Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
Matthew Blake : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
2005
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G.M. Stumps the Senators
With assembly plant shut-downs and a massive layoff of 5,000 workers, GM has seen better days. Those include the 1950s, when GM was in trouble with the Senate for being too powerful, and accused of artificially raising prices and creating a monopoly in Detroit.
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How to Curb Corporate Power
Ralph Nader : Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
As corporations consolidate, they grab power from the public. Here are seven modest proposals to give power back to the public and avoid another Enron.
2004
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America's Last Honest Place
Las Vegas is the American market ethic stripped bare, a mini-world totally free of the pretenses and protocols of modern consumer capitalism.
2002
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Prick Up Your Ears
: Music
Savvy left-leaning artists are busy reinventing the protest music tradition, often beneath the radar.
2000
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The Last Farm Crisis
In the final triumph of free-market capitalism, farmers will become serfs.
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)
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