Sunday, March 22, 2026

Tag: corporate power

Senators probe Equifax over plans to profit from Medicaid and SNAP...

Warren, Wyden, and Sanders are demanding disclosures from Equifax as new federal work requirements threaten to strip healthcare and food assistance from millions while expanding the company’s already dominant income verification business.

Make corporate complicity unprofitable: Gen Z campaign launches boycott of companies...

As Trump intensifies immigration crackdowns, a new boycott movement targets the corporations supplying ICE with infrastructure, technology, and access to consumers.

Victims without victimizers

But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people?

Questioning the corporation

From trading posts to tech empires, corporations continue to grow in strength. Without reform, their power may soon eclipse public control entirely.

‘Financial insecurity runs deep’: Americans blame Trump economy for rising hardship

New polling and data reveal deepening financial strain across the U.S. under Trump’s second term, with many blaming corporate power, deregulation, and GOP-backed policies for rising prices and declining economic security.

Trump labels Tesla dealership attacks as domestic terrorism amid Musk controversy

Trump escalates his support for Elon Musk by declaring attacks on Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, raising concerns over government overreach and the criminalization of political dissent.

Amazon quietly rescinds pledges to protect Black and LGBTQ rights amid...

Major corporations quietly abandon equity commitments as political pressures rise, sparking concerns for marginalized communities.

A global minimum wage would reduce poverty and corporate power

The world’s vast economic inequality “is no accident,” concluded a top Oxfam official.

Trump’s chief of staff pick worked as a tobacco lobbyist during...

Susie Wiles, a central figure in Trump’s 2024 campaign, also worked as a registered lobbyist for Swisher International, a major tobacco company, as recently as this year.

World-ending maneuvers?

The influence of such special interest groups and corporate weapons-makers over life-and-death issues should be considered both a moral outrage and perhaps the ultimate security risk.

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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back

Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.

The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace

Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.

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.

Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.