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A reporter for a business publication called the other day about the latest excitement at General Motors headquarters in Michigan. It seems that GM officials are giddy about their “victory” over NBC which apologized for aspects of its televised crashtest regarding the fuel tank placement on certain GM trucks.These officials are telling the press that…
Senator Robert Kennedy (D-NY) called him “one of the heroic figures of our time.” He was Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farmworkers of America (UFWA) who passed away in his sleep in San Luis, Arizona, doing what he has been doing for over 40 years — organizing and defending the migrant farm workers…
There ought to be a television program about corporations titled “Can You Top This?” Composed of short stories about the infinity of avarice and power, people would get some sense of how necessary a just law and order is to these corporate suites whenever they run amuck. Here are a few samples of routine corporatemania.…
I could scarcely believe that he said it. A retired high automobile company executive referred to the three auto companies -GM, Ford and Chrysler — as the “Detroit cartel.” He said it matter-of-factly as if it was a given phenomenon, even in purchasing supplies. The collusion of the three Michigan-based companies — they would call…
On Sunday evening, April 4, 1993, Cong. Tony Hall (D-OH) sat down with his family for dinner. That was to be his last meal for “the indefinite future.” Starting the next day, Mr. Hall fasted, taking only water. He was shocked when the House of Representatives let the House Select Committee on Hunger go out…
The Clinton Administration says it has big plans for “fundamental change” in the way our government and economy work. Change was certainly the mandate of the 1992 election, and the Clinton people have already set out some ambitious plans (keeping in mind, of course, that virtually any presidential leadership seems bold after four years of…
The American Medical Association (AMA) came to Washington, D.C. the other day with 1000 physicians to lobby the Clintons and the Congress on health care policy. They gathered in the Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue and then fanned out to Capitol Hill to see what response they would receive from all those politicians greased by…
Watch out folks, the strategy of the Clinton task force on health care reform is becoming all too clear. Racing to meet a self-imposed May 1, 1993 deadline for the White House’s proposal to Congress, dozens of White House staff, directed by Hillary Clinton, and hundreds of consultants are weaving a restructuring of one-seventh of…
New York Times columnist, Abe Rosenthal, who ruled the Times with an iron, and some say a willful hand, as top editor for about 15 years ending in the late Eighties, released another of his volcanic eruptions of temper. This time, he has fulminated against my comments that under his tenure, the New York Times…
Like a relentless Moloch, commercialism is no longer just creeping; it is charging into arenas hitherto off limits. Remember when Olympic competitions were amateur sports; now the paid stars sport corporate logos that get louder and larger the better to be seen on television. Remember when the public schools provided students with the sanctuary of…