A disturbing trend is that both nationally and worldwide corporations are taxed less, able to move money outside the country where it is made, less subject to laws, less subject to disclosure, and dramatically contributing towards an unequal society. Both major parties eagerly contribute to this. The Supreme Court in a series of decisions without legal precedent - such as the 2010 Citizens United case, McCutcheon, Hobby Lobby and others – also speed this disastrous approach.
The reason I have so many references is to show this is a steadily increasing trend that I continuously update. It is not a vanishing blip on the radar. Failure to deal with this trend will have disastrous consequences for the future.
It is no wonder the Unified Platform lists Corporate Accountability/Reform as one of its goals. Making public comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is also one of the frequent activities of the New Progressive Alliance. The big picture includes corporate overreach, the Economy, Election Reform, Infrastructure, Labor, and Transparency. The Unified Platform correctly says we must reduce the economic and political clout of corporations, improve corporate citizenship, increase executive responsibility, and require corporations to serve society and democracy while safeguarding the environment.
Improved tax and regulation compliance, enhanced shareholder democracy and governance, and the abolition of corporate personhood will help us reach these goals.
We must also:
• Change corporate charters to reflect a “triple bottom line” orientation that measures social and ecological performance in addition to financial performance. Social responsibility requirements should be comprehensive, strict, and enforceable. Corporations that routinely violate their charters should face dissolution.
• Enforce and expand anti-trust laws at all levels.
• Increase legal jurisdiction over multinational for-profit entities, in accordance with the UN’s evolving “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.”
References:
1-Economy
5- Labor
6- Transparency
8- The Super Rich Are Richer Than We Thought, Hiding Huge Sums, New Reports Find
10- The Poisons of Extreme Wealth and Inequality
11- Unglamorous End Of Largest Corporate Profit Bubble In History
13- The $10 Trillion Heist - The Great Corporate Tax Shift
14-Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
15-10 Supreme Court Rulings — Before ‘Hobby Lobby’ — That Turned Corporations Into People
17-Corporations Have Their Cake and Eat It Too, Then Deny Cake's Existence
18-Corporations Rewriting U.S. Labour Laws
19-The Age of Impunity - An Exceptional Decline for an Exceptional Country? The Empire as a basket Case
20-More Than $6.5 Trillion Lost in US Income Due to Tax Cuts for the Rich
21-Full Show: Is the Supreme Court Out of Order?
22-Gutless: SEC Can Require Corporations to Disclose Big Political Contributions, But Won't
23-NEW STUDY: CORPORATE BOARDS EXCEEDING OVERSIGHT REQUIREMENTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
24-Legalized Bribery: Citizens United is ruining democracy. Here's how to get it back.
25-The Creeping Expansion of Corporate Civil Rights
26-The SEC's just been caught colluding with the banks it's supposed to regulate
29-What Companies Don't Want You to Know About the Millions They Spend
31-'Huge Number' of Tax-Dodging Corporations Preparing to Expatriate
32-A Simplified Way to Tax Multinational Corporations
34-Corporations Have Found Yet Another (Secret) Way To Help Get Politicians Elected
35-Political Spending Disclosure Rules: Corporations vs. Unions
36-Don’t Be Fooled: Banks Still Too Big to Fail
38-Whose Presidential Campaign Will Your Pension Finance?
39-For Freedom Industries, a Small Price to Pay for Poisoning West Virginia Water
41-Lobbyists Are Seeking to Delay for Years a Key Piece of Bank Regulation
43-Chris Hedges - America Is Slowly Crumbling
45-Robert Reich: How Much Does Society Gain From Hedge Fund Managers?
46-Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
47-The SEC should shine a light on dark political donations from corporations - Transparency now!
48-These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
49-What You Don't Know May Well Hurt You -- Dark Money
50-How Corporate America Shut the Courthouse Doors to Average People
51-Health Insurance CEO Compensation
53-Democrats’ Dark Money Group Holds Secretive Meeting With Fracking Industry
54-Detroit Cuts Off Water To Poor People BUT Not Delinquent Businesses!
