- 05/30/2001
-Tough company
Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting empl
... > read more - 01/15/2002
-GREENS OPPOSE FCC DEREGULATION
FCC scheme to allow media monopolies would damage the American public's access to open and diverse news, information, and entert ... > read more - 01/22/2002
-Enron Got Its Money's Worth
One of the major falsehoods being bandied about by apologists for the Bush administration is that while Enron may have bankrolled ... > read more - 02/06/2002
-Nader Had It Right All Along
IF ONE political figure looks prophetic these days, it is Ralph Nader.
The Enron collapse is having a ripple effect on ... > read more - 02/08/2002
-Enron? Nader Is Glad You Asked
Why, yes, Ralph Nader would be delighted to discuss the Enron scandal. But don't expect the once and possibly future presidential ... > read more - 02/23/2002
-Bush Mimics Reagan and the Corporate Stranglehold on U.S. Media Tightens
Bush rallies America in a perpetual war against "evil ones" and the "axis of evil." Ronald Reagan used the cold war to lambast the ... > read more - 03/23/2002
-The Great Florida Ex-Con Game
How the “felon” voter-purge was itself felonious
In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed ... > read more - 04/22/2002
-The California Clean Money Campaign
Writing in the Nation, November 19, 2001, Bill Moyers said "the soul of democracy has been dying, drowning in a rising tide of bi ... > read more - 04/23/2002
-Flexing the Power of the Press
Kristina Borjesson never expected to write an exposé of the business she'd devoted her life to. A 20-year veteran of mainstream jo ... > read more - 04/24/2002
-Taxpayers, Environmentalist to Davis:'Save the Surplus, Cut Polluting Programs'
New Report Exposes $23 Billion In Wasteful State Programs that Harm Environment
SAN FRANCISCO -- A coalition of t ... > read more - 05/01/2002
-News-Rack Law Again Delayed
Supervisors Look for Ways to Void Deal with Media Giant
With some members expressing concern over signing a 20-year contract with a notorious media giant, the San Francisco Board of Supe ... > read more - 05/04/2002
-How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Bullying people from your town to China
Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to matching the pow ... > read more - 05/14/2002
-BioDemocracy News
Exposing Biotech's Big Lies
Frankenfoods: Beginning or End of the Biotech Century?
Lies and Damn Lies on the Biotech Front
The Big Lie: Biotech Foo ... > read more - 05/14/2002
-The Fake Persuaders
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet
Persuasion works best when it's ... > read more - 06/01/2002
-National Health Insurance
Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending
FEW WOULD dispute that our health care system is deeply troubled.
Thirty-nine million Americans are completely uninsured ... > read more - 06/17/2002
-Questions for Ralph Nader
Give Them the Business
Q. Following Enron's collapse, you vowed to make the phrase ''corporate reform'' ring throughout our land. Yet the public seems to ... > read more - 06/18/2002
-Guerrilla of the Week
Corporate raider Ralph Nader is back, making sense of the so-called "corporate crime wave":
What Business Week magazine ... > read more - 06/21/2002
-New Studies Confirm Dangers of Atrazine, a Widely Used Agricultural Weed-Killer
NRDC calls for investigation of possible cover-up by atrazine manufacturer.
