Climate Change Denier’s Research Is Funded By Oil Interests
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of...
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Leaked: The Oil Lobby’s Plan to Kill Off California’s Climate Law
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
‘Poster Boy for Malevolent Big Business’ Indicted Over Fatal Coal Mine Disaster
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of coal giant Massey Energy, faces up to 31 years in prison after a federal...
Bernie Sanders: The Real News Story They Won’t Discuss Is, Why Are People Working Longer Hours For Less Pay?
From the transcript at Moyers & Co., where Bernie Sanders makes his usual incisive points: BILL MOYERS: Well, that’s interesting....
Corporation Admits to Serious Wrongdoing But Individuals Aren’t Prosecuted. Why Not?
You know those pesky statements of facts in deferred prosecution agreements? Where the corporation agrees that it did all those...
Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Billionaire Blasts Companies That Jump Overseas To Duck Taxes: ‘I’m Selling Your Stock’
As more and more American corporations have used mergers and shell companies to shift profits and shrink their U.S. tax...
Paul Krugman: Corporate Artful Dodgers
In recent decisions, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has made clear its view that corporations are people, with...
California Voters to Weigh-In on “Corporate Personhood”
California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has permitted SB 1272, an advisory measure entitled the Overturn Citizens United Act, to appear...
It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers
A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying our fair share...
Big Tobacco’s Secret Workforce: Child Farm Workers
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
Inequality and the Global Race to the Bottom
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
GE, Pfizer, Microsoft, Apple and Other Major US Corporations Are Parking More Cash Abroad to Avoid Paying Taxes
U.S.-based nonfinancial companies are parking record amounts of cash abroad, thanks largely to a tax code that encourages them to...
