Corporate Power

The Oligarchy Wins Again!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Corporate Lobbying, Baby Boomers, Filibuster, Congress, Big Pharma, Democrats, California, Health Insurance Debate, Health Bill, Health Care Reform, Washington Corruption, Corporate Power, Republicans, United States Senate, Military-Industrial Complex, Senate, Ike Eisenhower, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The health reform bill the corporate oligarchy just purchased from the best Congress money can buy has investors stoked, as the soaring stock prices of health industry corporations reach a 52-year high point!

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Will the Corporate Supremes Now Dance on Democracy's Corpse?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, John McCain, Corporate Power, John Roberts, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Harvey Wasserman

The contradiction between human rights and corporate power is at the core of the cancer now killing our democracy.

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A Dialogue on Leadership in Uncertain Times: Session 3

Jan Birchfield, Ph.D | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Women's Leadership, Job Loss, Corporate Power, Power, Executive Coaching, Executive Power, Living News
Jan Birchfield, Ph.D

Humility arises when we see through the illusion of personal identification with power; this increases the chance that we will use it in service of something larger than ourselves.

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Obama Versus JFK on Corporate Greed: A Telling Comparison

Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Jfk Obama, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, President Obama, Business News
Sheldon Filger

In the past six months, President Obama has revealed his towering intellect, basic decency and sophisticated world view. However, we have yet to observe the toughness and passion required to take on the forces that drove the U.S. and global economy into a ditch.

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The Real Modern Pirates? MNCs Beyond the Rule of Law

Terra Lawson-Remer | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Southern District, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Nigeria Oil, Nigeria, International Law, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Oil, Corporate Power, Sdny, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Lawsuit, Niger Delta, Atca, Ats, World News
Terra Lawson-Remer

The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.

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Executive Pay and What to Do About It

Burton L. Wise | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Power, Executive Pay, Corporate Greed, Corporate America, Corporations, Executive Compensation, Business News
Burton L. Wise

Small shareholders in large corporations must form organizations to unify and organize their votes advance their interests and attempt to limit the out-of control remuneration of these executives,

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Pass the Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, International Monetary Fund, Afl-Cio, Corporate Power, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq War, World Trade Organization, Wall Street, Nafta, Colombia, Vietnam War, John Sweeney, Iraq, Saul Alinsky, Iraq Timetable, Politics News
Robert Naiman

Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.

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Capitalism - the Gift That Keeps on Taking: Part II

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Crime, Corporations, Corporate America, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Socialism, Corporate Power, Business, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

History shows that capitalists, like wars, earthquakes, and floods, will always wreck our country -- the only difference being natural disasters don't also rob us in the process.

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Capitalism - The Gift That Keeps On Taking - Part III

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Crime, Corporations, Corporate America, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Socialism, Corporate Power, Business, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

Capitalism is self-sustaining like a cancer - it sustains itself as it kills it's host.

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Bringing Democracy to Corporate America

Richard Arthur | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Citi, Aig, Economic Stimulus Package, Corporate Responsibility, Bailout, Icahn, Corporate America, Democracy, Obama, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Wall Street Bonuses, Economy, Business News
Richard Arthur

It will not be painless but it is difficult to imagine it not happening -- the tools exist, corporations have proven that they need oversight and we need to protect our investments.

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Capitalism - the Gift That Keeps on Taking: Part I

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Corporations, Corporate America, Crime, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Corporate Power, Socialism, Corporate Greed, Business, Capitalism, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

Most Americans are not capitalists. They might want to be capitalists, but no matter how much you, or that hardworking barista, that well paid techno-nerd, small farmer, or gangsta rapping bank teller may want to be capitalists, you are not capitalists. You are workers.

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The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy

Riki Ott | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Green News, Corporate Power, Oil, Corporate Greed, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mobil, Green News
Riki Ott

Why should the Inupiat way of life be sacrificed for our oil dependency? The Arctic should be off limits to oil and gas development.

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Crimes at the Top of the World: The Human Cost of Oil

Riki Ott | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, Green News
Riki Ott

Why don't we all learn more about Bush's U.S. Arctic Policy along with Inupiat children like Ricky? If the Alaska story "went into you," maybe you could help protect our coasts along with yours.

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George W. Is No Martyr

Thomas Frank | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Conservatives, Harry Truman, Government Waste, Bush Legacy, Corporate Power, Presidential Campaign, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Let me be blunt. Let me be blunt like Harry Truman was blunt: Comparisons between Truman and Bush are nonsense.

