Thursday, August 13, 2026

Tag: big corporations

As corporations enjoy record-high profits, experts urge Congress to ‘rein them...

"Instead of raising interest rates and slowing the economy toward a recession, Congress and Biden should be taking aim at corporate price gouging."

The fix is in on fixing things

Big corporations want to make it illegal for you to repair the devices you bought from them.

How CEOs are ruining America

Big American corporations aren’t organized to promote the wellbeing of Americans, and Americans cannot thrive within a system run largely by corporations.

‘Awesome, brilliant, necessary’: Seattle bans foreign-influenced corporations from spending in local...

"It is possible to take on powerful corporations and win. Just look at Seattle."

Who represents us when our political parties represent only corporations?

Our future depends on bridging the artificially cultivated political divide that serves only interests fundamentally contrary to our common well-being.

Why making American corporations more competitive doesn’t help most Americans

Restoring corporations' “competitive edge” has little or nothing to do with helping American workers.

Greece – What You are not Being Told by the Media

According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could benefit.

Trans Pacific Trickle-Down Economics

If we allow the Trans-Pacific Partnership to pass, big corporations and Wall Street will be the only ones who will benefit. The idea that trickle-down economics will occur if this bill passes is a myth.

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...

Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Howard Zinn speaking in 2009. Photo: Jim from Stevens Point, WI, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn

We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .

Cats are fueling a global eco-crisis, pushing birds and other species to extinction

Free-roaming cats are an invasive species and one of the most significant sources of human-caused bird mortality.
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Judge Amit Mehta issued the order. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.