Category: corporate power

Sending Off the Ref

The government’s disastrous new deregulation programme means that the poor will be fouled by the rich.

Shocked by the hacked emails? Wait till you see what the other side’s been up to.

Here’s the evidence for the contentions in The Real Climate Scandal

Impeded by Gordon Brown, the G20 has decided that bankers won’t be properly regulated.

Why have government agencies been paying to increase the number of flights?

The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

Pay drivers to scrap their cars? We might as well burn ten-pound notes in power stations.

This is how a government elected to stamp out sleaze became worse than its predecessor.

Another set of corporations is pressing for public money. Governments should let them die.

They baled out of the bail-out, but the money will still have to come from us. It always has.

Why is the US government still pouring billions into missile defence?

If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.

Many of our current crises are the long-term results of a meeting which took place 60 years ago

A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response.

Even in the rich nations, the babymilk manufacturers are undermining breastfeeding

New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.

We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

For how much longer will BAE be allowed to run its own secret service and overrule the armed forces?

The superstores are suddenly competing to be green. Can we trust them?

The Iraq disaster has eliminated the last major function of our armed forces. So let’s pay ourselves a war dividend.