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Did you ever wonder whether there are any constitutional limitations on the use of your tax dollars, other than to observe the separation of church and state? Well, President Clinton just brazenly decided that even Congress is not needed in applying $20 billion of your dollars to bailout the corrupt Mexican government, its billionaire oligarchs…

It would have been folk singer, Harry Chapin’s forty fifth birthday on December 7, 1987. But a tragic car-truck collision on the Long Island Expressway in 1981 ended this young artist -­citizen’s supercharged drive to end the specter of Hunger on Earth. Chapin’s legacy is growing rapidly and the reasons are not obscure. Among artists,…

The college teacher was scanning the financial pages of his newspaper. “It’s enough to drive you bananas.” He was utterly befuddled by the different interest rate and financial service combinations being offered by the banks, money market funds, savings and loans and brokerage houses which are making newspapers richer with their large space ads. “How…

The Dallas school trustees voted 7-1 the other day to bar sugar-rich or zero-nutrition foods and drinks from school vending machines. The move could spark similar decisions across the country, which is why the $5 billion vending machine industry is watching closely. Trustee Nancy Judy was the persuasive mover behind the board’s decision to provide…

WASHINGTON–Are Foundations reluctant to support studies of corporate behavior or the concentration of wealth in the econ­omy? Figures recently available from The Foundation Center underscore a resounding “yes” to this question. For the period 1972 and 1973, the Center reports that out of 18,700 grants, only 34 grants came under the heading of “economic studies.”…

WASHINGTON– When a group of Republicans, Democrats and White House lobbyists piled up behind Senator James Allen’s (D. Ala.) filibuster to defeat the Presidential campaign finance reform amendment this month, they made clear to the voters that it will take more than the massive Watergate corruption of big money in politics to get big money…

Occupied as it now is with the massive Watergate scandal, Washington ignored some unprecedented Congressional testimony recently given by an auto manufacturer. On April 16, 1973, a Japanese auto company told Congress and the public what it could do instead of what it could not do. The executive vice-president of Nissan Motor Company, Soichi Kawazoe,…

As has been their practice for over 20 years, the domestic automobile Companies once again are mounting an intense propaganda campaign to advertise their “inability” to meet air pollution control standards. This time General Motors, Ford and Chrysler executives have been singing the same tune about the impossibility of meeting the federal government’s 1975 automobile…