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.
Are Corporations Required to “Maximize Profits”??
You hear people say it all the time when they get into discussions about corporate power and how to change the system: “Corporations are required by law to maximize profits.” The assumption is that the view so famously articulated by…