Exxon’s Private Empire
Steve Coll’s new book on ExxonMobil, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, is a masterful portrait of one of the world’s most powerful corporations. Coll (with help from a team of...
View ArticleIs Montana’s Attorney General Ignoring the Best Challenge to Citizens United?...
The Corporate Crime Reporter, the Washington, DC-based newsletter edited by Russell Mokhiber, reported a few days ago that Steve Bullock, the attorney general of Montana, is refusing to assert...
View ArticleThe Right to Know What’s In Our Food is a Civil Right
With less than a week to go before California voters decide whether they want food that contains genetically engineered (GE) ingredients to be explicitly labeled as such, the board of the American...
View ArticleGeithner Must Go
An early litmus test of Barack Obama’s willingness to push policies to help the middle class in his second term — as promised ad nauseum throughout the campaign — will be whether or not he gives...
View ArticleCivic Censorship: “Corporate Crime”
A new column by Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, points out that U.S. news media have used the term “corporate crime” just 42 times since the year began. The only instance in...
View ArticleExxon, Dow, and the Koch Brothers: Buying the Bench
A Center for Public Integrity investigation reveals that Exxon, Dow, the Kochs, the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate groups spent millions of dollars in recent years to send sitting judges to...
View ArticleTax (Policy) Time
The call to reform corporate taxes is accelerating. The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy papers on tax reform today that at least include some ideas we like for discussion and...
View ArticleA Reminder: The Rich Don’t Always Win
Sam Pizzigati (editor of the superb website, TooMuchOnline, which tracks CEO pay and other gross excesses of the super-rich) has a new book out that rebuts the self-justifying claims used by the rich...
View ArticleWhy Debunking the “Myth of Shareholder Value” is so Critical
Steve Pearlstein’s column in Sunday’s Post Business section (with a related story by Jia Lynn Jang) is an excellent deconstruction of the “myth of shareholder value” and a must read for readers of this...
View ArticleSpooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits
News Release For Immediate Release: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits Giant...
View ArticleNader, Groups Ask USDOJ for Annual Report and Public Database on Corporate Crime
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 Nader, Groups Ask USDOJ for Annual Report and Public Database on Corporate Crime Ralph Nader,...
View ArticleAfter GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding...
News Release For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 After GM Disaster, Nader & Groups Call for Criminal Liability for Hiding Product...
View ArticleTwo Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers
News Release For Immediate Release: Friday, April 11, 2014 For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Gary Ruskin (202) 387-8030 Two Key Corporate Accountability Bills Introduced by Rep. Conyers...
View ArticleBig Credit Suisse’s Sweetheart Deal
By Ralph Nader Attorney General Eric Holder’s sweetheart settlement with Switzerland’s second largest bank, corporate criminal Credit Suisse, sent the wrong message to other corporate barons. Senator...
View ArticleNew Legislation Would Allow Criminal Penalties Against Corporate Officers Who...
Coalition for Sensible Safeguards news release For Immediate Release: July 15, 2014 Contact: Angela Bradbery, (202) 588-7741, abradbery@citizen.org; or Brian Gumm, (202) 683-4812,...
View ArticleMajority of Congress Failed to take Action on Corporate Accountability in 2014
News Release For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 28, 2015 Contact: Valentina Stackl, (202)466-5188×100, valentina@earthrights.org Majority of Congress Failed to Take Action on Corporate Accountability...
View ArticleGeneral Motors: Homicidal Fugitive from Justice
By Ralph Nader Yes, it’s official. General Motors engaged in criminal wrongdoing for long knowing about the lethal defect in its ignition switch that took at least 174 lives and counting, plus serious...
View ArticleU.S. Insurance Companies Are Deeply Invested in Climate Pollution
It’s no surprise that major U.S. insurers are getting hit with a large number of claims following the enormous damage from this year’s hurricanes and wildfires. But it will surprise many people that...
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