Helmsley and the ‘Little People’
America needs a tax system that meets our needs to pay for good schools along with safe and dependable infrastructure.
Corporate Campaign Spending: They Get What They Pay for
For America’s corporations, it pays to get involved in elections. This might be good for business, but it’s bad for politics.
Corporations Commit Atrocities, My Friend
The Supreme Court is weighing a case with major ramifications for corporate accountability.
Stealing From The Mouth of Public Education to Feed the Prison Industrial Complex
We are witnessing a systemic recasting of education priorities that gives official structure and permanence to a preexisting underclass comprised largely of criminalized poor black and brown people.
Planned Parenthood
If your corporation wrecks the environment, that’s none of our business.
Amazon Watch Spring Green-Bag Lunch Series
Want to learn about how big corporations are taking Latin America to court? IPS Associate Fellow Manuel Pérez Rocha will address extractive corporations suing Latin American countries in International Tribunals at Amazon Watch’s Spring 2012 “Green-Bag Lunch” Series in Washington, DC.
Tax-Haven Abuse Film Hits the Fast Lane
“We’re Not Broke,” the new documentary about tax-dodging corporations, premiered at Sundance.
What I’m Giving Up in 2012
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
51 Years Later: Fulfilling The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
January 17, 2012 is the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba by the United States and Belgium in cahoots with select Congolese elites. Congolese and friends of the Congo throughout the globe commemorate Lumumba’s assassination each year to bring attention to the Congolese people’s pursuit of freedom and liberation in the heart of Africa. Since the assassination of Lumumba the foreign multi-national corporations of the 1% profit from the plundering of the Congo’s abundant mineral resources and are complicit in the super-exploitation of Congolese labor. They are also the underlying engine of the violent conflict in the country. Join us for a day of demonstration, film screening and teach-in on the current crisis in the Congo and how you can join the global movement in support of self-determination in the heart of Africa.
For the Corporate 1 Percenters, a 50 Percent Tax Discount
Corporations have achieved total tax loophole parity with America’s individual super rich.
Food System Pays Dearly as Wall Street Occupies Washington
It’s nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn’t been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists.
How Corporations Built to Loot Lobby to Win
With a small army of lobbyists, WIN America corporations twist politicians into giving them tax breaks that hurt the rest of us.
WIN America Coalition Seeks to Pad Pockets with “Tax Holiday”
Tax holiday proponents have delivered losses to American workers.
Job Destroyers Don’t Deserve a Tax Holiday
When thinks tanks from the left and the right agree on something, Congress should pay attention.
Mitt Romney Believes in Corporate America
He chooses to ignore that even as corporate profits soar and the rich get richer, unemployment remains high and millions of Americans are tumbling from the middle class into poverty.