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Znet Article Mokhiber: Stick to Money and Monopolies

Znet Article, April, 05 2010 Russell Mokhiber
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How to Talk About Single Payer to a Conservative

Znet Article Mokhiber: Time to Get Reckless?

Znet Article, October, 04 2009 Russell Mokhiber
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With pictures of Ralph Nader surrounding him, Michael Moore this week threatened Congressional Democrats with defeat at the polls in 2010.

Znet Article Mokhiber: Single-Payer

Znet Article, July, 20 2009 Russell Mokhiber
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Most people, when they arrive in Washington, D.C., see it for what it is – a cesspool of corruption.

Znet Article Mokhiber: Bugliosi Wants Bush Charged with Murder

Znet Article, May, 26 2008 Russell Mokhiber
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Former California prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi wants President Bush charged with murder.

Znet Article Mokhiber: HP and The Privacy Erosion

Znet Article, October, 02 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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It's hard not to be mesmerized by the bubbling scandal at Hewlett-Packard. Former chair of the board Patricia Dunn had the company hire private detectives to track down who on the company's board was leaking information. Those detectives used "pr...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Elmo will not Absolve You

Znet Article, September, 29 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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Just returned from a run around the National Mall. Party tents are going up. Getting ready for the National Book Festival on Saturday. Hosted by the Library of Congress. Sponsored by Target and AT&T. And starring Laura Bush. You will be seei...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Cesspool

Znet Article, September, 16 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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Ah, the cesspool. That would, of course, be Congress. Aka Capitol Hill. We caught a whiff of the cesspool the other day when a group of corporate liberals announced that they were going to launch yet another "newspaper" to cover the cesspool. Mi...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Signs Of The Times

Znet Article, July, 31 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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Using a statistical lens, two just-released books shed light on the ravages of corporate globalization. Vital Signs 2006-2007 from the Washington, D.C.-based WorldWatch Institute contends that "the health of the global economy and the stability o...

Znet Article Mokhiber: A Stateless Philip Morris?

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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Shareholders in Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, are meeting today in East Hanover, New Jersey and singing "Happy Days Are Here Again." Happy shareholders in a cigarette company is bad news for public health. In the short term -- and...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Overthrow

Znet Article, April, 23 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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HawaiiCubaPhilippinesPuerto RicoNicaraguaHondurasIranGuateSouth VietnamChileGrenadaPanamaAfghanistanIraq What do these 14 governments have in common? You got it. The United States overthrew them. And in almost in every case, the overthrow can be...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Military Lunacy: How About A Bit Of Common Sense?

Znet Article, March, 10 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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In a crazy place, even the most modest steps toward sanity can seem radical. Thus, in Washington, the Common Sense Budget Act, introduced this week by Representative Lynn Woolsey of California, seems like a far-reaching move. In fact, it might b...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Plastics

Znet Article, February, 18 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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Good morning. We've just awakened. Cup of coffee in hand. We flip through today's papers. Looking for stories by our favorite corporate crime reporters. And this is what we found: In the New York Times, Jane Perlez reports that Newmont Mining...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Of Snowboarders And Corporations

Znet Article, February, 09 2006 Russell Mokhiber
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What's the most powerful and underutilized legal tool in combating corporate crime and violence? Sarbanes Oxley? No. The Martin Act? No. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? No. The antitrust laws? Clearly not. No, the most powerful and underut...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Ford's Toxiclegacy.com

Znet Article, October, 28 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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One block from the White House, on 15th Street, embedded in the sidewalk, in front of The Old Ebbitt Grill, is a bronze medallion honoring the life of Booker T. Washington. The medallion has a picture of Booker T. and reads: "As an influential...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Banned from First Amendment Room

Znet Article, October, 25 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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This morning, at the National Press Club, U.S. News and World Report held a press event to announce the release of its list of "America's Best Leaders 2005." The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy S...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Bill Bennett, Bob Bennett, and the Criminal Element

Znet Article, October, 19 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Bill Bennett and Bob Bennett are brothers. Bill Bennett is the social conservative pundit. Bob Bennett is the white-collar criminal defense lawyer. Bob Bennett is the lawyer for New York Times' reporter Judith Miller. As you might recall -...

Znet Article Mokhiber: No Bigger Fish Than Mci

Znet Article, September, 13 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Last week, federal prosecutors in New York decided not to criminally prosecute WorldCom/MCI for an $11 billion fraud.  This represents a travesty of justice. The government's response to the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history has been grossl...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Condemning Injustice

Znet Article, June, 29 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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It is usually a good thing when the liberal bloc on the Supreme Court can cobble together a majority. Not last week. In Kelo v. New London, the liberal majority ruled that there is virtually no U.S. constitutional restriction on the government's...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Corporate College

Znet Article, April, 12 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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By Believe or not, there exists a group of homeschooling parents who teach their kids at home because they believe that the public schools have been destroyed by corporations. The food is corporate junk. The street clothes and sportswear are cov...

Znet Article Mokhiber: The Wolfowitz Coup

Znet Article, April, 05 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Although many thought it was a cruel practical joke when Paul Wolfowitz's name was first floated to head the World Bank, this was no April Fool's prank: Last Thursday, the executive directors of the World Bank approved the key architect of the Ira...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Crush Corporate Crime

Znet Article, March, 30 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Last week, we attended a press conference. It was held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which identifies itself as "an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and ...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Global Bully Goes to Guatemala

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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There's something profoundly disturbing -- sickening, really -- about watching a bully at work. You feel either complicit, or powerless, or both. The global bully, the United States, has just coerced Guatemala, its latest victim, into repealing ...

Znet Article Mokhiber: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action

Znet Article, March, 10 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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We traveled to Graceland last year, and picked up a CD. 30 Elvis Number One Hits....

Znet Article Mokhiber: 10 Ways to Save a Corporate Criminal

Znet Article, March, 04 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Good morning Mr. CEO. What do you have there in your hand? Yes, indeed, that is a subpoena from the Justice Department. Yes, indeed, the corporation is a target of a criminal investigation. Yes, indeed, it appears that in fact the corporat...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Valentine's Day Sweatshops

Znet Article, February, 12 2005 Russell Mokhiber
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Before you buy your sweetie those roses for Valentine's Day, pause for a moment to consider where they come from, and at what cost -- and what can be done to give a bit more joy not just to the flowers' recipients, but their producers. Cut flower...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Don't Be Left Behind

Znet Article, December, 16 2004 Russell Mokhiber
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Have you heard of the Left Behind books? They are books about the end times. They are written by two evangelical Christians -- Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Go into any Wal-Mart, or Costco or any of the big box stores, and you will see them ...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Trespass Against Us

Znet Article, November, 23 2004 Russell Mokhiber
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Let's assume for a second, as the law does, that a corporation is a person. If a corporation is a person, then how come we don't see biographies of corporations? We're not talking about "official" biographies -- those written by people in the po...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Reagan the Paradigm Shifter

Znet Article, June, 12 2004 Russell Mokhiber
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He was what Charles Derber in his new book, Regime Change Begins at Home, calls a "regime-changer," moving decisively to end the flagging New Deal era and launching the modern period of corporate rule. Reagan changed the framework of expectation...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Tuna Meltdown

Znet Article, May, 21 2004 Russell Mokhiber
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A family doctor friend of ours was irate.For the past two years, he's been pushing a simple message -- a healthy diet combined with regular exercise helps prevent disease. But he is up against a corporate army that undercuts this simple message a...

Znet Article Mokhiber: Corporate Military Monster

Znet Article, April, 24 2004 Russell Mokhiber
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Corporate Military Monster

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