Corporate Power/accountability
How Grant Makers Can Curb Global Warming
March 14, 2025 - Stephen Viederman, The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Two recent reports on foundations and climate change demonstrate the chasm between financial and philanthropic investing... Sadly, but not surprisingly, neither report gives even a hint that financial investment of foundations' endowments could have value... Foundations should vote their proxies on climate change.
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Losing Forests to Fuel Cars; Ethanol Sugarcane Threatens Brazil's Wooded Savanna
July 31, 2025 - Sabrina Valle, Washington Post
Jaguars, blue macaws and giant armadillos roam the fickle landscape of
Brazil's Cerrado, a vast plateau where temperatures range from freezing to
steaming hot and bushes and grasslands alternate with forests and the
richest variety of flora of all the world's savannas. That could soon come to an end.
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R.I.P. Trade Promotion Authority
May 31, 2025 - Thomas I. Palley, Economics for Democratic & Open Societies Project
Trade promotion authority (TPA) - formerly known as fast-track negotiating authority - is set to expire on June 30, 2007. As a result, the Bush Administration and business interests are now lobbying Congress for its renewal. However, there are strong reasons to not just let TPA temporarily lapse, but also to permanently bury it.
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SECRET TRADE DEAL - DAY 10
May 21, 2025 - David Sirota, blog
Bush Says Deal Will Be Merely Side Agreements; Pundits Say “Dems Can’t Afford to Listen to the Labor Movement”
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Initial backgrounder and talking points on trade "deal" announced May 10th, 2007
May 11, 2025 - Global Trade Watch
On May 10, 2007, in a surprise press conference late in the day, Bush administration officials, Speaker Pelosi, House and Senate Democratic and GOP trade committee leaders and New Democrat Coalition members unveiled the outline of a “deal” to facilitate new “bipartisan cooperation” on trade.
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