More Proof that the FDA Is a Tool of Big Corporations

By JULIE SCELFO of the New York Times
Published: December 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/dining/24chem.html
 
WEEKS after its own advisory board accused the Food and Drug Administration of failing to adequately consider research about the dangers of bisphenol-A, found in many plastic baby bottles, plastic food containers and metal can linings, the agency has agreed to reconsider the issue.
The F.D.A.’s draft risk assessment [...]

Bribery Is One Tool in the Chest of Many Corporations: Siemens AG in Perspective

By SIRI SCHUBERT and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER of the New York Times
Published: December 20, 2008
REINHARD SIEKACZEK was half asleep in bed when his doorbell rang here early one morning two years ago.
Still in his pajamas, he peeked out his bedroom window, hurried downstairs and flung open the front door. Standing before him in the cool, [...]

Court Documents Reveal Child Research Center Was Under the Influence of Johnson & Johnson

By Gardiner Harris of the New York Times
Posted at  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/health/25psych.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
When a Congressional investigation revealed in June that Dr. Joseph Biederman, a world-renowned child psychiatrist, had earned far more money from drug makers than he had reported to his university, he said that his interests were “solely in the advancement of medical treatment through rigorous and [...]

A New Hope: Big Business to Soon Be on the Defensive in D.C.

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers
 
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/economics/story/55374.html
 
WASHINGTON — After years of playing offense, big business is getting ready for the less familiar role of playing defense following President-elect Barack Obama’s victory and legislative gains by other Democrats.
Corporate America enjoyed favorable treatment under the Bush administration for almost eight years and for most of [...]

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. [...]

Who Needs the Big Oil Enemies When We Have the Minerals Management Service?

By STEPHEN POWER of the
Wall Street Journal
 
WASHINGTON — Employees of the federal agency that last year collected more than $11 billion in royalties from oil and gas companies broke government rules and created a “culture of ethical failure” by allegedly accepting gifts from and having sex with industry representatives, the Interior Department’s top watchdog said [...]