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As One of the Largest Bailouts in History Looms, “Crisis-Ridden” Corporations Reap Record Profits

Once again it appears that big business will get bailed out while the American people get sold out.

April 15th, 2020

As One of the Largest Bailouts in History Looms, “Crisis-Ridden” Corporations Reap Record Profits

Hospitals overflowing with sick and dying patients. Overworked staff risking their lives wearing garbage bags as makeshift protective equipment against an invisible but deadly virus. Refrigerated containers left outside medical facilities, filling with the dead. Mass graves being dug in the city. It is like something out of a horror movie. But it

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We’re All in This Together: A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream

America has been a warring nation—a military empire intent on occupation and conquest—for so long that perhaps we, the citizens of this warring nation, have forgotten what it means to live in peace, with the world and one another.

February 11th, 2020

By John Whitehead

We’re All in This Together: A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream

Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have to agree about most things. We don’t have to love each other. We don’t even have to like each other. And we certainly don’t need to think alike or dress alike or worship alike or vote alike or love alike. But if this experiment in freedom is to succeed—and there are some days the

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John Whitehead

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

Just How Bad Is Inequality at America’s Major Corporations?

Honeywell recently became the first corporation to report its CEO to worker pay ratio, an eye-popping 333 to 1.

March 08th, 2018

By Bob Lord

Just How Bad Is Inequality at America’s Major Corporations?

That America’s income distribution has grown dramatically more unequal in the past 40 years is beyond debate. The share of the top 1 percent has doubled since 1980, to over 20 percent of all income. Could it get any worse? A look at America’s large, privately held corporations suggests it could. When Americans think of large

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Bob Lord

Bob Lord is a veteran tax lawyer and former congressional candidate, practices and blogs in Phoenix, Arizona.

Trump’s Secretive ‘Deep Industry’ Teams Hired To Roll Back Regulations

Trump, who spent his business career on the other side of government regulations, has put an emphasis on cutting old rules.

July 11th, 2017

By Danielle Ivory and
Robert Faturechi

Trump’s Secretive ‘Deep Industry’ Teams Hired To Roll Back Regulations

President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks, he ordered his administration to assemble teams to aggressively scale back government regulations. But the effort 2014 a signature theme in Trump's populist campaign for the White House 2014 is being conducted in large part out of public view and often by political

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Trump’s Record Inaugural Earnings Were Powered By Billionaires And Corporations

Donald Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural festivities, documents filed with the Federal Election Commission show, and nearly doubled the record set by President Barack Obama eight years ago.

April 19th, 2017

By Associated Press

Trump’s Record Inaugural Earnings Were Powered By Billionaires And Corporations

WASHINGTON — Powered by billionaires and corporations, President Donald Trump raised $107 million for his inaugural festivities, documents filed with the Federal Election Commission show, and nearly doubled the record set by President Barack Obama eight years ago. After giving $5 million, Las Vegas gaming billionaire Sheldon

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Massive Corporations From Chiquita To Coca-Cola Used Personal Armies To Uproot, Terrorize Colombians

‘Chiquita admitted to paying paramilitaries and giving them 3,000 Kalashnikov rifles between 1997 and 2004,’ Dan Kovalik, a human rights lawyer, notes in an interview with MintPress News.

December 06th, 2016

By Kit O'Connell Kit O'Connell @KitOConnell

Massive Corporations From Chiquita To Coca-Cola Used Personal Armies To Uproot, Terrorize Colombians

AUSTIN, Texas --- On Thursday, Colombia’s Congress ratified a new peace accord that could end decades of civil war and weaken the ability of foreign corporations to turn a profit on unrest in the South American country. Since the 1960s, communist rebel forces have fought right-wing paramilitary groups and their government allies in Colombia’s

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Kit O'Connell

A gonzo journalist from Austin, Texas and Staff Writer for MintPress News, Kit O'Connell's writing has also appeared at Truthout, the Texas Observer, and The Establishment.

Lee Camp: America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another

Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily?

As One of the Largest Bailouts in History Looms, “Crisis-Ridden” Corporations Reap Record Profits