Watch and learn how big business’ secret plan led to the political situation — and financial wreck — we’re in today

Lobbyists and Congress are in bed with the banks, but the American people are the ones getting screwed

What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of

As Americans, we buy a lot of crap, but we’ve finally stopped buying this lie. What’s good for big business is not good for America.

Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on fraud charges filed against Goldman Sachs and conservative opposition to clearly much-needed financial regulation. Plus my video about Goldman Sachs’ “death bond” scheme

To Sarah Palin, investigating safety violations and saving miners’ lives would have been a horrible abuse of “big government”. Something tells me, the grieving families in West Virginia would disagree.

While as a country we keep pushing for tougher law-and-order treatment of individual crimes, massive and monstrous corporate crimes are routinely overlooked by our political system (which is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America).

As of today, over 300,000 people have watched the latest brilliant video from Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff team. Have you seen it?

In 1816, Thomas Jefferson prayed, “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” Almost 200 years later, our work is still cut out for us

It’s critical that we see this moment not as a unique snapshot in one new presidency amidst an economic downturn but rather a moment of truth bared in a too-long history of elite interests playing puppet with our government and deceiving us all that democracy is the rule