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Corporations
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Corporations Killed Medicine. Here’s How to Take It Back
For most of human history, life-saving drugs were a public good. Now they're only good for shareholders.
The Perfect Crime: What’s Killing All the Bees?
Mega-corporations are making a killing off their pesticides - but are they also getting away with murder?
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In Ohio, Communities Work to Defend Themselves Against Fossil Fuel Industry
Passing a law is one thing - building a movement to demand its enforcement is another.
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How Oil Lobbyists Won the Fight to Drill in the Alaskan Wilderness
How oil industry lobbyists played the long game - wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.
Koch Self-Interest in Criminal Justice Reform, Exposed
Over at least the past five years, the Kochs and Koch-backed groups have been pushing to increase the “intent” standard for criminal violations.
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What the GOP Is Putting Under Corporate America’s Tree
This year-end tax package is a grab bag of gifts for corporations and a lump of coal for working families.
Corporations, Not People, Have Been Made Stakeholders in the New Global Order
Susan George, author of “Shadow Sovereigns,” discusses the rise of corporate personhood on a global scale.
“Corporate Environmentalism” Threatens COP21 Climate Talks
Despite grandiose pledges to reduce carbon emissions, we have continued to pollute the planet.
A Big Fat Radioactive Lie
Billionaires are hyping nuclear power as a magic cure for climate change.
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The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Everywhere you look you find masses, droves, gangs of unelected, unaccountable, profit-oriented individuals, corporations and new institutions surfacing, making official policy.