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Weissman: High Flyers and Soaring Inequality
Znet Article, June, 27 2008
Robert Weissman
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Private and corporate jet sales are taking off, reflecting an increase in the extreme concentration of wealth in the United States and around the world.
Weissman: Behind Skyrocketing Oil Prices
Znet Article, May, 30 2008
Robert Weissman
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Yesterday comes the news that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating potential manipulation of the oil trading market.
Weissman: Pharmaceutical Payola -- Drug Marketing to Doctors
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Robert Weissman
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Last week, a Congressional committee properly raked Big Pharma over the coals for misleading advertising of pharmaceuticals.
Weissman: Global Poverty
Znet Article, May, 09 2008
Robert Weissman
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Earlier this week the UK was treated to the spectacle of the Business Call to Action summit, which Brown's office co-sponsored with the UN Development Program.
Weissman: Big Pharma Digs In
Znet Article, May, 03 2008
Robert Weissman
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The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoting innovation to meet the particular needs of developing countries and ensuring that important me...
Weissman: Medical R&D That Works for the Developing World
Znet Article, May, 02 2008
Robert Weissman
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Can the world settle on a medical research and development (R&D) system that develops medicines and other products to meet priority health needs and makes those products available on an affordable basis?
Weissman: Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank's Damage
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Robert Weissman
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For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market fundamentalist ideology.
Weissman: IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Znet Article, April, 14 2008
Robert Weissman
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Have things changed at the International Monetary Fund? Or is the world just witnessing yet another in a long series of global economic double standards?
Weissman: Philip Morris International Commences New Plans to Spread Death and Disease
Znet Article, March, 31 2008
Robert Weissman
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The world is about to meet a Philip Morris International that will be even more predatory in pushing its toxic products worldwide...
Weissman: How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Robert Weissman
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The chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Deborah Platt Majoras, is leaving her job. She's going to become vice president and general counsel for Procter & Gamble (P&G).
Weissman: Alternative Power
Znet Article, March, 20 2008
Robert Weissman
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As part of a national day of action, hundreds of people marched in downtown Washington, D.C. this morning to protest five years of the Iraq war and occupation. They blocked traffic and sought to highlight the Washington institutions that have enab...
Weissman: Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose
Znet Article, March, 19 2008
Robert Weissman
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Last month, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a pro-biotech nonprofit, released a report highlighting the proliferation of genetically modified crops.
Weissman: U.S. Multinationals Have Been Decoupling from the U.S. Economy," says BusinessWeek
Znet Article, March, 06 2008
Robert Weissman
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No one blinks when the editor of a magazine called Multinational Monitor (that's me) suggests that multinational corporate interests diverge from and frequently contradict those of regular people.
Weissman: Human Rights Hypocrisy: Hidden In Plain Sight
Commentary, March, 01 2008
Robert Weissman
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There was a time, not so long ago, when U.S. governmental hypocrisy on human rights and corporate interests was at least acknowledged.
Weissman: Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think
Znet Article, January, 17 2008
Robert Weissman
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The U.S. public holds Big Business in shockingly low regard...
Weissman: Victories in 2007
Commentary, January, 01 2008
Robert Weissman
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It's easy enough to recount what went wrong in 2007.
Weissman: The Story of Stuff
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Robert Weissman
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Right now, representatives of the governments of the world are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate international agreements to forestall climate change.
Weissman: On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy
Book, October, 12 2007
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Mokhiber: Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy
Book, October, 12 2007
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Weissman: Greenspan, Kissinger: Oil Drives U.S. in Iraq, Iran
Znet Article, September, 20 2007
Robert Weissman
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Alan Greenspan had acknowledged what is blindingly obvious to those who live in the reality-based world: The Iraq War was largely about oil.
