The CEOs of nearly 200 of the top companies in the U.S. have redefined the purpose of a corporation, saying…
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Trillion-dollar-company Amazon skated through 2018’s tax filings without paying a cent for the second year in a row. The e-commerce…
It was 1969 when artist John Chamberlain decided to screen his film The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez in the…
Corporations and governments alike are hungry for data on people. In addition to internet behavior records and mobile phone metadata,…
A former associate editor for Vice is making waves after releasing internal emails that he says suggests that “there’s no…
Did you know that your Heinz ketchup, which the company claims is ‘all natural,’ is really full of toxic, genetically…
Food manufacturers who use genetically modified (GMO) ingredients want permission from the federal government to stamp their products with the…
This chart shows that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies. It’s called “The Illusion of…
By 2030, more than half of Americans could be obese, taxing the nation’s health while costing the country $500 billion…
Crony Capitalism in America, 2008-2012. By Hunter Lewis Those of us who favor the free market must confront a problem.…
By Luke Dale-Harris In September 1995, a secret agreement was signed inside the Romanian government giving convicted criminal Frank Timis…
Computer security experts at Symantec say they’ve identified an elite group of Chinese hackers who have targeted the systems of…
By Hazel Henderson An “externality” is code in economics jargon meaning any cost of producing a product that can be…
By Jordan Rubin It’s bad enough that Nestlé former CEO—now Chairman of the Board—Peter Brabeck-Letmathe supports GMO farming, saying that…
By Paul Buchheit Committed capitalists don’t seem to recognize that people depend on each other, and that individual success is…
By Emily Stephenson The U.S. financial risk council on Tuesday said it has designated American International Group (AIG.N) and GE…
By Robert Scheer For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media…
We reported last year: Democratic Senator Wyden – the head of the committee which is supposed to oversee it –…