Category: corporate power

You Want It Darker?

The remarkable story of how the hard-right Koch brothers funded a Trotskyite splinter group.

Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks

Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause

How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms

How dark money is subverting democracy in the UK.

Freedom is used as the excuse for ripping down public protections on behalf of the very rich.

How a dark money network is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic.

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.