Category: corporate power

Imaginary Friends

Celebrity is not harmless fun – it’s the lieutenant of exploitation.

Why is there a worldwide revolt against politics as usual? Because corporate globalisation has crushed democratic choice.

Donald Trump’s staff are drawn from an opaque network of corporate-funded thinktanks and fake grassroots campaigns

Corporate lobbyists and their captive governments try to wear down our resistance with one fake trade treaty after another.

To this government, “taking back control” means handing Britain to a different set of foreign powers

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart.

Britain is not corrupt? Only through a ridiculously narrow framing of what corruption is.

The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.

Why will no one answer the obvious, massive question about TTIP?

The great political question of our age is what to do about corporate power. It’s time we answered it.

This bill of rights for corporations will blow up the sovereignty of parliaments

Corporate power is the real enemy within, but none of the major parties will confront it.

Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything.

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.