55-Detroit Shuts Off Water to Residents but Not to Businesses Who Owe Millions
56-Private Water Companies Come to Texas Bringing Soaring Rates, Little Recourse for Consumers
57-Detroit Water Crisis is a Prelude to the Privatization of Water (video and comments)
58-Wall Street Mega-Banks Are Buying Up The World’s Water
59-The Corporate Global Privatizing Complex
60-Wall Street’s Buying the World’s Water Supply at an Alarming Pace
61-Microsoft Admits Keeping $92 Billion Offshore to Avoid Paying $29 Billion in US Taxes
62-Common Core is Just the Latest of the Billionaire Scams
63-Ferguson, the Foreclosure Crisis and America’s Hedge-Fund Landlords
65-Here’s Why Bank of America’s $17 Billion Settlement Probably Won’t Cost It That Much
66-Legislators, Corporations Gather For Secret Meeting Against Clean Energy And You’re Not Invited
67-Now Burger King is Renouncing Its US Citizenship – Let’s Eat Somewhere Else
68-Obama’s Latest Betrayal of America and Americans in Favor of the Big Banks: TISA
69-Rail CEOs to Investors: “Bomb Trains” Safe At Almost Any Speed
70-The Road to Serfdom: American Feudalism Comes to Detroit
71-The Way to Stop Corporate Lawbreaking is to Prosecute the People Who Break the Law
72-Corporate Internet Providers Threaten Net Neutrality
73-Bankers Back on Wall Street Despite Major Crimes
74-At Last: Jury Blames Bank Execs for Mortgage Fraud
78-How Rich Old White Men Are Taking Lunch Money Away From Inner-City Black Kids
79-Rising Inequality Means More Volatility for State Budgets
80-Why Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn’t
81-Congress Cut $8.7 Billion in Food Stamps in Same Year We’ll Spend $22 Billion to Fight Islamic State
82-Wealthy Donors and Corporations Set Think Tanks’ Agendas
85-In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got a Mining Company What It Wanted
86-Greece: "This destruction of workers’ lives serves the bankers"
87-Groups Call on eBay to Quit ALEC
88-Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash
89-Full Show: Too Big to Jail?
90-Playing God
92-The Top Five Bank Bailouts We Never Heard About
94-The Waltons Keep Getting Richer While Wal-Mart Workers Barely Scrape By
95-Too Big Has Failed – and Wall Street is Teetering Once More Toward Collapse
100-Here’s What Happens When We Lower Corporate Tax Rates
101-Midwife Attacked for Asking Why Babies Are Dying in Oil Boomtown
102-Piketty: 'The Myth Of National Sovereignty Helps Big Corporations Screw Us Over'
105-The American Labor Movement, 2.0
106-An Economist Identified the Corporate Behavior That Led to Our Staggering Inequality
109-Big Business Crushed Ballot Measures in 2014
110-States Consider Requiring Shareholder Approval for Political Gifts
111-How US Companies Stash Billions Overseas — Tax-Free
112-NY Federal judge slams Wells Fargo for forged mortgage docs
113-The Middle Class Can’t Be Saved Unless Wall Street Is Tamed
114-Sunday’s ‘Biggest Banking Leak in History’ Details the Names and Dealings of Mega-Rich Tax Dodgers
115-The Koch Brothers Raised $249 Million at Their Latest Donor Summit
116-These Five Corporations Are Making Millions From Mass Incarceration
117-8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
118-Chris Hedges - The Pathology of The Super Rich
119-The Biggest Outrage in Atlanta’s Crazy Teacher Cheating Case
120-First Amendment, ‘Patron Saint’ of Protesters, Is Embraced by Corporations
121-Noam Chomsky: Corporations, not leftist academics, enforce politically correct limits on speech
123-Entitlements are Bankrupting America. But the Rich Keep Taking Them.
124-Off the Deep End: The Wall Street Bonus Pool and Low-Wage Workers
128-New Report: Big Banks Require Tellers to Use Predatory Practices
129-How Wall Street Used Swaps to Get Rich at the Expense of Cities
130-Jeb Bush Funneled Almost $2 Billion in FL Pension Funds to Brother's 'Pioneer' Donors
131-The SEC’s Andrew Bowden: A Regulator for Sale?
132-Chicago Teacher Pension Money Invested With Rahm Emanuel's Friends and Donors
133-Employers cut jobs in 31 US states as growth slows
134-House Passes Bill that Prohibits Expert Scientific Advice to the EPA
135-In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth
136-Tomgram: Michael Klare, Is Big Oil Finally Entering a Climate Change World?
