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Call it the Corporate Ultimatum. That is what global corporations, technically domiciled in the United States, are confronting the American people with on a broad and cruel front. Whether it is laying off workers, while vastly increasing the compensation of bosses, or demanding lower health, safety and environmental standards, or insisting on far lower taxes…
Desperately seeking to find an issue that puts President Clinton on the defensive, Senator Robert Dole wants to repeal the 4.3-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax that was enacted in 1993. Desperately determined never to let his Republican opponent outflank him from the right, Mr. Clinton is willing to go along — kinda that is. This is what…
Twenty years ago, Dr. Carl Jensen, professor of communication studies at Sonoma State University in California, launched “Project Censored” in a valiant effort to make the American public more aware of the media’s “self censorship” which leaves the nation’s information plate so empty and unsatisfying. In the place of stories that should have provided the…
From The Nader Letter May 1996 The Clinton Administration and the Congress are in a mad scramble to come up with a solution to the problems created by an undercapitalized Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) and a growing competitive disadvantage for the thrift industry vis a vis the nation’s commercial banks. The problems could have…
The growing corporate dismantling of our democracy flouts the lessons of history that demonstrate the critical role of countervailing powers to big business greed and power. Let’s look at some ways that our country has developed to curb and discipline business abuses. 1. The antitrust laws were passed between 1890 and 1914 to prohibit anti-competitive…
The corporate takeover of childhood is what marketing specialists euphemistically call “the integrated product marketplace.” That means tying together, through one conglomerate after another, television programming, advertising, music video, videogame, MTV, movies, food, cosmetics, clothing and other products to envelop children, by age groups, in a corporate product world. Even the schools are now objects…
Republicans in Congress never tire of exuding their fulminations against Big Government. They also never tire of their sham, for they are the leading supporters of that Big Government — such as the Federal Reserve and corporate welfare payouts — that caters to the endless demands of Big Business. Big Business is Big Government. How…
The recent orgy of forcing taxpayers to subsidize the multi‑millionaire owners of sports corporations shows no signs of abating as cities grovel to outbid one another. The bids normally range between $200 million to $400 million packages and the giveaway contracts do not require any share of profits or any other kind of payback to…
From The Nader Letter April 1996 As coronations go, the confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan and two new members of the Board were, if nothing else, a model of efficiency and speed, taking just a little more than three hours of the Senate Banking Committee’s time. So perfunctory was the Committee’s…
On March 26th, the voters of California defeated three proposals on the ballot that would have destroyed or restricted the legal protections of injured motorists and other people swindled of their savings or harmed by defective products. About fifteen million dollars of computer, insurance and financial industry monies bankrolled these “democracy destroyers” behind a barrage…