Water is Not for Sale: A Look at Italy’s Water Movement
In Italy, and across the world, local water must be administered for the common good of the community – il bene comune – and not treated as a market commodity.
Offshoring America’s Legal Jobs
Lawyering has become the latest category of good jobs disappearing from our Land of the Free.
Author Event: The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind America’s Favorite Soft Drink
The Coke Machine takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they’ll go to stay there.
Ever since its “I’d like to teach the world to sing” commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world’s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and “Coca-Cola” the world’s second- most recognized word after “hello.” However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world’s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.
No Message on the Bottle
Bottlers need to label the source of their water and provide honest information on their bottles instead of making spurious marketing claims.
Multinational Shell Game Hurts Local Business
Tax havens create a fundamentally unlevel playing field between multinational corporations with overseas tax havens and local Main Street businesses.
GOP Goes ‘Grassroots,’ Washington-Style
Republicans convene corporate lobbyists to seek supposedly bold new ideas.
Corporate Negligence by any Other Name
Resurrecting the Amoco brand would be just a cynical ploy at a time when we need to move forcefully into a new economy that doesn’t ravage the environment.
Franken v. Roberts
Sen. Al Franken is shaking up the Washington establishment on behalf of regular folks.
Corporate Social Irresponsibility
BP must come clean, both literally and figuratively.
GM Crashes Chevy
Why would the automaker stomp on its own success?
BP’s Ethics
Voluntary corporate codes of conduct are like lipstick on a pig.
How to Get Politicians to Admit in Public That the Drug War Has Been a Complete Failure
We do not need yet another blue ribbon commission or academic study to tell us our current policies are not working.
Turning Points: Israel Caves Under Flotilla Pressure
Civil society has had some success in the wake of the flotilla attack.
Comcast-NBC Merger Is a Bad Deal
The proposed merger threatens competition and innovation.
The Danger of Invisible Corporate Power
It may take several election cycles to scrub corporate influence and control from our political system.