Archive for the 'corporate power' Category

The Junta’s Accomplices

If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.

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How Did We Get Into This Mess?

Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago

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Union With the Devil

The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.

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A Sudden Change of State

A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change - and the size of the necessary response.

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Not What It Says on the Tin

Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding

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Without Principle

New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.

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Car-nage

We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

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A Parallel State

For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?

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The New Friends of the Earth?

The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?

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Defence Against What?

The Iraq disaster has eliminated the last major function of our armed forces. So let’s pay ourselves a war dividend. Read more »

Who’s Paying?

When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.

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The Smoke Behind the Deniers’ Fire

It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers - Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.

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Peace Is For Wimps

Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.

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Beholden to the Mob

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

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Who Runs Britain?

I nominate the CBI.

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The Corporate Begging Bowl

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

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Africa’s New Best Friends

The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.

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In Bed With the Killers

BP is working with a genocidal government

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A Vehicle for Equality

Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?

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The Business of Killing

The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers

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Too Soft on Crime

The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.

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Mighty Mouse

Disney’s infantilisation of our culture masks a hard, hegemonic will
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The Covert Biotech War

The corporations seeking to force GM food into reluctant markets are opening new fronts in their internet campaign against their critics.
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Trouble in the Pipeline

The corporations have asked us to trust them. But even the paragon of “corporate social responsibility” is saying one thing and doing quite another.
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Corporate Phantoms

New findings reveal a web of deceit around GM food, in which the Prime Minister has now been caught.
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They’re All Dammed

The British government appears ready to fund another ethnic cleansing scheme in Turkey
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The Business of Power

Why does the British government remain wedded to the corporations?
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Greens Get Eaten

The environment movement is in serious trouble, as it is losing touch with its ideals.
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Trade piracy unmasked

Poor countries are still being cheated by the rich world
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What is … The Corporate Takeover?

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Silence of the Wolves

By refusing to engage with its critics, the government makes reason redundant.
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Sleeping with the Enemy

Consumer and environment groups are getting into bed with big corporations
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Market Force

As free traders shelter behind repressive regimes, GM crops are being driven into reluctant markets
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Privatising Our Minds

Cause-Related Marketing is a new form of social control
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Stealing Europe

The great European dream has been subverted by corporate power
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Big Business vs Big Ideas

Labour’s determination to please the corporations is stifling political debate
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A Corporate Aristocracy

Market values are in direct conflict with the ethics of public service
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A Damning Alibi

The latest British sleaze scandal hints at a far bigger, untold story
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Big Business, As Seen On TV

The Communications White Paper will help the corporations to stifle dissent
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More Human Than We Are

Corporations are asserting their “human rights” to exploit the rest of us.
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Does Working with Business Compromise the Environmentalist?

Does Working with Business Compromise the Environmentalist?
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Making Peace With Power

The United Nations is trying to regain its credibility by fawning to big business
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The Great Blob Coalesces

The massive mergers taking place are a disaster for democracy
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Reservoir of Sleaze

The British Government is underwriting Turkey’s ethnic cleansing programme.
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The New Global Masterplan

The WTO might have failed, but big business has a fallback scheme
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Economies of Scale

The World Trade Organisation makes businesses bigger - and that makes the rest of us smaller
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Human Traffic

Just as predicted, new laws have allowed corporations to seize our genes
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Depraved Debt Collectors

It’s time to disband the murderous Export Credit Guarantee Department
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The Vampires Get the Bloodbank

Lord Sainsbury’s conflicts of interest should disqualify him from government
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Skewed Science

Scientists are being forced to work for corporations, and against the rest of us
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Deregulation Kills

The Government is letting companies dump their costs on the rest of us
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Running on MMT

The Multilateral Agreement on Investments will force governments to poison their citizens
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Emotional Blackmail

How disabled people ended up campaigning for a predatory drugs firm
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The Corporate Dole Queue

Britain’s corporations are living off state handouts
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Secrets or Lies?

The Department of Trade and Industry is misleading us about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
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The Monsanto Monster

One corporation’s attempt to take over the world
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Silencing Dissent

Big companies are using the courts to stifle their critics
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Making Government Redundant

A charter for the corporate takeover of the earth is being negotiated by Northern governments, and no one even knows
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Enemy of the Earth

John Gummer presides over the Government’s starkest conflict of interest
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