Category Archives: EVIL CORPORATIONS

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U.S. Corporations are looking to and investing in new markets outside of the United States. That doesn’t just mean they’ve moved the manufacturing outside of the U.S.; it means they no longer see the U.S. as the primary market they’re … Continue reading

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Kellogg Asks Mayan Group To Reconsider Toucan Sam-Like Logo

SAN FRANCISCO — Kellogg Co. is asking a group working to defend Mayan culture to reconsider its logo, saying consumers can confuse it with Toucan Sam, the mascot of its Froot Loops cereal. An attorney for the world’s largest cereal … Continue reading

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21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor

In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit. By Rania Khalek AlterNet There is one group of American workers so disenfranchised that corporations are able to get away with … Continue reading

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Hyatt Hotel Fries Union Protestors With Heat Lamps

By Jen Sabella HUFFINGTON POST On Thursday morning, hundreds of unionized hotel workers gathered outside of Chicago’s Park Hyatt. After nearly two years of negotiations, they demanded a new contract, protested working conditions and decried the company’s alleged plans to … Continue reading

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Workers Producing Clothing for Walmart, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s and Hanes Have Allegedly Been Routinely Beaten, Underpaid and Forced To Work Excessive Hours

One manager repeatedly raped female Sri Lankan workers, prompting a strike late last year … By Janell Ross HUFFINGTON POST A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan … Continue reading

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MSNBC: Outsiders are cool, but we’re the establishment

Cenk Uygur On Leaving MSNBC: Network Told Me To ‘Tone It Down,’ Didn’t Want To ‘Challenge Power’  

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SOLUTIONS: Landowners Challenge TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline

TransCanada is suing and threatening American farmers and ranchers with eminent domain so it can build a pipeline that will serve no one but TransCanada and Big Oil By Tom Zeller Jr. HUFFINGTON POST Sue Kelso, born Sue White, is … Continue reading

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Mass psychosis in the US

By James Ridgeway ALJAZEERA How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 … Continue reading

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Letting Bankers Walk

By Paul Krugman New York Times Ever since the current economic crisis began, it has seemed that five words sum up the central principle of United States financial policy: go easy on the bankers. This principle was on display during … Continue reading

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ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition

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