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Robert Weissman
Robert Weissman is the president of Public Citizen. Weissman was formerly director of Essential Action, editor of Multinational Monitor, a magazine that tracks corporate actions worldwide, and a public interest attorney at the Center for Study of Responsive Law. He was a leader in organizing the 2000 IMF and World Bank protests in D.C. and helped make HIV drugs available to the developing world.
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Views Saturday, August 12, 2017 Despite White House Chaos, Trump Delivers Favors for Corporate America The Trump administration may be dazed and confused about many things, but not about its corporate agenda . From Scaramucci to Spicer, from Kelly to Kushner, one thing doesn’t change at Donald Trump’s chaotic White House: Its devotion to delivering for giant corporations at the public’s expense... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 18, 2017 How Trump the Populist Became Trump the Corporate Shill Just before his inauguration six months ago, Donald Trump said in a news conference that pharmaceutical companies are "getting away with murder." Trump correctly noted that "we're the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don't bid properly" because of a law that bars the government from... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 12, 2017 Tough Guy Sessions: Shameful and Stupid on Street Crime, Soft on Corporate Crime Tough Guy Attorney General Jeff Session has announced that federal prosecutors will charge low-level drug offenders and others with the most serious crimes possible, despite overwhelming evidence and a bipartisan agreement that this approach is racially discriminatory and counterproductive. "The... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 24, 2017 President Trump’s Corporate Government We’re 100 days into Corporate Government. While giant corporations have for decades and on a bipartisan basis exerted far too much influence over government decision-making, we’ve never seen anything like the Trump administration. The key officials in the federal government, starting with the... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 20, 2017 The For-Profit Presidency, Month One One month into the Trump administration, and it’s clear that there has been a wholesale corporate takeover of the government A day-by-day review of the administration’s first month shows that virtually every day there has been a new, extraordinary grant of power to corporate interests and/or... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 10, 2017 The Existential Threat of Trump’s Corporate Cabinet We’re facing the prospect of a government literally of the Exxons, by the Goldman Sachses and for the Kochs. President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet and top nominees draw more deeply from an extremist faction of the corporate class than any in memory, and likely in history. We are witnessing the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 29, 2016 What Populism? Trump's America Is Party Time for the Corporate Elite “Trump has converted the GOP into a populist working-class party,” Trump advisor and far-right economist Stephen Moore told Republican members of Congress at a caucus meeting. Well, advisor Moore, meet the Trump transition team. "We are witnessing not a populist, working class revolution, but the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 30, 2016 EpiPen Maker's Latest Offer: Still Not Good Enough Not good enough. Mylan's public relations people should tell the company that drip, drip, drip responses to the EpiPen rip-off will only further enrage the public. It's not enough to blame insurance companies, it's not enough to offer coupons, and it's not enough to offer an overpriced generic... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 29, 2016 So How Many VW Executives Are Going to Jail Exactly? Note: Volkswagen has reportedly agreed to pay roughly $15 billion in compensation to car owners and civil penalties to settle its U.S. emissions scandal case. The terms of the settlement were announced Tuesday. In 2015, the automaker admitted that 11 million of its vehicles worldwide had software... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 11, 2016 Americans Agree: It’s Corporate Power That’s In Our Way There is widespread recognition among politicians and pundits that Americans are sharply divided by party on virtually all of the big questions facing our country. Everyone knows this is just the way things are, and it’s why we have gridlock in Congress. But here’s one thing: That story is not true... Read more |