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Archive for the 'corporate power' Category
Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.
Scrap It
Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.
Squandered
This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor.
The Other Bail-Out
Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.
Congress Confronts Its Contradictions
They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.
The Magic Pudding
Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?
The Junta’s Accomplices
If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.
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
Union With the Devil
The trade unions still rage about the class war, but keep funding their class enemies.
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.
Not What It Says on the Tin
Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding
Without Principle
New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.
Car-nage
We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.
A Parallel State
For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?
The New Friends of the Earth?
The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?
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.
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.
Peace Is For Wimps
Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.
Beholden to the Mob
The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores
Who Runs Britain?
I nominate the CBI.
The Corporate Begging Bowl
They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.
Africa’s New Best Friends
The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.
In Bed With the Killers
BP is working with a genocidal government
A Vehicle for Equality
Would Rover not have been better off as a workers’ co-operative?
The Business of Killing
The corporate manslaughter bill has been neutered to please employers
Too Soft on Crime
The government is letting the corporate killers walk free.
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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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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