Corporate Accountability

A New Spring Trend for Shareholders: Corporate Accountability

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Stand Up! Chicago, GM Detroit, Gm, Warren Buffet, Vikram Pandit, General Electric, The 99 % Power, Corporate Responsibility, GE's Federal Tax Refund, GE's Federal Taxes, GE Taxes, Corporate Accountability, Detroit Unemployment, GE Employment, Chicago News

GE's federal tax dodging has a significant impact on Chicago's neighborhoods

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Making Corporate Actions Visible

Ralph Gomory | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Shareholders, Corporate Accountability, Corporations, Business News

We are a nation of corporations, but our press and our conventional politics do not in any systematic way make visible the effect of corporate actions on the country. Let us as citizens make up for that significant omission.

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Supreme Court to Re-hear Kiobel v. Shell, Focus on Extraterritoriality

Katie Redford | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Alien Tort Statute, Human Rights, Corporate Accountability, Politics News

It looks like the Supreme Court may not decide the corporate liability issue this year after all.

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Corporate Crime and Punishment

Arvind Ganesan | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Nigeria, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporate Accountability, Human Rights Watch, Supreme Court, Corporate Personhood, Politics News

Should corporations have immunity for human rights abuses? Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that will decide whether corporations will be exempted from a crucial law that allows foreign victims of serious human rights abuses to sue them in US courts for civil damages.

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Grow up, Ron Paul

Carl Gibson | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Deregulation, New Hampshire Primary, Corporate Greed, Libertarian, Corporate Accountability, Austrian Economics, Ron Paul, Politics News

Ron Paul's every-individual-for-themselves rhetoric appeals to young, radical libertarians with simplistic viewpoints of authority, and an ignorance of why government exists in the first place.

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Chevron Found Guilty in Amazon Pollution Case

Mitch Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Politics, Contamination, Corporate Accountability, Environmentalism, Green, Indigenous People, Pollution, Big Oil, Water Pollution, Ecuador, Amazon, Chevron, Chevron Ecuador, Green News

As a result of Chevron's pollution, several indigenous groups in Ecuador have been decimated and more than 9,000 people are at significant risk of contracting cancer in the coming decades.

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Life in the Water

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mudslides, Apocalypse, Natural Disasters, Kurt Vonnegut, Pakistan, Flood, Life on Earth, Tsunamis, Media, Peace, Corporate Accountability, Cnn, Corporations, Water, Industry, Environment, Blizzards, Corporate Greenwashing, Green News

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com. We have a schizophren...

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Norway Complicit in Human Rights Abuses in Burma: New Report

Matthew Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socially Responsible Investments, Foreign Affairs, Burma, Democracy, Corporate Accountability, Investment Banks, Investing, Aung San Suu Kyi, Earthrights International, Human Rights, Norway, Myanmar, Environment, Southeast Asia, Csr, Oslo, Business News

If you're knowingly invested in companies contributing to human rights abuses, you're complicit. But like Norway, you can avoid that complicity by selling your shares in the problematic company.

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From Appalachia to the Amazon: The Fight Against Coal and Oil

Mitch Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Appalachia, Human Rights, Environmental Justice, Activism, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, Environmentalism, Corporate Accountability, Coal, Amazon, Green News

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Exposing the Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Bruce Nilles | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, Green, Finance, Corporate Accountability, Coal, Sierra Club, Home News

This post was co-written by Mark Kresowik, Corporate Accountability and Finance Representative for the Sierra Club.The idea of corporate responsibilit...

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Huff and Puff

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Justice & Democracy, Think Tanks, Manhattan Institute, Harry Reid, Lawyers, Corporate Accountability, Lobbyists, Politics News

I think all these neo-con "think tank" guys deserve our sympathy. Let's help them return from Bizarro World. In case you doubt my sincerity, I have a history of trying to "give to those who take."

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The Death and Rebirth of Accountability

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, Responsibility, Corporate Accountability, Accountability, Recession, Business Ethics, Politics News

How can there be a general ethos of solid and pervasive moral standards once more? We need good laws, and effective regulation. We need to restore an overall moral culture of accountability.

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Dear Mr. President: About Those Bonuses...

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Economic Collapse, Wall Street, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuse, Handing Out Bonuses, Economy, Recession Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Corporate Accountability, Business News

We in the business community are behind you 100% in your efforts to save our economy. But as you go, please be sensitive to the human cost that you may exact from those who can least afford to bear it.

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The Real Shame of Wall Street Bonuses

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Corporate Accountability, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Still Gave Out Bonuses, Recession Bonuses, Handing Out Bonuses, Economy, Financial Crisis, Business News

Obama's calling Wall Street bonuses "shameful" and citing Wall Street's actions as the "height of irresponsibility" may signal a significant shift in the government's tone towards corporate culture.

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Show Me the Money

Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Banks, Financial Crisis, Financial Bailout, Corporate Accountability, TARP Money, Economy, Business News

The fact that no banks receiving TARP funds provided the Associated Press with specific answers on what they spent the money on is a giant middle finger to the American taxpayer.

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Bush Administration Made Complete Immunity for Negligent Corporations a Top Priority

Les Weisbrod | Posted 05.25.2011

In the past three years federal agencies, have engaged in a campaign to hand corporations a 'get-out-of jail-free' pass when their products have harmed consumers.

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Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tort, Civil Justice, Lawsuits, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Corporate Accountability, Global Warming, Exxon Valdez, Business News

The direct precedential value of the Exxon decision will cast an ominous shadow over state and federal court decisions on punitive damages for years to come.

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