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Mokhiber: Restorative Justice
Commentary, June, 20 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Corporate and white collar crime have landed on the front pages of the nation's agenda-setting newspapers.
Mokhiber: The Age of Inequality
Commentary, June, 07 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Here's the latest evidence of the startling growth of income and wealth inequality, in the United States and around the world:
Mokhiber: IMF and World Bank: Out of Control
Znet Article, June, 04 2002
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are institutions out of control. For evidence, consider the institutions' feeble and fatally flawed debt relief program. Under their Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative, the world's poorest...
Mokhiber: No Kidding:
Znet Article, April, 26 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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A key anti-bribery law has taken a major hit. A startling decision handed down last week by a federal judge in Houston undermines the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and will make it difficult for weak and demoralized prosecutors to bring to justice...
Mokhiber: A Corporate Lawyer Speaks Out
Znet Article, April, 15 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Look at the law in each of the fifty U.S. states. All have a provision similar to that of Maine's section 716: "The directors and officers of a corporation shall exercise their powers and discharge their duties with a view to the interest of the c...
Mokhiber: Rotten To The Core
Commentary, April, 10 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Frank Easterbrook and Daniel Fischel are University of Chicago law professors who believe that, when it comes to making profits, nothing -- not even the law -- should stand in the way. (For almost two decades, Easterbrook has also been a federal a...
Mokhiber: Personal Responsibility For The Corporate Elite
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Before the corporate and political elite consign the "corporate accountability" proposal issued by President Bush last week to the dustbin, it is worth highlighting one element: the idea that CEOs sign and personally attest to the accuracy of the ...
Mokhiber: Business Men Make Boo Boo's
Znet Article, March, 14 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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Let us now take a walking tour of Washington, D.C., to see whether the Enron scandal has loosened corporate America's grip on our nation's capital. (Okay, the answer is no.) At the White House yesterday, President Bush announced a 10-point plan th...
Mokhiber: Wired for Business or Democracy?
Commentary, March, 06 2002
Russell Mokhiber
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While Internet stocks may have crashed, Internet optimists still abound.
Mokhiber: The Cipro Rip-Off and the Public Health
Commentary, December, 03 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Confronted with the prospect of bioterrorism on a massive scale, the Bush administration and the pharmaceutical industry have colluded to protect patent monopolies rather than the public health.
Mokhiber: Kill, Kill, Kill
Commentary, November, 19 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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In a recent interview with the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Osama bin Laden justified the killing of innocent Americans this way :
Mokhiber: How Wall Street Created a Nation
Commentary, November, 05 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Oviodio Diaz Espino was working as a corporate lawyer at J.P. Morgan in New York when he went to a Christmas Party in 1997. At the party, Diaz met a movie producer, Webster Stone. Stone noticed Diaz had a foreign accent and asked him where he was...
Mokhiber: The Wartime Opportunists
Commentary, September, 24 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Corporate interests and their proxies are looking to exploit the September 11 tragedy to advance a self-serving agenda that has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with corporate profits and dangerous ideologies.
Mokhiber: Corporate Globalization and the Poor
Commentary, August, 09 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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George Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, issuing a public challenge to the anti-corporate globalization movement. When hundreds of thousands last month demonstrated against the G-8 meeting of rich country leaders in Genoa, Italy, George Bush decr...
Mokhiber: You Don't Know Jack
Commentary, July, 15 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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The clock is running out for Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric. It is also winding down for Don Morrison, a dairy farmer in upstate New York.
Mokhiber: A Call to Defy Corporate Domination
Commentary, June, 17 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Since 1953, the percentage of unionized workers in the United States has declined from 26 percent to less than 14 percent. Yet, given the choice of joining a union or not, 48 percent of workers in this country say they would join. So, why isn't ...
Mokhiber: Every Nook and Cranny
Commentary, May, 21 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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We've heard it said that commercialism will keep expanding its frontiers until every boundary has been smashed and non-commercial values are completely extinguished.
Mokhiber: Ari the Evader
Commentary, May, 03 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Ari Fleischer is a nice guy. He likes baseball. We like baseball. That's about where the similarities end. Fleischer is the most recent in a long unbroken line of press secretaries of corporate presidents of the United States.
Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Mokhiber: House Call
Commentary, March, 30 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Recently, we have become friends with Matt Hahn, a young medical doctor who lives in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Dr. Hahn is a conventional doctor in many ways -- his clinic is littered with little notepads supplied by drug companies,...
