When The Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Our Laws

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MEDIA ROOTS – Pharmaceutical companies spend an astronomical amount of money on lobbying and advertising.  Sometimes a marketing campaign is so expensive that even if it’s discovered that a drug is ineffective once it hits the market, the money spent needs to be made back; instead of recalling the drug, they continue to push it. Risperdal, a drug designed to treat … Read More

WikiLeaks is Back – Corporate Spying

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MEDIA ROOTS – Early Monday morning, the controversial website WikiLeaks released a stunning collection of Global Intelligence Files from the private intelligence corporation Stratfor. According to WikiLeaks: “The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt … Read More

Corporate Profiteering in Palestinian Settlements

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MEDIA ROOTS- Abby Martin from Media Roots reports the news for Project Censored’s KPFA morning show about the Verizon worker strikes and the role that multinational corporations have in Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The segment features an interview with Dalit Baum, founder of “Who Profits from the Occupation”, an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in … Read More

Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets

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MEDIA ROOTS- The London riots were mostly summarized as an animalistic decline of civil society by the corporate press, with too little analysis as to what societal, political and economic factors could cause such a backlash to occur. Since there was no apparent political motivation behind the rioting, it was easy to discard the actions as indiscriminate herd looting and … Read More

Corporations’ Free Pass: ALEC and “Tort Reform”

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PR WATCH– On October 23, 2009, Harrison “Harry” Kothari celebrated his second birthday by blowing out candles on a cake decorated with a giant airplane. At age two, Harry could ride a tricycle, stack blocks, and say words like “mama,” “airplane,” and “thank you.” A month earlier, surgeons at a Houston hospital had removed a benign cyst from Harrison’s head without … Read More