Friday, March 31, 2023

Tag: corporate crime

Voters from both parties overwhelmingly want Biden to crack down on...

"A Biden administration that pursues crooked CEOs and brings down abusive corporate titans will find a willing audience in the American public."

Will This Lord of the Manor Get Locked Up?

The former Massey Energy CEO is now on trial for negligence in the worst mine disaster in modern American history. It's about time Don Blankenship is put in the hot seat for putting money above everything else.

A Perfect Portrait of Corporate Crime

Martin Winterkorn, VW’s disgraced CEO, was forced to resign after the auto maker's eco-friendly diesel cars actually polluted the air more than allowed by law. Finally, a CEO must pay the consequences for betraying consumers and the environment?

Nabbing Financial Felons

The government can't stop corporate crime until it starts charging the financial felons for the crimes they oversaw. It's time the banksters themselves feel the heat.

An Escape Hatch for Corporate Cons

While corporate crimes produce horrible injuries, illnesses and deaths, they are almost always settled by fines and payoffs. Why is it that criminal corporate executives are always given a “Get Out of Jail Free” card?

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California passes law to fine oil companies over price gouging

The new law prohibiting fuel price gouging will go into effect June 26.

WATCH: Sanders rips Schultz over ‘unforgivable’ efforts to crush worker organizing

"That union-busting campaign has been led by Howard Schultz."

Australia becomes first country to approve psychedelics as form of medicine

Australia is reclassifying them as “controlled substances” and making them available for use in managed medical settings.

Western monarch butterfly population reaches its highest number since 2000

“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse, but there are signs of hope.”

Cop city coverage fails to question narratives of militarized police

The story of Tortuguita’s death is about protests against militarized policing being met with more militarized policing, which ultimately resulted in a fatal shooting.