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Commentary 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.

Commentary 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 :

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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,...

Commentary Mokhiber: Corporations: Different Than You and Me

Commentary, March, 06 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Corporations are fundamentally different than you and me. That's a simple truth that Big Business leaders desperately hope the public will not perceive. It helps companies immeasurably that the law in the United States and in many other countrie...

Commentary Mokhiber: Marc Rich's Hidden History as a Union-Buster

Commentary, February, 26 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Longtime fugitive from justice Marc Rich has become the most notorious recipient of a presidential pardon since Richard Nixon. President Clinton issued a pardon for the commodities trader in the final hours of his tenure in office.

Commentary Mokhiber: The Corporate Conservative Administration

Commentary, February, 11 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Compassionate conservativism? Try corporate conservativism. It's corporate conservatism that is going to be the defining feature of the Bush White House. Pushing beyond the corporate corrupting frontiers blazed by the Clinton administration, the...

Commentary Mokhiber: Business Power and Mobility

Commentary, January, 30 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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The election season makes it patently clear how Big Business is able to transform its financial resources into political power via campaign contributions.

Commentary Mokhiber: Pardon Me?

Commentary, January, 20 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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Sometime within the next two days, in the last hours of his presidency, Bill Clinton will exercise his Constitutional power to grant clemency to a lucky group of federal convicts.

Commentary Mokhiber: The Real Thing: Democracy as a Contact Sport

Commentary, January, 01 2001 Russell Mokhiber
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A few weeks ago, we received an invitation to attend an event at the Library of Congress. Coca-Cola was about to make an "historic contribution" to the Library of Congress, and the Library, and Coca-Cola, were inviting reporters to cover the even...

Commentary Mokhiber: Busted: the Genentech/American Heart Association Connection

Commentary, December, 20 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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For years, Genentech Inc.'s clotbuster drug tPA has been used to treat heart attacks.Last year, the American Heart Association published guidelines for physicians advising that tPA be used to treat strokes. Whether these new guidelines will help ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Ford/Firestone: Homicide?

Commentary, November, 04 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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In 1998, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 17-year-old Matthew Hendricks was on his way to pick up his girlfriend. He was driving a Ford Explorer. The tread ripped off one of the Ford's Firestone's tires, causing him to lose control. He was thrown from th...

Commentary Mokhiber: Oversight?

Commentary, October, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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The American Political Science Association's annual convention recently came through town, filling up Washington, D.C. hotels with thousands of academics ready to present their latest research findings.Browsing through the convention's program, we...

Commentary Mokhiber: Killing Africa with Kindness

Commentary, September, 16 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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With the announcement of a billion-dollar-a-year U.S. government loan program for African countries to buy AIDS drugs, the fight to deliver affordable drugs to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world has entered its th...

Commentary Mokhiber: Toast

Commentary, September, 04 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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About six years ago, a friend gave us a toaster. It was a present. The friend bought the toaster from Williams-Sonoma, the San Francisco-based kitchen store, with outlets in upscale malls throughout the United States.

Commentary Mokhiber: Cop Killer

Commentary, August, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Cop killer. No, we are not talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal. After a trial that the National Journal's Stuart Taylor called "grotesquely unfair" and that included "fabricated evidence," Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing a Philadelphia police office...

Commentary Mokhiber: Big Ideas on Corporate Accountability and Global Sustainability

Commentary, August, 08 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Sometimes, it is important to think big.In an era where corporations trample across the globe with minimal restraint, and citizen movements around the world are on their heels, it is natural -- and necessary -- for those trying to check corporate ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Which Way, CFA?

Commentary, July, 22 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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The Consumer Federation of America is at a crossroads. Set up in 1968 to advocate in Washington, D.C. for consumer interests, the Federation is being consumed by Washington's corporate culture. Will it seek to reverse course and get back to its co...

Commentary Mokhiber: Sixteen Years for a Snickers Bar

Commentary, May, 15 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Last month, a Texas jury recommended that Kenneth Payne, 29, spend 16 years in jail.Payne's crime? Stealing a Snickers bar from a Tyler, Texas grocery store on December 17, 1999. When Smith county Assistant District Attorney Jodi Brown was asked ...

Commentary Mokhiber: Who Owns America?

Commentary, April, 03 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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The other day, at our local bookstore, we passed a book. And then doubled back. ÊThe book is titled Who Owns America?: A Declaration of Independence. Sounded like it was written by people we should know. But on further investigation, we recognized...

Commentary Mokhiber: Somebody Else's Wealth

Commentary, March, 15 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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Where does the vast wealth of the United States come from? It is hard to read the financial and popular press today without encountering stories that suggest the answer is the creativity of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

Commentary Mokhiber: You Can't Eat Enough of It

Commentary, January, 05 2000 Russell Mokhiber
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At the end of the millennium, W.R. Grace should be considered a candidate as one of the world's most rapacious corporate predators. Of course, if you have seen the movie A Civil Action or read the book by the same title, you are aware of the inju...

Commentary Mokhiber: The Criminal Element

Commentary, November, 01 1999 Russell Mokhiber
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The criminal element has seeped deep into every nook and cranny of American society. Forget about the underworld -- these crooks dominate every aspect of our market, culture, and politics. They cast a deep dark shadow over life in turn of the cent...

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