"Live" cartoon on the roots of the financial crisis
CUNY professor David Harvey gave a presentation in April 2010 to the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (only in Britain could they name something that, right?)...
View ArticleThe personal is political: Bipolar court says Jekyll-and-Hyde corporations...
On March 1, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in the case known as Federal Communications Commission v AT&T, finding that corporations cannot assert personal privacy rights, at...
View ArticleThe Artful Dodger: GE picks the public's pocket in a Dickensian economic system
A March 24 NY Times article headlined "GE’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether" described how General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, reported $14.2 billion in 2010 global profits,...
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FCC 'shocked, shocked' that AT&T lied about merger with T-Mobile
A draft report released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Nov. 29 found that AT&T's proposed merger with German-owned cellphone carrier T-Mobile would not be in the public interest...
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Debunking the myth of corporate competence
Among the disservices performed by the media — and particularly the embedded reporters and editors who cover corporations — is perpetuating a myth that has become pervasive in the American (and to a...
View ArticleShining a Spotlight on Corporate Pathology
Welcome to the Corporation Watch blog, which offers analysis and commentary on articles from the mainstream and alternative media related to corporate power and influence, crimes and abuses, and...
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Artful Dodgers
Even as corporations have amassed ever-greater profits, they have managed to cut their total contribution to U.S. federal revenue (which includes their share of employee payroll taxes) roughly in...
View ArticleHow about a holiday from corporate extortion?
Fortune features a Feb. 16 article by Tory Newmyer about how large multi-national tech, pharmaceutical, and energy corporations such as Oracle, Cisco, Apple, Duke Energy, and Pfizer are lobbying...
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