Articles with corporations Tag

Obama: “Yes, I’m in a Can”

Let’s look a little further at what ails Obama—and us. It’s about the pretty small part of the One Percent that really calls the shots, and keeps a president from doing what he surely knows he must.

George Carlin on “The American Dream”: A Few Dirty Words and A Whole Lot of Sense

If George Carlin were still with us, we’d have recruited him for the WhoWhatWhy advisory board. He had a certain clarity about the world that is sadly lacking. Accept no substitute….

Getting Real on Budgets—and Who Won’t Budge

Now’s the time to shake off the slumber and look—gasp—look at who’s really benefitting from the shutdown threat.

Take the Quiz: Qaddafi & Immelt–Good or Bad?

Here’s a quiz: Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi: Good or bad? How about GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt? Here are your answers, straight from the top: Qaddafi, way bad. And Immelt? Good guy, business and civic leader. Should be a key adviser to the president. On Qaddafi, we already knew he was a...

Corporate Tool

Here’s a useful tool for finding out what US-based transnational corporations are doing around the world. Go to a website called Croctail, where you can search domestic and foreign subsidiaries of publicly traded companies. (Hat tip to www.dirtdiggersdigest.org which brought it to my attention, and to...