A Reminder: The Rich Don’t Always Win
Sam Pizzigati (editor of the superb website, TooMuchOnline, which tracks CEO pay and other gross excesses of the super-rich) has a new book out that rebuts the self-justifying claims used by the rich and right-wing elites: The Rich Don’t Always…
Tax (Policy) Time
The call to reform corporate taxes is accelerating. The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy papers on tax reform today that at least include some ideas we like for discussion and inclusion, such as a carbon tax (more…
Exxon, Dow, and the Koch Brothers: Buying the Bench
A Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Exxon, Dow, the Kochs, the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate groups spent millions of dollars in recent years to send sitting judges to weekend seminars on corporate crime and other topics. Not only were the seminars heavily biased toward…
Civic Censorship: “Corporate Crime”
A new column by Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, points out that U.S. news media have used the term “corporate crime” just 42 times since the year began. The only instance in which an American outlet used the…