Tag: Corporate America
Amazon’s worst bargain yet
The retail behemoth wants your local government's business, but there's a hidden cost to low prices: Local businesses get shut out.
Why wages are going nowhere
The combination of high corporate profits and growing corporate political power has created a vicious cycle.
As support for progressive agenda grows, Sanders says ‘big money interests’...
"There is a reason why the corporate Democrats are getting nervous. And that's because we are making real progress in transforming the party and the nation."
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.
Adidas to phase out ‘virgin’ plastic from its sportswear, will only...
Adidas will start using recycled polyester in its spring and summer 2019 sportswear line in which the products will contain 41 percent of the recycled material.
Who’s buying our elections? Inside the shadowy world of ‘Dark Money’
Salon talks to director Kimberly Reed about her new documentary.
Bernie Sanders takes on corporate power and wealth inequality during town...
"This is what a rigged economy looks like and it must end."
Sanders hosts ‘CEOs vs. Workers’ town hall to take on ‘extravagant’...
Join Bernie Sanders, along with workers from Amazon, Disney, McDonald’s, American Airlines and Walmart, for a town hall tonight at 7 p.m.
Detaining immigrant children – a billion-dollar industry
“It was never intended to be a foster care system with more than 10,000 children in custody at an immediate cost to the federal taxpayer of over $1 billion dollars per year.”
Billionaire wolves in workers’ clothing
Right-wing “foundations” across the country started spending the tens of millions they’d received from billionaires to bust unions.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage
Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.
Big oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.