Tag: corporate power
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.
Will the Golden Age for corporate shareholders ever end?
Shareholders have assumed enormous influence over U.S. corporations over the last few decades. Despite their firm hold, shifts are underway that could alter the domestic corporate landscape.
New report finds Tyson Foods dumped pollutants into US waterways for...
The wastewater analyzed consisted of pathogens and microorganisms and slaughterhouse byproducts, such as body parts of animals, feces and blood.
Green New Deal XXIII: Fixing our broken food system means ending...
We need to rethink how we grow our food in a biodiversity-friendly way that mitigates rather than accelerates the climate breakdown.
Who’s to blame for out-of-control corporate power?
The public is waking up to the outsized power corporations wield over our economy and democracy. It’s about time.
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.
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GOP-led states risk leaving 10 million children hungry by rejecting $1.14 billion summer food...
Twelve Republican-led states face a January 1 deadline to join the Summer EBT program, a lifeline for millions of hungry kids, as advocates urge governors to act amid rising food insecurity and economic challenges.
More than 120 House Democrats urge Biden to ratify Equal Rights Amendment as deadline...
Lawmakers push President Joe Biden to finalize a constitutional ban on sex discrimination while Republicans invoke past deadlines to stall progress.
Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t just unqualified and inexperienced—they’re morally bankrupt
While every president has a right to select their own Cabinet appointees, the Senate also has the Constitutional authority to decide whether each nominee is fit to serve.
6 fracking Billionaires and climate denial groups behind Trump’s cabinet
Trump’s nominees are backed by major players in the world of climate obstruction – from Project 2025 and Koch network fixtures to oil-soaked Christian nationalists.
Endo’s end around: How one of the nation’s largest opioid makers escaped a $7...
Endo “came with a strategy purposely intended to reduce payments to opioid victims."