137-Drought-Stricken California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions
138-Nestlé's permit to pump California springwater expired decades ago
139-"Carbon Copy": How Big Oil and King Coal Ghost Write Letters for Public Officials, Business Groups
140-How Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money
141-Living the High Life After Congress
142-The Looming Pay-to-Play Problem - Brennan School of Justice at New York University School of Law, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
145-The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
146-Corporate Media Blacks Out Coverage of Bill to Overturn Corporate Personhood
147-Wyoming Makes It A Crime To Collect Evidence Of Pollution On Public Lands
148-In Wyoming it’s now illegal to collect data about pollution
149-Another Massive Citibank Billion Dollar Theft From Consumers and NO ONE GOES TO JAIL
150-Only Obama and Wall Street Criminals will Love Loretta Lynch as AG
154-Shell Promises Climate Risk Disclosure to Shareholders, but What About Its Political Spending?
155-The Growing Trend of ‘Anticipatory Bribery’
156-This Is How Little It Cost Goldman To Bribe America's Senators To Fast Track Obama's TPP Bill
157-Sports Owners Dip Into the Public’s Purse, Despite Their Billions in the Bank
158-Why Do Political Reporters Refuse to Show Us the Money?
159-Clinton’s Updated Tammany Hall—Destroying Democracy and Climate Too?
160-Treasury Report Shows Biggest Threat to U.S. Is on Wall Street
161-Greenpeace Sting Shows Academics Selling Themselves To Polluters
162-Justice Ginsburg’s Ominous Warning About Creeping Corporate Power
164-Morning Reads: ALL the Oil Companies Knew About Climate Change — Decades Ago
165--5 Horrible Things Congress Just Snuck Into Law
168-Cheney's Halliburton Suing The Cancer-Stricken Iraq War Vets They Poisoned
169-City spent $1 million trying to fire this teacher — and failed
170-Equal Justice?
171-Regulators: Wells Fargo, Chase, U.S. Bank still fail mortgage service tests
172-Obama Instituted the ‘Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History’ to the 1%
173-1% Still Beating The Crap Out Of The Tax Code
177-The greatest trick the rich ever pulled was making us believe they pay all the taxes
178-Emergency for Democracy: Unelected Manager Who Caused Flint Water Crisis Now Runs Detroit Schools
183-What do you give executives who bankrupted a coal company and screwed over its retirees? Bonuses!
184-Feds object to bankrupt coal company's $11.9M in executive bonuses
185-Proposal by bankrupt Alpha Natural Resources to pay executives big bonuses draws objections
186-How the Oil Industry Conquered Medicine, Finance and Agriculture
187-If I was right, why was I fired?
188-The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water
189-Hillary Clinton Doing Finance Industry Fundraiser Just Before Iowa
190-Flint Water Crisis: Contractors Made Millions on Switch
193-Did Net Neutrality Kill Broadband Investment Like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Said It Would?
194-Why AT&T's attempt to kill municipal broadband in Tenn. matters to all Americans
196-Microsoft has $108 billion in income offshore
197-Obama’s Justice Department Likes Criminally Prosecuting People, But Not Corporations
199-San Francisco just learned the cost of doing the NFL a favor
200-The Core of Wall Street Is Rotten
201-The Real Terrorists: The .01%
202-Wal-Mart: It Came, It Conquered, Now It's Packing Up and Leaving
203-Wall Street Taking Over Nonprofit Sector
204-Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, American War Crimes, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
205-An Idiot’s Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
206-The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions
207-How Money in Politics Is Killing Rooftop Solar in Nevada
208-Hundreds of Wall Street Execs Went to Prison During the Last Fraud-Fueled Bank Crisis
209-meme on bankruptcy for students and corporations
210-The Corruption In The U.S. Has Reached Insane Levels – Dave Kranzler
211-More unemployment and less security « Systemic Disorder
213-Minnesota: A wholly owned subsidiary of Xcel Energy? #1 in a series. | alanmuller.com
214-Utilities Just Declared War On Solar | OilPrice.com
215-Kentucky's top climate official sent packing
216-The FDA now officially belongs to Big Pharma - Salon.com
218-meme on corporate overreach-Facebook
