Category: corporate power

Loved to Death

By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism.

Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test.

Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists.

Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy.

The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for.

Nothing will change until we confront the real sources of power.

That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering.

Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics.

Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets?

Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa.

Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for.

Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf.

Here’s how we can defeat political corruption of the kind that’s destroying US democracy.

We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy.

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?

Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws.

Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants.

Cameron tells us to trust business: as he hands it the keys to the nation.

Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations.

Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.