FTC Declines to Probe Whether Ads for ‘Diet’ Products are Deceptive
U.S. Right to Know’s citizen petition shot down by agency officials FTC officials cite ‘enforcement priorities,’ limited resources am
Koch Draws on Big Tobacco for New PR Hires
David Koch may once have called Koch Industries "the biggest company you've never heard of," but facing increasing scrutiny--as the Koch brothers’ p
Maurice Tempelsman may be Implicated in HSBC Diamond Business Fraud Claims
A Lawyer for Maurice Tempelsman and LKI says his clients are victims, not perpetrators, of fraud Diamonds are not a Swiss bank’s best friend, or a
Big Soda Unmasked: It’s Not as Sweet as You Think
A review of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, by Bartow J. Elmore Since my fellow citizens and I in Berkeley recently approved a
AIG and Fannie Mae: We Bailed You Out and Now You Want What!?!
Americans were angry when Wall Street’s greedy and risky behavior triggered a global financial crisis in 2008. They were angrier still when the gove
ALEC Responds to Atlanta TV Station's Investigative Report
After our 11Alive Investigators report, the organization that put the corporations and lawmakers together at a Savannah resort is responding. WXI
Groups Add to Evidence in Tax Fraud Claim Against ALEC
Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy sent federal authorities new evidence today that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC
Monsanto: Altered Genes and Twisted Truth
The New Challenge to Monsanto In a challenge delivered to Monsanto’s headquarters on May 20, 2015, US public interest attorney Steven Druker c
Coca-Cola Executive is an ISIS Recruiter
IT Chief at Bangladesh Coca-Cola Unit Arrested as ISIS Suspect DHAKA — An IT manager at a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Co was one of two men arres
How Canada Made the Koch Brothers Rich
Author's note: Until this past February, I worked as a contracted television producer for Global TV and its current affairs program, 16x9. L
HBO Wins Libel Suit Over Depiction Of Child Labor by Mitre Sports, Inc.
By David Robb Deadline Hollywood, May 8, 2015 HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel has won a civil suit brought against it by Mitre Sports, the
The Saga of Koch Industries
Koch Industries owed its creation to Fred C. Koch (1900-1967), a chemical engineer who developed a new cracking method for the refinement of heavy oil
Barrick Gold: Neoconning the Public
Nigel Wright has been much in the news for the $90,172 cheque he signed over to Mike Duffy. Much less attention has been devoted to the scandalous imp
For Nazi Industrialists and Hitler’s Banker “All was Forgiven”
"... Germany had lost the war, the Nazi industrialists agreed, but the struggle would continue along new lines. The Fourth Reich would be a financial,
Koch Funding of Universities Shrouded in Secrecy
In a recent column entitled “The Campus Climate Crusade,” The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel spent over 800 words arguing the basic c
WikiLeaks Publishes 30,000 Leaked Sony Documents -- Some Concerning Ties to the Rand Corporation
Also see: WikiLeaks publishes huge archive of hacked Sony documents: "Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton is on the board of trustees of R
Monsanto Fights Report Tying Herbicide, Cancer
WASHINGTON – Monsanto Co. called on the World Health Organization on Tuesday to withdraw a claim that the most widely used weed killer in the world
US to Investigate Charge of Multiple Child Rapes by Dyncorp Employees in Colombia
"... The historian mentioned one 2004 case in the central Colombian town of Melgar where 53 underage girls allegedly were sexually abused by nearby st
SunTrust Agrees to Settlement Over Mortgage Abuse Accusations
More than 8,000 Floridians whose mortgages were serviced by SunTrust Mortgage Inc. and lost their homes to foreclosures between Jan. 1, 2008 and D
How Big Oil Gets Respected Scientists To Lie
March 21, 2015 By the 1950s, Big Tobacco knew smoking caused cancer. By the 1960s, the companies knew nicotine was addictive and
The History of Aspartame
Also see: Genetically Modified BACTERIA Used to Make NutraSweet Modified and Additional Material by Arthur M. Evangelista, a former FDA Investigat
The Right-Wing Money Behind the Right-to-Work Battle
The Republican-run Legislature is poised to pass and Gov. Scott Walker has promised to sign a fast-tracked bill that would turn Wisconsin into a
Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information: His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department o