Thom Hartmann | Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became 'People' and How You Can Fight Back

(Image: JR / Truthout) Who reads your mail? Nobody? It depends what system you use for communication. Paper mail that is delivered by the government-run U.S. Postal …

(Image: JR / Truthout) Consider this August 3, 2001, White House press briefing, in which the editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, Russell Mokhiber, asked a question of …

(Image: JR / Truthout) You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. —President Andrew Jackson It costs money to run a government, and …

(Image: JR / Truthout) When corporations gained the protections that had been written for persons in the United States, a substantial shift began in who bears what …

(Image: JR / Truthout) There’s a side to regulation that most people don’t think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the …

(Image: JR / Truthout) The statistic in this chapter’s epigraph is sobering indeed. It says corporations sought protection under the Fourteenth Amendment a hundred times more often …

(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …

(Image: JR / Truthout) The first direct shot across the bow of the doctrine of a corporation’s “right to lie” by using its “personhood” to claim First …

(Image: JR / Truthout) On December 12, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted yet another gift to corporate power—and hammered yet another nail into the coffin of …

(Image: JR / Truthout) People, at the time, generally weren’t all that concerned about the fate of the world’s dolphins. It was the last week of June …