Corporate Rights

"Free Trade": The Capitulation Continues, Middle Class Weeps

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Rights, Intellectual Property, Slavery, Peru, South Korea, Ron Kirk, Free Trade, Bill Daley, Colombia, Wages, Middle Class, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

"Free trade" is right up there on the list of very bad policies -- at least if you believe in a middle class. But the administration is amping up its efforts to get three "free trade" deals through Congress.

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Scalia et al Make Up Corporate Constitutional Rights

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Rights, Justice, Constitution, Supreme Court of the United States, Antonin Scalia, Corporate Power, Linda Greenhouse, Citizens United, Robbery, Corruption, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

The Supreme Court has divined new rights to corporations not found in the Constitution -- rights that run precisely counter to the idea of guarding against concentrated power.

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Citizens United v. FEC: Shed a Tear for Democracy

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Rights, Supreme Court, First Amendment, Corporate Power, Corporations, Campaign Finance, Mccain-Feingold, Politics News
Robert Weissman

In Citizens United v. FEC the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend money to influence elections. We, the People, cannot allow this decision to go unchallenged. We, the People, cannot allow corporations to take control of our democracy.

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