Category: corporate power

Squandered

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.

When pundits discuss contentious issues on air, they must reveal their financial interests.

It isn’t just Exxon which has funded the climate change deniers – Big Tobacco has also played a strange and disturbing role.

Real men in government use their position to sell weapons.

The UK’s competition authorities still seem to be working for the superstores

I nominate the CBI.

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them.

The corporations which helped to immiserate Africa are being given control of its development.