Green Change

Give BP America the Corporate Death Penalty, Green Change Campaign Says

Wed, 16 Jun 2010

Today, Green Change started a campaign to revoke the corporate charter of BP America Inc., the company responsible for the catastrophic oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

Give BP the corporate death penalty

Sun, 06 Jun 2010

Pardon the sacrilege, but for a real deterrent, it's time to institute a corporate death penalty -- and BP is a perfect candidate. That sort of retribution would be divine.

Elena Kagan: Another pro-Monsanto Supreme Court justice?

Wed, 12 May 2010

It's a good thing for Elena Kagan that there's no non-GMO litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. She'd flunk.

Caroline Lucas becomes Britain's first Green MP

Fri, 07 May 2010

The win is a breakthrough for the party after more than 20 years of campaigning in Britain. It is also a significant moment for the UK Parliament, as the only major European legislature that has never had a Green MP before.

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

Wed, 05 May 2010

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.

Noam Chomsky: US is "very similar to late Weimar Germany”

Mon, 19 Apr 2010

Noam Chomsky is America's greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate.

The new party of big business: Democrats best Republicans in fundraising from nearly every industry

Sun, 04 Apr 2010

Democrats won larger shares from nearly every industry. Even most contributions from the health-care industry went to Democrats, reflecting in part pharmaceutical and hospital industry support for the new health-care law.

Obama thrills Big Oil by opening vast areas of Atlantic, Alaskan coasts to drilling

Wed, 31 Mar 2010

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

Obama gives key agriculture post to Monsanto man

Sat, 27 Mar 2010

Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.

US Sen. Brown wants to limit the size of banks

Thu, 25 Mar 2010

Reestablishing a cap on the size of banks -- one small enough not only to limit mergers among giants in the future but to require an orderly break-up of the biggest banks -- ought to be a key pillar of financial reform.

Obama administration denying more FOIA requests than Bush

Sun, 21 Mar 2010

The Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his predecessor, George W. Bush, as the most secretive in history, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than the Republican did.

Obama, Clinton fundraiser admits $292 million fraud

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

A wealthy businessman who raised money for leading Democratic Party politicians, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding three major banks out of $292.2 million in loan transactions.

Obama made deals with lobbyists to bury public option

Thu, 18 Mar 2010

Even while Obama was saying that he thought a public option was a good idea and encouraging supporters to believe his healthcare plan would include one, he had promised for-profit hospital lobbyists that there would be no public option in the final bill.

Guns in Starbucks: Another reason to stay away

Tue, 09 Mar 2010

The coffee mega chain, which made the Fortune 500 by convincing millions of us that $3 coffee is more critical than water for morning hydration, caved into a grassroots campaign of gun owners who are testing "open-carry" laws by dropping in at popular establishments and flaunting their firearms.

US environmental groups corrupted by dirty corporate money

Fri, 05 Mar 2010

Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters--and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant.