A Reminder: The Rich Don’t Always Win
Sam Pizzigati (editor of the superb website, TooMuchOnline, which tracks CEO pay and other gross excesses of the super-rich) has a new book out that rebuts the self-justifying claims used by the rich and right-wing elites: The Rich Don’t Always…
Tax (Policy) Time
The call to reform corporate taxes is accelerating. The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy papers on tax reform today that at least include some ideas we like for discussion and inclusion, such as a carbon tax (more…
Exxon, Dow, and the Koch Brothers: Buying the Bench
A Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Exxon, Dow, the Kochs, the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate groups spent millions of dollars in recent years to send sitting judges to weekend seminars on corporate crime and other topics. Not only were the seminars heavily biased toward…
Civic Censorship: “Corporate Crime”
A new column by Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, points out that U.S. news media have used the term “corporate crime” just 42 times since the year began. The only instance in which an American outlet used the…
Geithner Must Go
An early litmus test of Barack Obama’s willingness to push policies to help the middle class in his second term — as promised ad nauseum throughout the campaign — will be whether or not he gives Treasury Secretary Geithner the…
The Right to Know What’s In Our Food is a Civil Right
With less than a week to go before California voters decide whether they want food that contains genetically engineered (GE) ingredients to be explicitly labeled as such, the board of the American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) has…
Is Montana’s Attorney General Ignoring the Best Challenge to Citizens United? If so, Why?
The Corporate Crime Reporter, the Washington, DC-based newsletter edited by Russell Mokhiber, reported a few days ago that Steve Bullock, the attorney general of Montana, is refusing to assert Montana’s sovereign immunity from suit in a case brought before the U.S….
Exxon’s Private Empire
Steve Coll’s new book on ExxonMobil, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, is a masterful portrait of one of the world’s most powerful corporations. Coll (with help from a team of investigators) traveled around the world and conducted hundreds of…
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Did you miss the “Control the Corporation” conference held in DC on April 2? If so, the panels are now available on video.
Links
Corporate Policy – General: Aurora Institute(Canadian group) Citizen Works The Corporate Library (Excellent corporate governance and CEO pay info) “The Corporation” (a new movie about corporations) CounterCorp is the only annual independent film festival devoted to corporate power and related issues Essential Information…