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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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.