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Mokhiber: Say No to Silicone
Znet Article, November, 08 2003
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Eleven years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was pulling silicone breast implants from the market, leaving them available only to breast cancer survivors who needed them for reconstruction or to women enrolled in limited cl...
Mokhiber: A Dull and Largely Uncritical Recitation of Official Sources
Znet Article, October, 25 2003
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The New York Times reported yesterday that a Columbia University history professor hired by the paper to make an independent assessment of the coverage of one of its correspondents in the Soviet Union during the 1930s said that the Pulitzer Prize ...
Mokhiber: U.s. Bullies Europeans On Chemical Testing
Znet Article, October, 14 2003
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Literally tens of thousands of chemicals on the market have never been tested for their impact on human health. The chemical industry thinks this is a good thing. Safety testing is too expensive, the chemical companies say. Chemical manufacturers...
Mokhiber: Open the Debates
Znet Article, October, 13 2003
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Is it viable for the United States to provide health coverage to every person in its borders? Could the economy transition quickly from fossil-fuel addiction to reliance on solar energy and other renewables? Of course. As the presidential campa...
Mokhiber: Nike Gets a Pass
Znet Article, September, 23 2003
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Why did Marc Kasky settle his case against Nike for a $1.5 million payment to the Fair Labor Association, a group controlled by Nike and other major shoe manufacturers? Kasky, described in various press reports as a "labor activist" and "gadfly,"...
Mokhiber: Corporateering
Znet Article, September, 10 2003
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Corporateering: When corporations exceed their traditional role in a marketplace to dominate the cultural sphere and compromise individuals’ rights, freedoms and power, and the democratic systems that protect them. The act implies corporat...
Mokhiber: We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It
Znet Article, August, 11 2003
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We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It
Mokhiber: Throwing Precaution to The Wind
Znet Article, June, 04 2003
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Since its founding, critics have complained that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is designed to strip sovereignty from nations, removing critical public policy decisions from democratic control. The world may now be entering an era when those ...
Mokhiber: Why Ari Should Have Resigned In Protest
Znet Article, May, 20 2003
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At the White House today, Ari Fleischer announced that he will resign as press secretary to President Bush effective in July. Ari says he has spent 21 years in government, he never intended to spend the rest of his life in government, he's recentl...
Mokhiber: The Unbalanced Hawks At The Washington Post
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
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What is going on at the Washington Post? We would say that the Post editorial pages have become an outpost of the Defense Department -- except that there is probably more dissent about the pending war in Iraq in the Pentagon than there is on the ...
Mokhiber: Corporations, War, You
Znet Article, February, 07 2003
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Corporations, War, You
Mokhiber: Stealing Money from Kids
Znet Article, February, 01 2003
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If there's one thing that brings together the right and the left, and citizens and corporations, it is the importance of education -- for stimulating the intellect, developing a moral sensibility, enhancing the civic culture, enabling a skilled w...
Mokhiber: Why Newsweek Is Bad For Kids
Znet Article, November, 13 2002
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Did you see the cover story of Newsweek magazine last week? The cover story is titled, "Why TV is Good for Kids." What are we to expect from Newsweek next week? Why Soda Pop is Good for Kids. Why Sedentary Living is Good for Kids. Why Obesity...
Mokhiber: A Day At The American Enterprise Institute
Znet Article, November, 04 2002
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Didn't have anything good to do earlier this week, so decided to spend the day at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). AEI is the granddaddy of the big corporate front groups. Their job? Re-engineer the political economy to the liking of the...
Mokhiber: Bowling For Baghdad
Znet Article, October, 19 2002
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Last week, your nation's capital was a bit more surreal than usual. First and foremost, there is the sniper. And just when the sniper arrives in the neighborhood, here comes Michael Moore with his much awaited critique of violence in America -...
Mokhiber: 10 (More) Reasons to Protest the IMF and World Bank
Znet Article, September, 27 2002
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are again holding their annual meetings in Washington, D.C. With financial crises wracking Argentina and Brazil, and deepening poverty further engulfing most of Africa -- even as all these nati...
Mokhiber: The Bush Victory In Iraq
Znet Article, September, 21 2002
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George Bush has already won a victory in Iraq, and we're not talking about weapons inspectors' access inside the country. The administration's beating of the war drums has drowned out the dominant stories of two months ago -- the corporate scand...
Mokhiber: Thirsty For Justice
Znet Article, September, 06 2002
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Shown the folly of over-reliance on markets even in the world's richest country, the market fundamentalists at the World Bank are continuing their push for privatization of services -- with the provision of drinking water at the top of the list --...
Mokhiber: Push Back
Znet Article, July, 26 2002
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Let the corporate criminals take over Wall Street. And investors flee the market. Hello criminals. Goodbye market. Pollute nature. And nature confronts the polluters. Push the people to the edge of their misery, and the people push back. In...
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
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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
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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: Personal Responsibility For The Corporate Elite
Znet Article, March, 15 2002
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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
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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...
