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Diverting shareholder funds into "dark money" politics

May 2013

If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court pretends, they certainly are loudmouths, constantly telling us how great they are... Read more...

Oh joy – the branch bank of the future is here!

May 2013

The giant banks that wrecked our economy are thriving today, thanks to public funds that Washington continues to make available... Read more...

Ag biz gags on its own gag law

May 2013

Amy Myer was curious. Then she was appalled. Then she was charged with the “crime” of using a cell phone... Read more...

Politicking by corporate cowards

May 2013

Hide & seek can be a fun game for kids, but when huge corporations play it in our elections, fun... Read more...

Stop the serial killers of garment workers

May 2013

Sometimes, corporate greed flares with such intensity that it ignites public outrage. This happened in April when an eight-story, recklessly-built... Read more...

The cold calculation of clothing corporations

May 2013

You see them in stores across our country and around the world: colorful and stylish clothing with happy-sounding brand names... Read more...

Buying time-shares in Congressional committee leaders

May 2013

You never know how popular you are, how smart you are, and how funny your jokes are – until you... Read more...

Turning legislative tricks for corporate Johns

May 2013

Prostitutes are amateurs compared to Texas State Sen. Kel Seliger, whose going rate is $20,000-a-pop. At least, that’s what he... Read more...

The irony in Bush's dandy new library

May 2013

Gosh, it seems like only yesterday that we saw George W on TV reading The Pet Goat to some second... Read more...

An Afghanistan high

April 2013

After 11 years of war, $664 billion expended so far, 2,210 Americans dead, more than 35,000 of our troops maimed... Read more...

George W's $250-million can of whitewash

April 2013

Big doings in Big D – the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Museum & Institute has opened with elaborate fanfare!... Read more...

Scrooge lives!

April 2013

Ebenezer Scrooge, the Dickens character, perfectly personified the nasty rich. For example, when asked to make a charitable donation for... Read more...

Gagging on ag-gag laws

April 2013

Factory farms are not farms at all. They are corporate-run, concentration camps for pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, and other food... Read more...

Sen. Sanders makes sense on Social Security

April 2013

So your heart doctor says to you: “We need to do a little open-heart surgery to make a minor tweak... Read more...

Exxon covered in praise as it covers Mayflower in oil

April 2013

I like the word “Gobsmacked,” because it sounds like what it means: Something completely astonishing, so unbelievable that it smacks... Read more...

Putting your neck on the line

April 2013

Growing up in small-town Texas, I quickly learned about fighting, including this valuable lesson: You should never hit a man... Read more...

Let's join the Army!

April 2013

Imagine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea – namely, converting communities to total renewable energy,... Read more...

Saving our ravaged planet… and ourselves

April 2013

Earth Day cometh – the 43rd year of this national focus on our globe. Should we weep… or cheer? Both.... Read more...

Lanny goes home

April 2013

There’s a secret cosmic door that connects the parallel universes of Washington and Wall Street. It’s not the proverbial revolving... Read more...

The "Territorial Tax" shell game

April 2013

We just had a presidential election in which an admitted tax dodger advocated lower taxes on corporations and speculators like... Read more...

Where's the cop on the Wall Street beat?

April 2013

Let’s tally the bank robberies: JPMorgan Chase engaged in massive fraud to foreclose without cause or due process on innocent... Read more...

Scientists discover the obvious

April 2013

Here’s a scientific conclusion that even a professional science denier would accept: Being stuck in line, on an airplane, in... Read more...

Corporate chieftains say America is unattractive

April 2013

I like the word “lift.” It implies upward progress and a can-do communal spirit: Yes, let’s all put our backs... Read more...

Wall Street's absurd celebration of its absurdities

April 2013

It was a gala evening of celebration, libations, commendations… and insidious corporate cynicism. Hosted in March by a financial trade... Read more...

America needs less Mulally more Drucker

April 2013

“Morally wrong,” is how United Auto Worker president Bob King described last year’s paygrab by one worker at Ford Motor... Read more...