The Corporations over the People? ACLUSA endorses Obama

The financial crisis that has fallen onto the heads of the American people in recent weeks is one that highlights one of the fundamental problems with the prevailing ideology of our nation since the beginning of the post-World War II period.
Soon after the war, conservatives began to work on an ideological reprogramming of the dominant [...]

The Beginning of the End of the Golden Parachute: A Case Study

PHRED DVORAK of the Wall Street Journal

Top executives at Double Eagle Petroleum Co. signed employment agreements this month that curtailed a time-honored executive perquisite: the executives don’t get severance in cases of “poor performance.”
Sigmund Balaban, a Double Eagle director, says the board wanted to make sure departing executives deserve the money they walk away with. [...]