capital controlled by...
Apple: Al's Gorey Mess
9 Comments | Posted February 6, 2008 | 04:59 PM (EST)
Al Gore, the former Vice President of the United States, and who is on the board of directors of Apple, Inc., won the Noble Peace Prize in 2007 for his book and film warning the world community of the dangers of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and overall potentially catastrophic climate...
Money and Democracy: It's Time to Vote With Your Dollars
Posted September 28, 2005 | 06:55 PM (EST)
Corporations have run amok. For evidence I refer you to the slew of major corporate scandals to have come down the pike in the past few years—Enron, WorldCom, and Halliburton (which is doing such a fine job overcharging the American taxpayer in Iraq that George Jr. awarded Halliburton a multi-million...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
** Update below: Nas delivers Fox petition to Stephen...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
2 Comments | Posted March 6, 2008 | 10:55 AM (EST)