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State of Corporate Power 2012
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January 2012
TNI

Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

The Davos Class
January 2012
Susan George

The Davos class run our major institutions, know exactly what they want, and are well organized, but they have weaknesses too. For they are wedded to an ideology that isn't working and they have virtually no ideas nor imagination to resolve this.

The resistible rise of corporate power
October 2010
Hilary Wainwright

The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

When corporations capture the state
August 2009
Praful Bidwai
The danger of a corporate capture of government isn't imaginary, and corporations represent narrow profit-seeking interests of businessmen whose forte is not Constitutional values.
Corporate takeover at Poznan: some facts
December 2008
TNI
 Climate Justice Now!
The UN Climate Conference in Poznan is systematically privileging business lobby groups over public interest organisations.

The UN Climate Conference in Poznan is systematically privileging business lobby groups over public interest organisations, according to members of the Climate...

Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
June 2008
Sarah Anderson
 Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati
Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.

America's first Gilded Age didn't merely end. Progressives had to fight to end it. Our forebears did battle, decade after decade, for proposals that dared to "soak the rich."

How quaint...

The Rich and the Rest of Us
June 2008
John Cavanagh
 John Cavanagh and Chuck Collins
Politicians and their corporate backers have engineered the most colossal redistribution of wealth from the bottom up, from working people to a tiny global elite.
International civil society organisations protest Telecom Italia’s new attacks and confiscatory measures against Bolivia
May 2008
TNI
 Press Release
Civil society organisations meeting in the People’s Social Summit in Lima denounce the recent decision of ETI and Telecom Italia this month to demand that the New York State Court freeze the accounts of the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL) as part of a strategy of aggression against...
Dutch letter to Ministry and Politicians
January 2008
TNI

Amsterdam, 22 januari 2008

The unaffordable ultra-cheap car
January 2008
Praful Bidwai
The new Nano from Tata Motors will set a trend under which industry will rush to produce ultra-cheap cars by exploiting India’s poor emission standards.

There have been two reactions to the unveiling of the Tata Nano. The first is euphoria and exultation over this ultra-cheap “people’...

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