Corporate Greed

Letter to New Chevron CEO, John Watson: You Have an Opportunity to Resolve Human Tragedy in Ecuador

Han Shan | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Texaco, Corporations, Big Oil, Contamination, Ecuador, Oil, John Watson, Amazon Watch, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News

This letter references a confidential corporate memo that provides shocking insight into the reckless practices employed by Texaco (now Chevron) in Ecuador.

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AIG and the Season of Greed

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Greed, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Citigroup Bailout, Aig Bonuses, Business News

I'm expressing my shareholder outrage at the behavior of AIG's top executives, who now want raises. President Obama's compensation czar needs to take a ruler to these executives' knuckles.

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In the Public Interest: Rein in the Financial System That Failed

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Greed, In the Public Interest, Wall Street, Derivatives, Cfpa, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Ed Mierzwinski, Public Interest, Corporate Greed, Tarp, Politics News

In my 20 years in Washington, I've witnessed the deregulation of the financial marketplace and the ruin that goes along with it. I am determined not to let it happen again.

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Oil Giant Chevron Accused of "Extortion" on Capitol Hill

Han Shan | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Lobbying, Ecuador, Lobbyists, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Indigenous People, Amazon, Green News

Chevron is making an extraordinary lobbying effort to evade responsibility for its massive toxic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In solidarity with all communities where Big Oil puts profit ahead of people, we must say "no more."

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Buffett, Bonuses and Executive Greed

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, Warren Buffett, Corporate Greed, Alice Schroeder, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

Warren Buffett is such an important voice in the business world that, single-handedly, he could influence the way Corporate America is paid.

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From Wall Street to Neverland: The Year America Didn't Sleep

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Greed, Sleeplessness, Wall Street Crash, War on Terror, Britney Spears, Afghanistan, San Diego, Economy, Propofol, Economic Crisis, Neverland, Workaholics, Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson Neverland, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, US Economy, Sleep-Machismo, Cobra, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Insomnia, Machismo, Corporate Greed, Iraq, Heath Ledger, Health Care, National Sleep Foundation, Sleep, Living News

The public health burden of insomnia on the US is measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars. While we routinely cut calories, or cram in exercise, sleep has not even entered the conversational lexicon.

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Resetting CEO Reputation

Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Ceo Reputation, Reset Economy, World Economics Forum, Obama Economy, Businessweek, Obama Leadership, U.S. Economy, Corporate Responsibility, Economy, Corporate Greed, Business News

It is now time for CEOs to stand up and start rebuilding reputations, thereby resetting the path to future economic progress and moral authority.

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Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Capitalism, Wall Street, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bernard Madoff, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Corruption, Citibank, Bank Bailout, Stock Market, Corporations, Banking Crisis, Sec, Corporate Greed, Citigroup, Regulation, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Deregulation, New York, Criminal Justice System, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.

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Big Pharma's Crime Spree: Drug Makers Pushing Products For Unapproved Uses

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Alzheimer's Disease, Unapproved Uses, Doj, Drug Marketers, Criminal Lawsuit, Eli Lilly, Regulation, Fda, The Fed, Lawsuit, Pharma, Nimh, Jama, Department of Justice, Kickbacks, Federal Reserve, Fed, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Warner Lambert, Marketing, Warner-Lambert, Neurontin, Thalidomide, Depression, Bankruptcy, Off-Label Promotion, Zyprexa, Bextra, Suicide, Lilly Pfizer, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Felonies, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Bristol Myers Squibb, Morning Sickness, Drug Regulation, Profits, Health, Drug Sales, Corporate Greed, Atom Strategic Consulting, Birth Defects, Zyvox, Business News

Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 billion in penalties after promoting drugs for uses not approved by the FDA. This u...

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Too Big To Fail - Too Big To Exist

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Corporate Greed, Too Big to Fail, Bernie Sanders, Financial Crisis, Business News

If any of the four largest financial institutions were to get into major trouble again, taxpayers would be on the hook for another massive bailout. We cannot let that happen.

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Chevron's Man in Ecuador: Felon, Drug-Trafficker, and Liar, Oh My!

Han Shan | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Chevron, Green News, Oil, Corporate Greed, Indigenous People, Chevron Ecuador, Lawsuit, Amazon, Corruption, Big Oil, Corporations, Green News

To defend itself in a major environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, it appears that American oil giant Chevron is employing methods -- and people -- that are as dirty as the toxic waste pits it left scattered across the rainforest floor.

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New Coke Mini - Now With 36% Less Cancerous Death!

