Norm Solomon on ‘How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy’
“If you don’t examine real history, then you’re in a cycle that repeats the same problems,” says Norman Solomon.
The Biden Administration Says Its Trade Policy Puts People Over Corporations. Documents on Baby Formula Show Otherwise.
By Heather Vogell / ProPublica The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health…
Federal Prosecutors Recommend Criminal Charges for Boeing
"Apparently, you have to kill hundreds of people before they even start to think about consequences," said one observer.
Ralph Nader: Ultraprocessed Deadly Corporate Food Demands Action
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org About forty-five years ago, at a social gathering, I asked an executive of a Minneapolis-based large food processing company if he fed heavily sugared cereals…
As Amazon Eliminates Plastic Packaging Abroad, It’s Using Even More in the US
A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.
How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions From Developing Countries
A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.
Wage Gains at UPS Have Amazon Workers Demanding More
By Luis Feliz Leon / LaborNotes Amazon warehouse worker Paul Blundell has spent the past year talking to his co-workers about how UPS Teamsters were getting organized to strike. So…
Ralph Nader: The Frankenstein Chatbots Are Erupting
Will the People Counter with Ethical and Enforceable Legal Frameworks?
Ralph Nader: Inverted Corporate Capitalism—Blocking Their Owner-Shareholders
By Ralph Nader / Nader.org It is the season of annual shareholder meetings for giant corporations when CEOs go through the motions of elections for their Board of Directors and…
Digital Privacy Legislation is Civil Rights Legislation
By Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz / Electronic Frontier Foundation Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life.…
Ralph Nader: Letter to Tim Cook, Other Ultra-Rich CEOs and Hedge Fund Titans
By Ralph Nader The victims of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria need your help now. The surviving families and children and those rescued alive from the rubble…
Our Freedoms Shrink as Our Military Expands
By Brad Wolf / CounterPunch The Merchants of Death even own our sidewalks. That’s what we were told when we arrived at Raytheon Technologies in Arlington, Virginia, on Valentine’s Day,…
The Birthplace of American Dystopia: Cop City, Atlanta
Cop City Atlanta is a privately funded, local community surveillance campus that has already taken the life of one protestor as a harbinger of the police state on the horizon.
How Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth and a More Just Society
Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy.
McKinsey’s Addiction Corporations
By Thomas Klikauer / CounterPunch Almost 30 years ago, tobacco CEOs were forced to answer questions – under oath. For the first time, corporate bosses had to admit that tobacco…