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• *'Kochland': How The Koch Brothers Changed U.S. Corporate And Political Power (40 min)
  In his new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, Christopher Leonard chronicles how Koch Industries acquired huge businesses, limited its liability and created a political influence network to remake the GOP. Terry Gross interviews Leonard on Fresh Air.
• *Marketplace series on The Price of Profits - episodes
  Developed with The Business Insider
• *Marketplace - The price of profits
  A Marketplace Series with Business Insider The American corporation has been transformed by globalization and new technology. But equally powerful is the belief on Wall Street and in boardrooms that the sole responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profits for its shareholders.
• America's most admired companies
  Fortune Magazine, March 3, 1997 from Fortune Archive
• Apple Computer ups and downs, and Steve Jobs' return in 1997
  SOMETHING'S ROTTEN IN CUPERTINO AS CEO GIL AMELIO AND AN INEFFECTUAL BOARD DITHERED, APPLE COMPUTER LOST MARKET SHARE AND FADED INTO INSIGNIFICANCE. NOW STEVE JOBS HAS RETURNED, WITH A TURNAROUND STRATEGY THAT COULD MAKE APPLE HIS ONCE AGAIN. (FORTUNE Magazine) By BRENT SCHLENDER REPORTER ASSOCIATE WILTON WOODS March 3, 1997
• Concerns Over Monsanto’s Bid To Acquire The World’s Largest Supplier Of Pesticides
  Diane Rehm Show Concerns Over Monsanto’s Bid To Acquire The World’s Largest Supplier Of Pesticides Tuesday, Jun 09 2015 • 10 a.m. (ET)
• Credit report errors and credit scores
  From Consumers Union: Credit report errors are all too common and can mean higher interest rates for consumers on loans, pricier insurance premiums, and even missed job opportunities. Consumers also face challenges obtaining the same credit scores lenders use to evaluate their creditworthiness.
• Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
  By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
  
  In Fall, 2002, our book, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, was published jointly by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund as one in a series that addressed a variety of aspects of health policy. Briefly, the book looked at questions regarding how two industries, the lead industry and the chemical industry, reacted when faced with information regarding the potential dangers of their products to human health during the twentieth century.
• Eric Alterman - Liars for Hire - review of Merchants of Doubt
  A New Documentary Profiles Liars for Hire
  Today’s corporations have taken a page from the tobacco industry, fooling the public and undermining science in order to boost profits, no matter the human cost.
  Eric Alterman
  October 15, 2014 | This article appeared in the November 3, 2014 edition of The Nation.
• FairWarning - Thousands of Drones Fill the Skies, Raising Fears of Midair Collisions
  Thousands of Drones Fill the Skies, Raising Fears of Midair Collisions Rick Schmitt and Stuart Silverstein, February 10, 2016 "Industry officials say fears are overblown, and that they already are adding new safety features. “The record we have to date should speak for itself,” said Brendan Schulman, a vice president of DJI, the Chinese drone company that dominates the recreational market. “The recreational drone world has tens of millions of operational hours, I would estimate, and not a single fatality.” “This notion that something is going to happen one day is true of everything. … You could say it about lawnmowers,” Schulman said, alluding to federal figures indicating that about 110 people a year are killed by accidents involving lawnmowers, mainly riding lawnmowers. - See more at: http://www.fairwarning.org/2016/02/drone-story/#sthash.Y00xDZpQ.dpuf"
• Frontline - Firestone and the Warlord
  2014. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate an iconic American company’s secret history in Liberia.
• Gangster capitalism during the post-Soviet era
  Fortune Magazine, March 3, 1997
• How The Koch Brothers Remade America's Political Landscape
  "Brothers Charles and David Koch are the subject of the new book Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty" by Daniel Schulman of Mother Jones Magazine. Broadcast May 21, 2014 4:10 PM ET
• Isabel Macdonald - The GOP's Drug-Testing Dragnet
  The GOP's Drug-Testing Dragnet
  How Republicans and industry profiteers are targeting high school students, welfare applicants and the unemployed.
  Isabel Macdonald
  April 3, 2013 | This article appeared in the April 22, 2013 edition of The Nation.
  Recorded interview with the author at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdPYAlCaRE
• Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show
  Amy Brittain, Ashley Parker and Anu Narayanswamy; Washington Post, June 11, 2018
  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president’s daughter and son-in-law, brought in at least $82 million in outside income while serving as senior White House advisers during 2017, according to financial disclosure forms released Monday.
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Debt (HBO)
  John Oliver discusses student debt, which is awful, as well as for-profit colleges, who are awfully good at inflicting debt upon us.
• Law enforcement resources
  Private corporations are heavily involved in law enforcement and corrections.
• Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
  Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri. The Intercept, May 27, 2017 A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project.
• Mark Zimmerman: Developing a better attitude in Chapel Hill
  Commentary, News & Observer, May 1, 2016
• Merchants of Doubt
  YouTube video by one of the authors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio
• Michael J. Copps - The New Telecom Oligarchs
  The New Telecom Oligarchs
  
  In her book Captive Audience, Susan Crawford shows how media giants exert a stranglehold over consumers and government.
  
