Keep fighting the good fight

…at every turn, fight the corporation. Fight the corporations that control health care, your health care. Fight the corporations that control the wars. Fight the corporations that control your food and what is in it. Fight the corporations that own your politicians and Congress. Fight. Fight the corporations that advertise to your kids and you [...]

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, [...]

A Data Based Argument for Universal Health Care, Part 3: Profiting from Life and Death

We argued in our previous two posts, found here, that people in the United States are less healthy than Japan, the social democracies in western Europe, Cuba, and Costa Rica despite the fact that Americans spend more than twice as much, on a per capita basis, on health care. The next piece of the puzzle [...]

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 [...]