Tag: corporations
The partisan use of preemption is surging
Far from advancing any big public goals, preemption is now being used to advance corporate agendas.
Cuomo wants to privatize Penn Station; that’s a bad Republican idea
It would be tragic if a “summer of hell” for New York commuters led to a lifetime of servitude to corporate interests.
Cut corporate taxes? This is how the biggest companies cheated on...
Ten companies mentioned in this report collectively withheld nearly $15 billion in tax money in 2016.
Why it’s getting harder (and more dangerous) to hold companies accountable
Corporations are using defamation lawsuits to shut down their detractors—and the problem is only getting worse.
Portland, Ore., becomes first major U.S. city to end all new...
To avoid doing business with socially irresponsible corporations, the city is willing to lose investment income – about $4.5 million a year.
Remembering the insider who blew the whistle on corporate greed
Graef Crystal proved that corporations won't police themselves. Maybe good policies can.
5 reasons why Trump’s corporate tax cut is appallingly dumb
Don’t fall for Trump’s corporate tax giveaway.
Donald Trump inauguration bankrolled by corporate giants
Many companies, executives have business before federal government.
NY Times publishes article written by Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats...
“I am saddened, but not surprised, by the outcome.”
Corporate tax avoidance is also scamming investors
US corporations have trillions stashed in tax havens, being kept away from taxation and shareholders.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
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?
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.