Category: corporate power

A Global Ban on Left-Wing Politics

That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?

Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws.

Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants.

Cameron tells us to trust business: as he hands it the keys to the nation.

Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations.

Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.

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.