Should We Let Scam-Artists ‘Educate’ Our Young People?
By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Just over 200,000 young American men and women — all students defrauded by a now defunct for-profit trade school — received some welcome news earlier…
Court Rejects Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit, Ensuring Vast Discovery
An unusual and significant court ruling entitles YouTube's main competitor, Rumble, to obtain long-hidden internal documents on Google's search engine manipulations.
Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Analysis Shows
"We must put an end to drug corporations' unfettered ability to dictate prices at the expense of patients."
The Corporatization of Just About Everything — Including the Climate Crisis and Outer Space
Not only is there more corporate control in more areas of life but (worse) there has been consolidation of corporate power into monopolies that are so powerful that they seem…
Ralph Nader: Students, Campuses and Dominant Corporate Power
Students need to think about civic engagement and the corporate power over the educational institutions that the students attend.
‘The Uber Files’: 124,000+ Leaked Files Expose Global Dirty Dealings of Ride-Hailing Giants
Internal documents reveal how company "won access to world leaders, cozied up to oligarchs and dodged taxes amid chaotic global expansion."
Decimated Railroad Workers and Supply Chain Issues: Latest Victims of Corporate Greed
Draconian labor policies, “cost-cutting” measures, and mass layoffs are decimating US railroad workers for the sake of corporate profits. And the effects are reverberating throughout the supply chain.
Why Roe v. Wade’s Demise—Unlike Gay Rights or Ukraine—Isn’t Getting Corporate America to Speak Up
By Alessandro Piazza, Rice University / The Conversation Corporate America – once known for carefully avoiding public stances on hot button issues – has, in recent years, become increasingly outspoken…
Ralph Nader: The Continuing Damages from Corporate-Managed so-Called Free Trade
By Ralph Nader The great progressive Harvard economist and prolific best-selling author, John Kenneth Galbraith, wrote that, “Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the…
Rail Firms Paid Shareholders £800m Before Asking Workers to Take Wage Cut
CEOs of the six biggest train companies also took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020.
What is Westinghouse Doing in Ukraine?
Westinghouse lands in Ukraine to ink new nuclear deal.
Taxing the Rich to Boost Social Security
Instead of growing financial security, Sam Pizzigati says the current retirement system in the U.S. is growing greater overall economic inequality.
Hedges: The Triumph of Death
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
If Poverty Is a Moral Issue, Then the U.S. Is Bankrupt
The Poor People’s Campaign, ahead of its June 18 gathering, is calling out the false pro-corporate rhetoric on poverty, wages, and inflation.