219-meme on corporate taxes- Facebook
220-New Book Exposes Koch Brothers' Guide To Infiltrating The Media | Blog | Media Matters for America
221-‘Panama Papers’ Demonstrates Global Wealth Corruption
222-Democrats and Republicans Are Quietly Planning a Corporate Giveaway — to the Tune of $400 Billion
224-Clinton/Obama pushed Panama trade deal that now houses $13 Trillion in Tax Havens for filthy rich
225-BRICS Under Attack: The Empire’s Destabilizing Hand Reaches Into South Africa
226-Corporations are people, except when it comes time to go to jail
227-Concentrated Power Drives Extreme Income Inequality and Slows Economic Growth
228-Panama Papers: why tax havens matter, in one chart
231-Freedom Rider: The Panama Papers Problem
232-Carrier Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, of Global Trade
233-Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime
234-Our Tax Money Underwrites BP's Gulf Negligence
235-Porter Ranch CEO got a $3 million bonus after a massive natural gas leak
236-Nestle is Pumping Millions of Gallons from the Great Lakes for Free While Flint Pays For Poison
238-A top haven for tax cheats that may surprise you: the US
239-D.C. regulators green-light Pepco-Exelon merger, creating largest utility in the nation
240-FBI, DOJ Launch Probe of Unaoil, After Exposé Shows Global Corruption
241-Federal Corruption Prosecutions Plummet Under Barack Obama
242-Five Myths About the Koch Brothers — And Why It Matters To Set Them Straight
243-Why the US Chamber of Commerce is fighting transparency
245-On pardons, Obama could go down as one of the most merciless presidents in history
246-The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis
247-These 27 Major Companies Pay Zero in Taxes but Congress Wants to Give Them More
248-They Don’t Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned.
250-US State Department Unable to Explain Difference Between Panama & Snowden Revelations
251-Coal company paid its execs $8 million in bonuses just before filing for bankruptcy
253-Philanthropy: the capitalist art of deception
254-Banks Assert Constitutional Right to Billions in Subsidies
255-Big banks driving hotter climate
256-Big Banks Betting Against Climate Change Policies, Spending Billions On Fossil Fuel Projects: Report
257-How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
262-Corporations Running the World Used To Be Science Fiction - Now It's a Reality.
263-Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer Says Top Priority for Next Year Is Giant Corporate Tax Cut
265-Supervisor Of "Massive Fraud" At Wells Fargo Leaves Bank With $125 Million Bonus
267-Why Obama Won’t Help Foreclosure Victims
268-WikiLeaks: Citigroup Exec Gave Obama Recommendation of Hillary for State, Eric Holder for DOJ
270-U.S. companies are saving $100 billion a year by shifting profits overseas, report says
273-Wall Street Firms Make Money From Teachers' Pensions — And Fund Charter Schools Fight
274-Confidential Documents Show Fossil Fuel Industry Plotted With GOP AGs to Attack Clean Power Plan
275-Federal Agency Busted in Elaborate Scheme to Sell Native American Land to Corporations
277-Federal Bill Seeks First Native American Land Grab in 100 Years
278-Highest-Paid CEOs Actually Run Some of the Worst-Performing Companies
279-Hillary Clinton Privately Pitched Corporations on “Really Low” Tax Rate for Money Stashed Abroad
280-How Big Business Bailed Out the Nazis
282-Depriving rural areas of high speed internet
284-Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void
285-More Confessions of an Economic Hitman: This Time They’re Coming for Your Democracy
287-FOX 2 reporter placed in handcuffs for attempting to cover city meeting
288-Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing
290-The Biggest Companies in America Are Being Handed $27 for Every $1 They Pay in Taxes
293-Ultra-rich man’s letter: “To My Fellow Filthy Rich Americans: The Pitchforks Are Coming”
295-A new study shows how Exxon Mobil downplayed climate change when it knew the problem was real
296-Banks, bondholders driving the legal conflict over Flint’s water supply
298-How teachers, firemen and college endowments ended up enriching America's hedge fund billionaires
300-Exxon Mobil Misled Americans About Climate Change (Exxon is the largest oil producer in the U.S.)
301-Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions.
