Mark Harris, CounterPunch. September 7, 2009. Why Mackey's libertarian blast against health reform has touched a sensitive nerve with many health-conscious, reform-minded Americans.
tristero, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009. I, for one, plan on immediately shopping again at Whole Foods, assuming, of course, that they've cut all corporate ties with John Mackey.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. August 13, 2009. Robert Greenwald appears on the Ed Show to talk about Sick For Profit, a new campaign to expose the greed of big health insurance companies.
Pat Garofalo, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2009. Between 1979 and 2006, the inflation-adjusted after-tax income of the richest 1 percent of households increased by 256 percent.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. April 27, 2009. Join SEIU in demonstrations across the country tomorrow to protest the poster boy of corporate greed.
Harry Hanbury, Lagan Sebert, American News Project AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 17, 2009. CEOs of the biggest bailed-out banks finally appeared before Congress last week.
Nick Sabloff, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 14, 2009. While the stimulus bill didn't end up containing any caps on CEO salaries, it did set new limits on Wall Street bonuses.
Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. February 13, 2009. Those poor, unappreciated Wall Street execs keep whining about the prospect of pay caps. Someone pass a hankie.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. January 16, 2009. Some CEOs are taking pay cuts. But here's why it's really faux sympathy for truly struggling workers.
Staff, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 8, 2008. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released a statement regarding Thain's "chutzpah" in asking for the money.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 16, 2008. The "polluter pays" principle works in the environmental realm -- we can apply it to the financial meltdown too.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 10, 2008. It's good to reward the best and the brightest, but when those rewards are too great they become incentives for bad, and dumb, behavior.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. May 22, 2008. Contemporary CEOs can't lose, mainly because they take the bulk of their pay in stock.
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch. February 7, 2008. Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. August 31, 2007. This year's Executive Excess 2007 report found that "top executives averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, which is 364 times the pay of the average American worker."
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 31, 2007. Recent findings shed new light on the increasingly unequal terrain of American society. The new "top" involves pay in the hundreds of millions, a private jet and a few acres of Nantucket. The new bottom is slavery.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive. March 23, 2007. Home Depot salesclerks get about $8-$10 an hour for lifting heavy objects and running around the floor all day with no tips while its departed CEO got $210 million bonus for sinking the value of the company's stock.
