We’ve gotten so inured to this kind of corporate power that the report received relatively little coverage. The influence of the oil industry is essentially undiminished, even now.

Corporations are responsible for lawbreaking and murder on a scale that Jeffrey Dahmer couldn’t have imagined.

‘In the 1967 military coup d’état the choice of weapon used in order to bring down democracy then was the tanks. Well, this time it was the banks.'

Obamacare is a win for the 1 percent, and a loss for the rest of us.

Progressive voters are outraged by the assault on democracy, workers, the environment, and local communities entailed in the Trans Pacific Partnership. Conservative voters are outraged by the attack on national sovereignty... It is a short step from here to a recognition that the failures and burdens of our national government...

The entrapment in a world of nonstop electronic sounds and images, begun with the phonograph and radio, advanced by cinema and television and perfected by video games, the Internet and hand-held devices, is making it impossible to build relationships and structures that are vital for civic engagement and resistance to...

The proposed TPP was the latest in a series of deals that are mostly about the use of "trade" agreements to allow corporations to do end runs around national regulation.

History shows the very opposite of progress when it comes to these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations.

It’s a hidden upward redistribution from the majority of Americans to corporate executives and wealthy shareholders.

Given the costs of complying with the safety rule, Wall Street wanted to know how future investments might be impacted.