Snooping and spying for profit
Protecting privacy in a dangerous world will never be easy. But we'll never have even a shot at protecting it until we take the profit out of violating it.
Wealth returns to the 1 percent
The U.S. as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the recession but it's the rich that have scooped all the cash.
Are corporations too big to prosecute?
These are banks, and bankers, whose failure precipitated the financial crisis, and the succeeding depression and bailouts. There have been bailouts, but, so far, no prosecutions of the CEO's.
Labor Department: much more to be done on job safety
The Labor Department's Inspector General is still finding holes in enforcement programs of the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Post-election, secretive Republican front group exposed
Shrouded in secrecy, hundreds of right-wing Republican state lawmakers joined powerful corporate executives and lobbyists in Washington D.C yesterday.
Disney, big biz, fight Florida sick-time measure
Progressive forces here have put a ballot initiative mandating paid sick time onto the Nov. 6 ballot. Disney World and other interests are going all-out to block it.
Protesters demand GE pay its taxes
Chanting "GE, pay your taxes," several thousand rallied in downtown Detroit this morning, the site of the GE annual shareholders meeting.
CitiGroup stockholders nix CEO’s $25 million as MoveOn pickets meet
MoveOn members picketed a Citigroup stockholders meeting taking place at a local luxury hotel here April 17, designated Tax the 1% Day.
Interest rate swaps wreak havoc around the country
Like many states and local governments around the country, Oakland is being victimized by the banking industry.
Movement to end corporate personhood grows
Overturning corporate personhood is a key legislative goal of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