303-Big Pharma Firm Gets Slap on the Wrist for Medicaid Fraud
305-Human Connectedness and the Disconnected Power Elite of America
307-The Real Reason The Elites Keep Killing Single-Payer
309-How Corporations Have Taken Over Government, Nonprofit and Regulatory Agencies (Video) by Chris Hedges
310-Why Wall Street Should Be Viewed as a Major National Threat
313-How Haitian Earthquake Relief Efforts Pulled Off a Huge Con Job, with the Help of Mainstream Media
314-IMF admits disastrous love affair with the euro and apologises for the immolation of Greece
316-Robert Reich: On Labor, Tragically, Trump Was Right
319-'Paradise Papers' Reveal Tax Avoidance, Shady Dealings of World's Rich and Powerful
322-A perfect storm of corporate idiocy
323-Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members
325-The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017
326-Most ‘Wealth’ Isn’t the Result of Hard Work. It Has Been Accumulated by Being Idle and Unproductive.
327-Ralph Nader: How CEO Stock Buybacks Parasitize the Economy
328-Thanks To Lobbying, It's Illegal To Power Your Home With Solar Panels In Florida
329-Coca-Cola Sucks Wells Dry in Chiapas, Forcing Residents to Buy Water
330-Coke, Nestle Near Ownership of World’s Second Largest Aquifer
331-Equifax Is Bashed for Forcing Arbitration on Consumers After Data Breach
332-Journey to Victory in St. Petersburg! (YouTube)
333-Flint mayor diverted water-crisis money to political PAC, suit says
334-Goldman Sachs Trying to Kill Initiative Requiring More Lobbying Disclosure
336-Naomi Klein: how power profits from disaster
337-The House just passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill that’s brutal for poor people
339-Stiffing US Taxpayers on 'Grand Scale,' Fortune 500 Holding $2.6 Trillion Offshore
340-The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats
341-These Corporations Have the Biggest Influence on Climate Policy - Follow the money.
343-Millionaire Trump Adviser Says Americans Can 'Buy A New Car' With $1,000 Tax Cut
344-Why have we built a paradise for offshore billionaires?
345-WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
349-Contaminating the Courts: How Corporations Are Misusing the Constitution to Attack the Environment
350-Contaminating the Courts: How Corporations Are Misusing the Constitution to Attack the Environment
351-Kushner, Bannon, Flynn Pushed Huge Nuclear Power Deal in Middle East for Profit, In Secret
353-In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America
355-Coke, Nestle Near Ownership of World’s Second Largest Aquifer - A concerted push is underway in South America that could see the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water, soon fall into the hands of transnational corporations such as Coca-Cola and Nestle.
356-How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country
357-By Tripling Its Stock Buybacks, Apple Robs Workers And The Economy
358-Five Kinder Morgan executives can cash out millions in stock options and bonuses
359-How Hedge Fund Activists Prey on Companies When corporate raiders coopted “shareholder democracy” for their own ends.
360-Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers How more and more people are making money without contributing anything of value
361-Climate study ‘pulls punches’ to keep polluters on board
362-How the ultra-rich could save the world, if they wanted to, in 22 pictures and charts
363-As Sears Plunges Toward Chapter 11, Lampert Stands To Win, Whatever Happens
364-Wasting the Lehman Crisis: What Was Not Saved Was the Economy
365-Corporate and personal income tax as % of federal government tax receipts
366-Bankrupt Sears gets OK to pay executives millions in bonuses
367-Bill McKibben Calls FBI Tracking of Environmental Activists "Contemptible"
368-How Bronze Age Rulers Simply Canceled Debts - Clean Slate proclamations were part of the community’s self-preservation.
369-Tomgram: Nomi Prins, A World That Is the Property of the 1%
370-The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever
371-Why Wall Street Isn’t Useful for the Real Economy
372-Brexit-Loving Koch Acolytes Are Getting Rich Off Climate Change Denial in the UK
373-Justin Trudeau’s grand bargain with Big Oil exposed in Donald Gutstein's The Big Stall
374-Utilities Knew: Report Shows Power Industry Studied Climate Change, Stuck With Coal
375-The U.S. Has Slipped out of the Top 20 Countries in a Worldwide Corruption Index
376-Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits
377-Bill Gates Donates $15 Million to Campaign Pushing GMOs on Small Farmers Around the World
378-The Movement And The 2020 Elections
379-Exxon Asks SEC to Block Climate Pressure by Shareholders
380-Utility PAC donations rolled in ahead of solar industry bill fight
381-'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie - How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
382-Business Elites Unite with GOP/Dems to Outsource White-Collar U.S. Jobs
383-Climate Crisis Means the Ruling Class has Failed. Can the Working Class Inherit the Earth?
