Category: corporate power

Plutocracy’s Boot Boys

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.

What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.

Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems?

Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.

You thought elections counted for something? Look at what wasn’t in the manifesto.

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?

The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.

The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.