That’s what the new rules being smuggled into trade agreements are delivering.
Category: corporate power
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.
Scorched Earth Economics
Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?
A Monstrous Proposal
Why the private sector should be subject to freedom of information laws.
The Shadow Government
Through a network of unbalanced, almost-invisible committees, the government gets what it wants.
In Praise of Distrust
Cameron tells us to trust business: as he hands it the keys to the nation.
Plutocracy, Pure and Simple
Now it’s a straight fight with the billionaires and corporations.
The Corporate Welfare State
Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.
The Self-Attribution Fallacy
Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.
Wealth Destroyers
The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.
Show Me The Money
We have a democratic right to know who is funding public advocacy.
War with the Wullies
This planning battle is a fight between the people and a totalitarian model of capitalism.
Think of a Tank
The “free market thinktanks” and their secret funders are a threat to democracy.
How the Billionaires Broke the System
The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.