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

(cdrummbks / flickr) Fast on the heels of the passage and then Supreme Court interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, a new type of feudalism emerged in America …

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist and writer in Madison, Wisconsin, and she is affiliated with the Program on Corporations, Law, …

Thomas Jefferson. (Image: Gilbert Stuart / cliff1066™; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Although the first shots were fired in 1775 and the Declaration was signed in 1776, …

The battle between the small businessmen of America and the huge multinational East India Company actually began in Pennsylvania, according to Hewes.

While corporations can live forever, exist in several different places at the same time, change their identities at will, and even chop off parts of themselves or sprout new …

Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.

This new corporate entity was, of course, not something that was physically real; it was an agreement, a so-called legal fiction authorized by a government.

Over the past century, corporations have repeatedly asserted that they are, in fact, “persons” and therefore eligible for the human rights protections of the Bill of Rights -- while …