Politicians and government contractors now seem to be able to get away with almost anything. Read more.
Category: corporate power
By embracing their critics and colonising governments, corporations engineer a world of conformity and consumerism. Read more.
Do those negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership have any interest in democracy? Here’s a test. Read more.
Amazingly, the BBC seems happy to be exploited by covert corporate lobbyists. Read more.
Politicians and officials are desperately seeking to justify their transatlantic assault on democracy. Read more.
The BBC’s disgraceful failure to reveal who its contributors are speaking for. Read more.
Nothing will change until we confront the real sources of power. Read more.
That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering. Read more.
Apple offers 21st Century technology – with 19th Century ethics. Read more.
Who killed the plan for cigarettes to be sold only in plain packets? Read more.
Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa. Read more.
Forcing schools into the hands of unelected oligarchs is the latest contradiction of everything the market fetishists claim to stand for. Read more.
Billionaires are hiding behind a network of “independent” groups, who manipulate politics on their behalf. Read more.
Here’s how we can defeat political corruption of the kind that’s destroying US democracy. Read more.
We’re getting a better idea of how billionaires and corporations capture government policy. Read more.
Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned? Read more.
Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws. Read more.
Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants. Read more.
Cameron tells us to trust business: as he hands it the keys to the nation. Read more.
Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations. Read more.