Mark Morford | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Coca-Cola, Type 2 Diabetes, Health, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Marketing, Diabetes, Coke, Obesity, Corporate Greed, Satire, Comedy News

In an unselfish effort to help you reduce -- but not eliminate because that would be un-American and possibly communist -- your intake of our sugary poisons, we are introducing a brand-new product.

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Roger and Me, Barbara Boxer, Fair Elections Now Act, Houses, Lobbyists, Vermont, Connecticut, Jobs, Fahrenheit 9/11, Dianne Feinstein, Contributors, Arizona, California, Capitalism: A Love Story, New Mexico, New Jersey, Clean Money, Maine, Senator Barbara Boxer, iPhone App, Foreclosure, Congressman Henry Waxman, North Carolina, California Fair Elections, Participatory Democracy, S. 752, H.R. 1826, Campaign Finance, Congress, Democracy, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Sicko, Insurers, Corporations, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Corporate Greed, Medical Treatment, Iphone, Banks, Michael Moore, Republicans, Senate, Campaign Finance Reform, Healthcare, Fena, Hardball, Anderson Cooper, Msnbc, Chris Matthews, Cnn, Politics News

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Pardon the Interruption, But...

Steven Weber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, American Greed, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Animal Farm, Business News

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

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Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: International Journalism, Digital Media, Twitter, Corporate Globalization, Climate Lobby, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Environment, Globalization, New Media, Investigative Journalism, Media, Corporate Greed, International Reporting, Facebook, Investigative Reporting, Green News

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

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The Shiny Storefront on a Hill

Steven Weber | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Corporations, Politics News

What is so wrong with the things we always depended on to lead a healthy existence in our democratic society?

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Perfect Imperfection -- A Vision of a Translucent World

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Global Revolution, Global Domination, Opportunity, Breakdown of Civilization, Optimism, Corporate Greed, Hitler, Paradigm, Intention, VáClav Havel, Inequality, Stalin, James Bond, Genghis Khan, Impact News

The threat to our world's stability comes from a collective expression of greed, embodied by global corporations, which put profit before integrity. Will you do something about it?

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Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story Will Find a Ready Audience

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Greed, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Financial Crisis, Movie, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Business News

Moore is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values, and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings.

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Chevron's 'Dirty Tricks Operation' in the Amazon

Han Shan | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Corruption, Video, Corporations, Big Oil, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Film, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News

Unfortunately for Chevron, the truth has a way of bubbling to the surface, like crude in the steamy jungles of Ecuador.  

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CRUDE: The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Han Shan | Posted 09.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Corporations, Big Oil, Oil, Chevron, Corporate Greed, Film, Indigenous People, Lawsuit, Amazon, Green News

This documentary chronicles the epic legal battle to hold Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Illinois Family Sells Company, Gives 6.6 Million Dollars In Bonuses (VIDEO)

Toan Lam | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Spungen, Generosity, goinspirego.com, Corporate Responsibility, Toan Lam, Family Gives Big Bonuses, Go Inspire Go, Ariannahuffington, Arianna Huffington, Corporate Corruption, Philanthropy, Corporate Greed, Toanlam, Chicago Family Sells Company Gives Big Bonuses, Laurence and Florence Spungen Foundation, spungenfamilyfoundation.org, Living News

Laurence and Florence Spungen and their four children sold their PEER Bearing company last fall and gave the money to employees as bonuses (some bonuses were six figures) based on years of service.

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Healing America (and What One Man Is Doing)

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Delmark Goldfarb, Twitter, Mass Hysteria, Corporate America, Balance the Bucks Concert, Health Care Reform, Portland Oregon, Neil Young, James Morgan, Corporate Greed, Blues, Barack Obama, Politics News

A man I've come to know a bit is a blues musician named Delmark Goldfarb from Portland, Oregon. He's producing a concert titled "Balance the Bucks", a rally against greed.

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Senator Sanders Unfiltered: My New Online Show from Brave New Films

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 09.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Brave New Films, Corporate Greed, Unfiltered, Bernie Sanders, Home News

I hope you'll join me for my new show, Senator Sanders Unfiltered, produced by Brave New Films. Follow my show on Twitter at SandersShow, join my Fac...

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New York's Consumerism

Reverend Billy | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Texas Oil, Monetization, American Consumerism, Consumer Confidence, Consumerism, Corporate America, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Apartments, American Culture, Corporate Greed, Consumer Spending, 1950s, New York City, New York News

Consumerism is what they call a "totalizing system." It expands outward across the landscape and simultaneously into the individual's psyche. It must expand.

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A Reflection on Ayn Rand and Consumer Protection

Jim Randel | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Ayn Rand, Business News

When corporations are doing what they should do -- maximize profits -- they have no vision for the consumer.

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