Corporatism

Coke to Bring You Advice About Health and Soft Drinks

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:39:21 -0500

by Lindsey Tanner

CHICAGO - Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.

The American Academy of Family Physicians has prompted outcry and lost members over its new six-figure alliance with the Coca-Cola Co. The deal will fund educational materials about soft drinks for the academy's consumer health and wellness Web site, http://www.FamilyDoctor.org.

Centrist Democrats = Corporate Sellouts

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:55:23 -0400

by Ari Berman

Every time I hear about Joe Lieberman's latest apostasy, I think, Oy vey! There he goes again. More Joementum.

A Corporate Monster v. 'The Vermonster'

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:00:17 -0400

by Jim Hightower

Where are those lawsuit abuse groups when you really need them?

A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:12:09 -0400

by Chris Hedges

We can join Bill McKibben on Oct. 24 in nationwide protests over rising carbon emissions. We can cut our consumption of fossil fuels. We can use less water. We can banish plastic bags. We can install compact fluorescent light bulbs. We can compost in our backyard.

Putting People Before Profit

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:58:44 -0400

by Alistair Alexander

At noon tomorrow thousands of activists will swoop on London for this summer's Climate Camp.

The Corporate Person Without a Country: AIG Spits in America's Eye, Again

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:51:46 -0400

by Brian Donohue

Robert Benmosche is a veteran of the corporate wars and the insurance industry's greed-fest. The former MetLife exec is now the new CEO of the beleaguered AIG, and recently he held an employee town hall to introduce himself to the troops.

The Best Interests of the Corporation

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:24:47 -0400

by Robert C. Hinkley

Every day legal corporate behavior causes much more damage to the commons than corporate illegal behavior. Electricity generators do not break the law when they emit billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year warming the Earth to dangerous levels. No law is broken when automobile manufacturers put out millions of vehicles that contribute to the same problem. Tobacco companies do not break the law when their products kill nearly 5 million people a year. Consumer goods companies are within the law when they buy from third world suppliers who operate sw

Weight of Government’s Hand on Capitalism’s Scale

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:01:42 -0400

by John Buell

To advocate a new, robust stimulus package, as in my last column, invites some predictable comments. Government is inefficient, politically motivated in its choice of winners and losers, and out to pad its own wallets.

The 'Anti-Starbucks' Starbucks

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:14:45 -0400

by Jim Hightower

There's a joke going around that Starbucks has so saturated the coffee market that it is now opening new Starbucks stores inside its old stores.

Well, not quite — not yet — but the corporate coffee colossus is presently trying to expand through an equally bizarre marketing strategy: By disowning its globally ubiquitous brand name.

Seeing Through Industrial Food’s 'Personal Responsibility' Smoke Screen

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:59:08 -0400

by Rob Smart

I grew up in a home where family meals were the norm. Nearly every night, nine of us would crowd around the kitchen table to enjoy a home-cooked meal together, recount our days, laugh and argue, celebrating each unique personality's contribution to the whole. Each meal made the fabric of our family stronger. Those experiences have stayed with me as I've grown and started a family of my own, where I happily continue the tradition of sitting down together nightly to share a meal and exchange stories.