Protesters Richard Hanzel, left, Brendan Hutt, and Richard Shavzin, right, of the Screen Actors Guild, dressed as wall street bankers, march from Goldman Sachs' office to a rally in Federal Plaza demanding Wall Street reform, Wednesday, April 28, 2010, in Chicago.
Income Inequality

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.

by Bob Lord

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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Corporate Executives Can Now Be Prosecuted By The International Criminal Court

The court’s decision was sparked by a case filed by a group of Cambodians who alleged that authorities, including the government, military, police and the courts, have been complicit in land grabbing since 2002, which has led to the forced eviction of more than 300,000 people.

Corporate Executives Can Now Be Prosecuted By The International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court announced Thursday it will now hold corporate executives and governments legally responsible for environmental crimes. The Hague court made explicit references to widening its approach to include land grabbing, which has allowed private corporations, with the help of governments, to take over large areas of

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Forget Panama: Why Corporations And The Rich Love US Tax Havens

Both Panama and the U.S. have refused to sign a treaty that requires the sharing of financial information with other countries, making both nations attractive to wealthy people and businesses eager to hide their earnings.

Forget Panama: Why Corporations And The Rich Love US Tax Havens

AUSTIN, Texas --- The Panama Papers, a massive leak of secret financial data relating to the use of overseas tax havens, cast an uncomfortable spotlight on many political figures and world governments. However, the 11.5 million documents contain few American

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Kit O'Connell

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.

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Americans Really Hate Citizens United, Poll Finds

The decision altered Washington almost overnight. It triggered an explosion in new super PACs—independent groups not directly affiliated with any campaign that are able to raise and spend as much as they want on any given campaign.

Americans Really Hate Citizens United, Poll Finds

Few Supreme Court decisions have changed American politics as drastically as 2010's Citizens United, which unleashed a torrent of cash into the political system. Fewer still prompted such a negative public reaction: A recent 

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