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Corporations
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Impunity in West Virginia as Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Recent spills have shown that Patriot Coal and Freedom Industries have both shown a pattern of acting with impunity.
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Corporate Cronyism: The Secret to Overpaid CEOs
Dean Baker: The corporate directors who are supposed to be holding down CEO pay for the benefit of the shareholders are generally buddies of the CEOs.
Lawrence Lessig’s March to End Corruption
In the footsteps of Doris “Granny D” Haddock, activist Lawrence Lessig leads a two-week,185-mile trek through the winter cold in New Hampshire to raise awareness of corruption in American …
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Corporations? Corporations? Nobody Here but Us Chickens
Author Donald Lazere details the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible.
Foodopoly: Big Agribusiness and the Monopoly on the Food Industry
From farm to fork, few things matter more than the food we eat.
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Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism
Bob Dylan's SuperBowl commercial for Chrysler opens, ‘Is there anything more American than America?’ Answer: Maybe this commercial - and not necessarily in a good way.
12 States Now Moving to Curb Reckless Outsourcing of Public Services
Six more states have joined what appears to be a national movement to reign in reckless outsourcing of public services to for-profit corporations.
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After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point
Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years.
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Moving Beyond the Corporate Vision of Sustainability
In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it's time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened and …
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Outrage at Boeing Spurs Reformers’ Bid for Top Spots in Machinists Union
For the first time in more than 50 years, the Machinists union will hold a contested election for top officers.