Geithner 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 Treasury Secretary Geithner the…
The 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 Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) has…
Is Montana’s Attorney General Ignoring the Best Challenge to Citizens United? If so, Why?
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 Montana’s sovereign immunity from suit in a case brought before the U.S….
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 investigators) traveled around the world and conducted hundreds of…
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Did you miss the “Control the Corporation” conference held in DC on April 2? If so, the panels are now available on video.
Links
Corporate Policy – General: Aurora Institute(Canadian group) Citizen Works The Corporate Library (Excellent corporate governance and CEO pay info) “The Corporation” (a new movie about corporations) CounterCorp is the only annual independent film festival devoted to corporate power and related issues Essential Information…
Take Action
Crack Down on Contract-Related Corruption and Cronyism Tell Congress to keep two key contract reform provisions currently in the $613 billion FY 2009 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 5658): a) Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) Clean Contracting Act, which, among other things,…
Corporations and the Constitution
The U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments do not explicitly mention corporations. Nevertheless, under U.S. law corporations have obtained substantial rights through key court decisions that have established particular legal doctrines and provided corporations some of the…
Corporate Concentration
Monopolies and Corporate Concentration: Antitrust and Congress: Check out our paper on corporate concentration. Related information: The American Antitrust Institute drafted a useful Agenda for Congress in 2007 and submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrutst for a hearing in March, 2007. Justice…
Executive Compensation
New (02/04/09) CCP’s Reaction to Obama Administration’s New Executive Pay Policy REPORT on CEO Pay: “Selfish Interest: How the Business Roundtable CEOs Stand to Lose From Real Reform of CEO Pay” Check out these relatedFACT SHEETs: What Congress Can Do About Executive…