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10 Reasons to Be Hopeful About 2009 and 3 Reasons to be Terrified

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

Read More: Lists, Yes We Can, Election Protection, Hope, Economic Alternatives, Economic Crisis, Corporate Power, Youth Activism, Obama Young People, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama 2009, Universal Health Care, Climate Change, YES! Magazine, Loose Nukes, Health Care, Obama Science, World News
Sarah van Gelder

We humans have the free will to make choices that assure our collective survival, or do otherwise. We have the creativity and intelligence to build on the best possibilities while averting the worst.

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The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Roche, Smoking, Economy, Food Crisis, Cargill, Aig, Corporate Power, Tax Evasion, Philippines, Osha, Imperial Sugar, HIV/AIDS, Corporate Crime, Darfur, Philip Morris, Dole, Cnpc, Corporate Greed, Constellation, Financial Crisis, Chevron, Nuclear Power, Ge, Business News
Robert Weissman

In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.

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2009: A Time for Real Economic Change

Mike Garibaldi-Frick | Posted 01.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Middle Class, George W. Bush, Ponzi Scheme, Obama, Corporate Power, Capitalism, Tax Reform, Recession, Economic Policy, FInancial Markets, Corporations, United States, Tax Cuts, Mortgage Rates, Interest Rates, Wall Street, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Business News
Mike Garibaldi-Frick

America's anger and ingenious will is stoked and a new, more open administration is coming to power looking for innovative, far-reaching ideas.

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Corporate Responsibility and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: 60th Anniversary Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eisenhower, Corporate Power, Corporations, United Nations, Business and Human Rights Resource Center, The Ruggie Framework, John Ruggie, Global Network Initiative, Business News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

With its growing impact on socio-economic conditions, business has a role to play in finally bringing the Declaration's principles to their universal realization.

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Obama's Picks and the Ideology of No Ideology

Norman Solomon | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: USA Today, Robert Reich, Economic Crisis, Economy, Constellation Energy, Boeing, David Brooks, Judge Judy, New Yrok Times, PBS "Washington Week", Timothy Geithner, Corporate Power, Mark Weisbrot, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, National Mining Association, Ideology, Politics News
Norman Solomon

On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama's picks "are not ideological." The incoming president's key economic adviser...

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Palin's The Latest Product We've Gobbled Up

Christopher Fink | Posted 10.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Marketing, Consumerism, Democracy, Corporate Power, Capitalism, Sarah Palin; Palin Bush; Palin Vice Presidential Candidate; Celebrity Politics;, Home News
Christopher Fink

As a new consumer product, Palin's candidacy is like those miraculous new prescription drugs that will cure us of all our troublesome afflictions. The problem is these products are frequently later discovered to prove hazardous to our health.

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The War on Labor Day

Elana Levin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Middle-Class Squeeze, Labor, Take Back Labor Day, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Day, Corporations, Trade, Middle Class, Corporate Power, Unions, Nafta, Workers Rights, Politics News
Elana Levin

Bill O'Reilly talks about "The War on Christmas," and while that concept has been widely lambasted I'm here today to sound a different alarm -- that there is truly a War on Labor Day.

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head: The Triumph of Politics Over Law (Part II)

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, US Supreme Court, Abortion Rights, Guantanamo Detainees, Rule of Law, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Corporate Power, Race, Pollution, Civil Rights, Detainees, Corporate America, Voting Rights, Environment, Voter ID Laws, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite the changing winds of politics, the expansion of the voting franchise has been one of our most consistent trends since the birth of the Republic.

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Big Business Dominates Small Business Contracting Programs

Chris Gunn | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Beltway Bandits, Fortune 500, Small Business, Corporate America, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Federal Contracting, Corporate Power, American Small Business League, Business News
Chris Gunn

This is a great story, which ran across Associated Press media outlets today regarding the unequal distribution of small business contracts in the Washington D.C. area.

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Paying Off Clinton's Debt: Not A Dime For Mark Penn

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colombia, Hillary Clinton, Karen Hughes, Corporate Power, Class Warfare, Mark Penn, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

Penn has hated everything about the movement for change long before he helped pilot the Clinton presidential campaign to disaster. Now he's teaming up with Karen Hughes in a "bi-partisan" effort.

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John McCain's New Populism?

Diane Francis | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Greed, Wall Street Bonuses, John McCain, CEO Pay, Wall Street Regulations, Excess CEO Compensation, Lobbyists, CEO Compensation, Shareholder Rights, Corporate Power, Shareholder Value, Shareholder Democracy, Barack Obama, Tax Cuts Fo Rthe Rich, Business Roundtable, Boards of Directors, Profits, Corporate America, Economic Reform, Tax Cuts, Business News
Diane Francis

McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.

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