January 2012
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.
January 2012
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.
October 2010
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.
August 2009
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.
June 2008
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 that phrase now seems. Progressives today do talk about making the superrich pay their "fair tax share"; but we no longer dare imagine an America without the superrich.
June 2008
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.
May 2008
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 the government of Bolivia.
January 2008
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’s car”. This regards the vehicle as a “historic breakthrough” which makes “every Indian inches taller” and can unleash a “democratic revolution” by meeting mass aspirations.
January 2008
The $2,500 Nano from Tata Motors - India's steel and engineering giant - may turn out to be an ecological nightmare and a major health risk, writes Praful Bidwai.
Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling last week of an ultra-cheap bare-bones car made by the Tatas, India's steel and engineering giant.
Priced at US$2,500, the Nano is arguably the world's cheapest four-wheeled passenger vehicle.
January 2008
Bolivia is being sued by Telecom Italia in a secretive World Bank tribunal, ICSID, even though the Andean nation withdrew from the tribunal in May 2007.