It's the nation's most widely used weed-k ... > read more - 06/26/2002
-A World(Com) of Hurt Biggest Yet
Bush Coddles Corp. Evildoers
Goooooood morning America! It's fraud at WorldCom that tops corporate war news today. Early reports indicate that investor losses ... > read more - 06/26/2002
-Bush Overplays the Terror Card
It's 'Unpatriotic' to Say That Corrupt Business is Ruining Our Economy
Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman Circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures o ... > read more - 07/08/2002
-Nader wants renewed probe of Bush stock sale
WASHINGTON (CNN) --Consumer advocate Ralph Nader Friday called on the Securities & Exchange Commission to reopen its investigation ... > read more - 07/09/2002
-Greens to Bush: Obey the Nation's Laws
On the eve of the party's Midterm Convention (July 18-21 in Philadelphia), Greens warn of damage to rights, security, and the econ ... > read more - 07/11/2002
-Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith
Just about every politician and pundit is eager to denounce wrongdoing in business these days. Sinners have defiled the holy que ... > read more - 07/12/2002
-The Insider Game
The current crisis in American capitalism isn't just about the specific details — about tricky accounting, stock options, loans to ... > read more - 07/14/2002
-America's Insider President
Despite yesterday's half-hearted rhetoric, the reality is Bush owes his wealth, and office, to exactly the kind of corporate shena ... > read more - 07/16/2002
-Simon's Tax-Shelter Gains Draw Criticism
IRS Says Firm's Action Led To Artificial Losses
SACRAMENTO -- Bill Simon and his family investment firm benefited from tax shelters the IRS has alleged in court may be illegal. ... > read more - 07/16/2002
-George and Dick's Amazing Corporate Misadventures
Some of the accounting practices that brought Enron down were pioneered by Harken Energy, while GW Bush was the CEO. Will the late ... > read more - 07/19/2002
-SF Chronicle Blantantly Ignores Green for Governor, Despite Polling at 5%
The SF Chronicle again makes the conscious decision to pretend that third-party candidates do not exist. Despite the fact that Pet ... > read more - 07/20/2002
-Green -- and Other Shades of View
Our editorial Friday on the shortcomings of the two major-party gubernatorial candidates, "Don't follow my money," generated stron ... > read more - 07/22/2002
-Corporate Scandals May Help Greens Party to Run in 39 States
PHILADELPHIA -- Two years after its warnings about corporate greed helped decide the outcome of the presidential race, the Green P ... > read more - 07/25/2002
-'Corporate Socialism'
The relentless expansion of corporate control over our political economy has proven nearly immune to daily reporting by the mainst ... > read more - 07/25/2002
-Amid corporate meltdown, Nader revives an old sermon
Ralph Nader's never been one to doubt himself. So he's not surprised that he can now say he told us so.
Two years ago, ... > read more - 07/29/2002
-Bush-Cheney White House Obstructs Halliburton Lawsuit
"No one is above the law" That is the slogan of Judicial Watch, the dogged legal watchdog group that “investigates and prosecutes ... > read more - 08/01/2002
-10 Questions for Ralph Nader
For almost four decades, Ralph Nader has been the scold of corporate America. Now the man and the moment have merged as America re ... > read more - 08/02/2002
-A Failure of Democracy, Not Capitalism
Congress passed sweeping legislation to reform corporate conduct and governance last week, and President Bush has pledged to sign ... > read more - 08/02/2002
-Gonzalez Tackles Corporate Ownership
I think it's great to see Matt Gonzalez taking on the despicable world of corporate ownership. His move to limit the re-naming o ... > read more - 10/12/2002
-Nader Lashes Bush Policy
President Bush should abandon his "one-track, monomaniacal" focus on war with Iraq and concentrate instead on America and domestic ... > read more - 12/03/2002
-PG&E Campaign Missed Deadline On $800,000 In Donations
Lawyers for the Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s successful campaign to thwart a public-power measure failed to report $800,000 in uti ... > read more - 01/10/2003
-The Government's Air Passenger Blacklist
Barbara Olshansky was in a Newark International Airport departure gate last March when an airline agent at the counter checking ... > read more - 01/14/2003
-Wages Stolen from Adidas and Reebok Workers
Over 200 employees of Bed and Bath Prestige, an apparel manufacturer located in Thailand, are owed close to US$375,000 in back pay ... > read more - 02/06/2003
-Does This President Actually Believe His Own Words?
AUSTIN, Texas -- "We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations."
� ... > read more - 05/11/2003
-Snapshots of Our Economy and Politics
This is a column of tidbits -- to be sure, important tidbits. I think they are part of a mosaic of our times. But I'll let you dec ... > read more - 07/04/2003
-Democrats, Republicans Awash In Funds From Corporate Criminals, Report Finds
WASHINGTON - July 3 - Thirty-one corporate criminals gave more than $9 million to the Democratic and Republican parties during the ... > read more - 01/15/2004
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S.F. City Attorney Probes Campaign Charge by 9 Street Cleaners
Nine members of a city street-cleaning crew say a top official of the San Francisco Department of Public Works and supervisors of ... > read more - 11/18/2004
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UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count
Statistical Analysis - the Sole Method for Tracking E-Voting - Shows Irregularities May Have Awarded 130,000 - 260,000 or More Exc ... > read more
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