384-Banks Funneled $1.9 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Agreement
385-The Absurd Amount of Entitlements That Go to Rich People
386-Inextricably Linked: How Citizens United Halted Climate Action
389-Louisiana House to debate keeping industrial pollution reports secret
390-With deadline looming, charges recommended in Mount Polley mines disaster
391-How much does your ISP spend on lobbying?
392-It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity
393-Oil Lobbyist Touts Success in Effort to Criminalize Pipeline Protests, Leaked Recording Shows
394-Letter: Sweet deal for oil elite on Trans Mountain screws taxpayers
395-The Big Tech Investigations That Should Have Started in 2012
396-With help of Democrats, regulators move to gut ‘last line of defense’ against Wall Street gambling "We are barely a decade from the greatest fiasco of financial over-leveraging in history, and we are already unlearning its most obvious lessons."
397-Oilsands lobby speechless as government scientists point to higher pollution
398-Polluters hit by Oregon climate bill gave big. Koch Industries was one of the biggest.
399-Corporate Censorship Is a Serious, and Mostly Invisible, Threat to Publishing When states suppress ideas, we condemn it. What should we do when companies do the same?
400-Shell Workers Had To Attend Trump Speech To Be Paid, Were Ordered Not To Protest: Report They were instructed: “No yelling, shouting, protesting or anything viewed as resistance,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
402-Big businesses paying even less than expected under GOP tax law Though profits remain up and the economy is strong, total corporate taxes are at the lowest levels seen in more than 50 years.
403-What Greed has Done: Chris Hedges (YouTube)
405-Oil Companies Persuade States to Make Pipeline Protests a Felony
406-Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending The world would be richer and healthier if the full costs of fossil fuels were paid, according to a new report from the International Monetary Fund
407-The Corporate Takeover of Education
409-Americans slashed their charitable deductions by $54 billion after Republican tax-code overhaul
411-California commission finds PG&E falsified records for years
412-Banks to give $10 billion bailout to Boeing, nothing to the families of the dead
413-The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy
414-Fed Massively Tapered QE-4. Hasn’t Bought Any Junk Bonds, Was Just Jawboning
415-New Report Confirms Just How Shitty US Workers Have It - Compared to other rich nations, the U.S. offers very little in the way of vacation time, parental leave, or unemployment benefits.
416-US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits.
417-US billionaires pay lower tax rate than working class for first time in history - Richest 400 families paid tax at rate 1.2 per cent less than bottom half of American households
418-Beyond the Books: People who regulate charter schools also make millions off them
419-A Coal Baron Funded Climate Denial as His Company Spiraled Into Bankruptcy
420-How the U.S. Government Is Aggressively Censoring Climate Science - By keeping the public in the dark, federal agencies create an environment where inaction is justified.
421-Fossil fuel political giving outdistances renewables 13 to one
422-Dig Beneath the World’s Far-Right Governments—You’ll Find Fossil Fuels From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations.
423-Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite 80K+ Public Comments Against It
424-Exxon, Chevron get lift from Canada tax cut worth US$700 million
425-Fed to Inject $1.5 Trillion in Bid to Prevent ‘Unusual Disruptions’ in Markets - Move designed to prevent ominous trading conditions stemming from the coronavirus outbreak
427-Democrats Are Handing Donald Trump The Keys To The Country
428-Here is a horrifying map that shows every Detroit tax foreclosure since 2002
429-Judge: PG&E Paid Out Stock Dividends Instead of Trimming Trees
430-Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks
431-The U.S. and Other Rich Countries Stonewalled $300 Billion Climate Relief Fund
432-U.S. Companies Are Stashing $2.1 Trillion Overseas to Avoid Taxes
433-What did corporate America do with that tax break? Buy record amounts of its own stock - The White House promised '70 percent' of the tax cut would go to workers. It didn't.
434-While dumping their stock, US senators misled the public on coronavirus crisis
435-Elon Musk on the problem with corporate America: ‘Too many MBAs’
436-Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms 'Trickle Down' Theory Is an Absolute Sham - "Major tax cuts for the rich since the 1980s have increased income inequality, with all the problems that brings, without any offsetting gains in economic performance."
437-Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
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