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Brands 'R' Us? (Movements, Corporate Consolidation, Global Justice Movement)

Jeremy Rifkin wants to rock the world of the jaded reader: He predicts that we're entering a completely new--the final--stage of capitalism.

Jane Slaughter
The Company Picnic (Corporate Consolidation, Mergers and Antitrust, Non-fiction)

A Wall Street Journal poll of 350 major corporations found that the median compensation, including stock options, for CEOs last year was $2,635,799. That was a growth of 3.1 percent.

Robert Sherrill

Blogs

The FCC Must Not Give Rupert Murdoch More Control Over US Media
John Nichols

The man that proposed “Petraeus for President” threatens to dominate airwaves and headlines in major American cities. 

December 6, 2012
Romney's 'Some Towns Just Don't Count' Tour
John Nichols

The GOP candidate’s bus tour skips communities battered by Bain Capital.

June 19, 2012
Let's Admit the Truth About American Royals
The Notion

According to polls, only about 6 percent of Americans are following with any close attention the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.  But that's not stopping the media fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with Americans’ supposed fascination with Britain's royals.

April 27, 2011
Big Media Gets Bigger as FCC and Justice Department Approve Comcast/NBC Merger
John Nichols

The FCC's vote to approve Comcast's proposed acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal represents the ultimate surrender to the demands of corporate America.

January 18, 2011
Al Franken Calls the Antitrust Cops on Comcast
John Nichols

Minnesota senator seeks a Department of Justice investigation into manipulation of NBC by Comcast.

November 24, 2010
Make CEOs Take Responsibility for Democracy-Warping Ads
John Nichols

As someone who has written several books and dozens of major articles on judicial interventions in our politics, and who has covered literally hundreds of campaigns in every state of the country, I have made no secret about my sense that the best response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to let corporations spend freely on campaigns is a constitutional amendment to protect our democracy from being overwhelmed with corporate cash.

February 11, 2010
Cable Comcast: Al Franken Says Hell No on the NBC Takeover
Katrina vanden Heuvel

The "I will mess you up" Senator is what Keith Olbermann is now calling Al Franken. He also added that "orientation" for Minnesota's Senator is now over.

February 10, 2010
Groundhog's Day Budgeting: Again, Obama Underfunds Job Growth
John Nichols

The 2009 stimulus bill that was supposed to spur job creation at a sufficient rate to prevent double-digit unemployment might have done so if it had been approved at the level and with the focus intended by the serious players in the U.S. House who initially crafted a real response to the recession.

February 1, 2010
Blocking Bernanke is Smart Economics, Smart Politics for Dems
John Nichols

If the Democratic Party wants to lose – or, to be more precise, wants to lose badly in 2010 and 2012, it need only maintain its current loyalty to the most powerful interests on Wall Street.

January 25, 2010