Corporate gifts are still only a “tiny” .15 billion of the 6.23 billion in 2012. Of this sum almost a third goes to religious organizations. Isn’t is strange how the creator of everything under the heaven always needs more money?
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Big companies should report their impact on the environment in addition to their earnings under a UN plan to boost economic growth and ease poverty by 2030, according to recommendations by a panel of world leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Tim Cook warns Congress that he would refuse to repatriate 0bn stashed offshore unless US severely reduced its 35% tax rate
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The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is one of many tentacles descending from the US State Department and its National Endowment for Democracy (NED) front. Despite NED and NDI’s lofty mission statements about “promoting democracy worldwide,” the interests they represent are clearly those of the Fortune 500, including big-oil, retail, media, banking, and defense.
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Journalist Amy Goodman made the case for independent media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver on Saturday, saying the pro-war views of the corporate media networks were firmly entrenched.
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One of the least discussed and least reported issues is the Obama administration’s effort to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement to the forefront, an oppressive plurilateral US-led free trade agreement currently being negotiated with several Pacific Rim countries
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Why would one of the world’s most successful and innovative technology corporations research a highly controversial subject and risky future product opportunity such as E.S.P. (extrasensory perception) and then — oh by the way — tell the world they proved it existed?
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been hired by the Russian government to burnish the nationâs image overseas and attract more institutional investors.
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Citigroupâs conclusion: “Water as an asset class will, in my view, become eventually the single most important physical-commodity based asset class, dwarfing oil, copper, agricultural commodities and precious metals.”
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During the next three decades, the buyers would establish a ‘remarkable new nation’ of 35,000 people using private money, transforming the island into a quasi-autonomous state with its own government, currency and system of taxation.
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