Category: corporate power

The Self-Attribution Fallacy

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.

We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy.

This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.

The “free market thinktanks” and their secret funders are a threat to democracy.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.

Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems?

Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.

You thought elections counted for something? Look at what wasn’t in the manifesto.

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?

The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.

The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights?

The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.