Tag: corporate power
The little secret about corporate profits
The power of big corporations to raise their prices higher than their costs are rising.
What’s really driving inflation? Corporate power
This structural problem is amenable to only one thing: the aggressive use of antitrust law.
Six-month sentence for lawyer who took on Chevron denounced as ‘international...
Conviction of Steven Donziger "perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies."
Excessive corporate power breeds political repression
In the face of extractive industries’ enormous economic clout, Central Americans are facing increasing displacement and threats to their democratic rights.
The basic deal between corporate America and the GOP is alive...
The basic deal between American corporations and American politicians has been a terrible deal for America.
How corporations crush the working class
The resulting power imbalance has spawned near-record inequalities of income and wealth, corruption of democracy by big money, and the abandonment of the working class.
Vote no on CA Prop 22: Reject this corporate power grab
Don’t let big corporations pay hundreds of millions to strip workers of the rights and protections they need.
‘Unacceptable’: Dems fume after Trump announces plan to refuse Congressional oversight...
"The Treasury has the ability to move this money extremely quickly; there's nobody that Secretary Mnuchin has to ask."
Do-it-yourselfers unite!
People have been fixing stuff ever since stuff was invented. Now big corporations want to change that.
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Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.
The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance
We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.
Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest Americans
"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign
The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.