  Michael J. Copps
  April 3, 2013 | This article appeared in the April 22, 2013 edition of The Nation.
• Mother Jones - Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America's 10 Biggest Gunmakers
  With this investigation, Mother Jones set out to break through the opacity surrounding the $8 billion firearms industry and the men who control it. While the three largest companies disclose some financials, the rest are privately held. Some are further shrouded by private-equity funds or shell corporations based in overseas tax havens. We mined manufacturing data and import statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). We also examined obscure press clippings, court documents, private industry reports, and tax records from the Treasury Department. Together, the 10 companies we investigated produce more than 8 million firearms per year for buyers in the United States, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total market.
• Mother Jones - Steve Eisman's Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges
  Steve Eisman's Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges Andy Kroll, Mother Jones, May 27, 2010 "Steve Eisman, the outspoken investor whose huge wager against the subprime mortgage market was chronicled by author Michael Lewis in his bestselling book The Big Short, has set sights on a new target: for-profit colleges of the kind ... you might see advertised on daytime TV and at bus stops."
• Rob Moodie et al. - Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries
  Prof Rob Moodie, David Stuckler, Carlos Monteiro, Nick Sheron, Bruce Neal, Thaksaphon Thamarangsi, Paul Lincoln, Sally Casswell, on behalf of The Lancet NCD Action Group. Volume 381, No. 9867, p670–679, 23 February 2013 "The 2011 UN high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) called for multisectoral action including with the private sector and industry. However, through the sale and promotion of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink (unhealthy commodities), transnational corporations are major drivers of global epidemics of NCDs. What role then should these industries have in NCD prevention and control? We emphasise the rise in sales of these unhealthy commodities in low-income and middle-income countries, and consider the common strategies that the transnational corporations use to undermine NCD prevention and control. We assess the effectiveness of self-regulation, public–private partnerships, and public regulation models of interaction with these industries and conclude that unhealthy commodity industries should have no role in the formation of national or international NCD policy. Despite the common reliance on industry self-regulation and public–private partnerships, there is no evidence of their effectiveness or safety. Public regulation and market intervention are the only evidence-based mechanisms to prevent harm caused by the unhealthy commodity industries."
• The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
  By Michael Moss, NY Times Magazine, February 20, 2013
• The New Abolitionism
  Averting planetary disaster will mean forcing fossil fuel companies to give up at least $10 trillion in wealth.
  Christopher Hayes
  April 22, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 12, 2014 edition of The Nation.
• The Private Sector as a Catalyst for Health Equity and a Vibrant Economy: Proceedings of a Workshop
  Workshop Summary, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. August 30, 2016 Public-private partnerships are critical for a nation’s economic vitality, as demonstrated by the Affordable Care Act where community benefits have contributed to economic growth and health. Within this context, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities held a workshop on November 5, 2015, titled “The Private Sector as a Catalyst for Health Equity and a Vibrant Economy” to examine successes and combined future opportunities for growth and good health in public-private partnerships to further health prosperity. The primary focus of the workshop hinged on the private sector’s triple potential in economic opportunity (including workforce development), healthy work and community environments and in improving employee health.
• The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public
  David Montero | an excerpt adapted from Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network | Viking | November 2018 Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries.
• Time.com - Governors Lean Heavily on Industry-Funded Group on Offshore Drilling
  Governors Lean Heavily on Industry-Funded Group on Offshore Drilling
  Nicholas Kusnetz / Center for Public Integrity, Nov. 24, 2014
  Energy lobbying firm worked through industry-funded advocacy group to provide research and resources
• UNC-Chapel Hill gets $1M ‘signing bonus’ from Barnes & Noble
  Ray Gronberg, Herald-Sun, Sept. 2, 2016 UNC-Chapel Hill has taken the $1 million signing bonus paid by the campus bookstore's new operator to the bank, with Chancellor Carol Folt and her aides along the way offering a firm defense of their decision to privatize the store's management.
• United to Pay $2.4M to Settle With SEC Over NJ to SC Flight
  ABC News, Associated Press, Dec 2, 2016 Andrew Calamari, director of the SEC's New York regional office, said United started a money-losing flight just to curry favor with a public official and didn't give an accurate account of its reasons for the route and its likely financial impact. ... In a related criminal case, Samson, a longtime associate of Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, pleaded guilty to bribery and United paid $2.25 million to avoid prosecution.
• UPS to return $4 million from pricing settlement
  A brief item about corporate wrongdoing.
• US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims Oxfam report
  US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims Oxfam report Charity analysis of the 50 biggest US businesses claims Apple have $181bn held offshore, while General Electric has $119bn and Microsoft $108bn Rob Davies, The Guardian, 14 April 2016
• When companies hire temp workers by race, black applicants lose out
  When companies hire temp workers by race, black applicants lose out Will Evans / January 6, 2016 Audio and text.
• Why Lotus Notes is a software fantasy
  WHY LOTUS NOTES IS A SOFTWARE FANTASY (FORTUNE Magazine) By STEWART ALSOP REPORTER ASSOCIATE SHEREE R. CURRY March 3, 1997