David Moberg, In These Times. October 3, 2009. Wal-Mart's origins in the Ozarks created a patriarchal and religiously-tinged corporate culture that dominated the American marketplace.
Stacy Mitchell, New Rules Project. September 8, 2009. Hoping to capitalize on growing public enthusiasm for all things local, some of the world's biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word "local."
Frank Nelson, Miller-McCune.com. August 24, 2009. Wal-Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.
Art Levine, Huffington Post. May 20, 2009. A definitive study of anti-union campaigns finds that corporations are punishing workers seeking to form a union with a wide range of tactics.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 10, 2009. Proponents expect the measure to pass the House with relative ease, but opponents have a lot of lies up their sleeves.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. November 29, 2008. A worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Wal-Mart.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008. Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.
Kathy G, The G-Spot AlterNet: PEEK. August 14, 2008. Employees at Wal-Mart are fighting back against their union busting bosses, and now they have proof.
Jessehaf, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 4, 2008. Hillary is currently the top recipient of campaign contributions from Wal-Mart executives, taking in more than Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.
Karen Dolan, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 4, 2008. As frustration with the status quo in Washington rises, people are turning to local governments for action.
Reed McManus, Sierra Club. February 1, 2008. Wal-Mart hired former Sierra Club president Adam Werbach, but is the mega-retailer greening its business or just its image?
Andrea Buffa, Kathleen Maclay, AlterNet. December 6, 2007. Contrary to the cries of Big Business's Chicken Littles, public interest regulations that help workers get out from under the "Wal-Mart Model" of working in poverty don't hit consumers hard.
Sarah Anderson, AlterNet. November 20, 2007. The big-box company's new glossy environmental report can't hide that its fundamental problem is its business model.
Eric Haas, AlterNet. October 26, 2007. Editing tactics known as "white-washing" may compromise Wikipedia's future as a democratic source of reliable information.
Robert B. Reich, Alfred A. Knopf. September 26, 2007. The awkward truth is that most of us are two minds: As consumers and investors we want the great deals. As citizens we don't like many of the social consequences that flow from them.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet: PEEK. September 12, 2007. Tara Lohan: The retail giant wants to get on the popular eco-bandwagon, but Wal-Mart Watch won't let 'em.
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