Category: corporate power

There Is An Alternative

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

The Toll-Booth Economy

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

Land of Impunity

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

Loved to Death

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

All Give and No Take

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

Puppet Show

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

Hidden Interests

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

Apple Turnover

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

Smoking Gun

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

Corporate Carve-Up

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

A Capitalist Command Economy

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

Secrets of the Rich

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

Money Spinners

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

Plutocracy’s Boot Boys

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