Media & Internet

There are an overwhelming number of books published on the challenges of running large companies. And while approximately 50% of the U.S. workforce work for large companies (500 workers or more), the other 50% work for or own smaller scale businesses. Ben Cohen (of Be...

Santa Fe, NM - The award-winning GreenMoney Journal has its Spring 2006 "Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): Growth and Impact" issue, now online at www.greenmoney.com

In the issue, which ...

Corporate Watchdog Radio (CWR), a half-hour show broadcast twice monthly, is a new hybrid radio show and podcast launched using both platforms simultaneously. Freely accessible on the internet, on broadcast radio, and through the iTunes Music Store, Cor...

Privatization has been part of the conservative agenda for years, but now it has the power of the Bush administration and the Republican controlled Congress behind it. Schools, Social Security, public lands, the military, prisons--are all considered fair game. But doe...

In the groundbreaking bestseller Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich exposed how the dangerous combination of stagnant pay with rising costs of living is driving the working class into a situation where they can no longer make ends meet. As a result, the "Main...

"Ray Bourhis continues his strong commitment to justice by successfully taking on the insurance industry and criminal fraud in this compelling case study. He makes it clear that we need to do much more to end the shameful abus...

"LeRoy offers a parade of damning case studies showing why communities should not woo corporations with subsidies."
---Publishers Weekly

It's an all-too-familiar story: a large company i...

During the last two decades of the 20th century, societies around the world have made a bet on free markets and the corporation. The communist nations of Eastern Europe dismantled their state-controlled economies. China integrated private ownership into its industries...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes in his controversial new book, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extorti...

SEATTLE - Capitalizing on a renewed interest in poetry fostered by Hip Hop and Rap music, local Comcast and El Centro de la Raza officials today announced that El Centro has received a $25,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation's Comcast Reading Network to fund a progr...