Corporate Power/accountability News

Fair Trade and Smart Energy Message Taken to Ohio
August 11, 2025 - Sierra Club
On June 7th, the Sierra Club joined the United Steelworkers (USW), the largest private sector manufacturing union, to pursue a joint message of "Good Jobs, A Clean Environment, and A Safer World."  Go...

An organic foods dilemma
August 6, 2025 - Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick, SF Chronicle
They're mass-produced by agribiz but better than eating poisons.  Go...

NAM backs Bush for insisting on Doha Round ambition
July 24, 2025 - Reliable Plant news service
The National Association of Manufacturers on July 24 commended the Bush Administration and particularly the U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Susan Schwab, for refusing to agree to an unambitious outcome to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.  Go...

Corporate America's Hidden Risks
June 28, 2025 - Marc Gunther, FORTUNE Magazine
In areas ranging from labor standards to climate change, companies are realizing that merely managing their legal liability isn't enough to meet rising societal expectations of corporate behavior. Companies would do well to examine their "moral liability" and take an active part in the solution to these and other issues.  Go...

An Open Letter to Greg Palast on Peak Oil
July 9, 2025 - Richard Heinberg, Guerrilla News Network
A leading Peak Oil educator responds to claims the oil isn't running out.  Go...

A radical centrist on globalism & trade
July 1, 2025 - Bill Center, Seattle PI Blogs
Friday I received a phone call from a friend asking me to participate in a panel discussion of globalization. Not one of my favorite things to do...  Go...

Theodore Levitt, who coined term 'globalization,' dies at 81
July 6, 2025 - ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELMONT, Mass. --Theodore Levitt, the former Harvard Business Review editor who coined the term "globalization," has died. He was 81. Levitt first used the term "globalization" in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article about the emergence of standardized, low-priced consumer products. He defined that globalization as the changes in social behaviors and technology which allowed companies to sell the same products around the world.  Go...

The Second Globalisation of Soccer
June 16, 2025
The worldwide triumph of soccer (and the soccer business)  Go...

IBM chief calls for MNCs to end 'colonial approach' to foreign ops - report
June 12, 2025 - Forbes.com
Sam Palmisano, head of IBM, called on multinationals to evolve into a new type of corporation if they are to avoid an anti-globalization backlash that leads to the election of governments hostile to the interests of big business.  Go...

Globalization Leaving Many Behind, Says Holy See
June 14, 2025 - ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Millions of workers advance the global economy without themselves enjoying "decent work," a Holy See official told the International Labor Organization.  Go...

Wal-Mart Eyes Organic Foods
May 12, 2025 - MELANIE WARNER, New York Times
Starting this summer, there will be a lot more organic food on supermarket shelves, and it should cost a lot less.  Go...

Funder Convening on Globalization
June 1, 2025 - FNTG
New Perspectives, Key Strategies, Success Stories and Funder Opportunities

San Francisco Bay Area Evening of June 6 – June 8, 2025

Join a community of funders from diverse fields and perspectives to analyze global trends and the evolving discourse around globalization, to share and celebrate successful civil society strategies, and to discuss how funders can use our resources most effectively to support positive change in these most fundamental driving forces, both at home and abroad.

* Mapping the global economy, and exploring terrains of intervention

* The changing discourse on globalization: Where is it now and where is it going?

* Revisiting trade, poverty and development… with new data

* Globalization of human rights: Breakthroughs and continuing challenges

* Bringing it home: Local organizing in a global context

* International cooperation vs. global domination, for security in an insecure world

* Funder Opportunities: What does it all mean; how do we continue moving forward?

For program details and registration please click here:  Go...

Critics Plan Offensive as IMF-World Bank Crisis Deepens
April 27, 2025 - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart of Washington, DC. There were almost no protesters in sight.  Go...

Globalization: Corporate earnings soar
April 10, 2025 - Fin Facts
... as wage growth stalls in Developed World; Wages rising in China  Go...

Global Justice: Another US is Possible
February 15, 2025 - Tanya Dawkins, Global-Local Links Project, Yes Magazine
The World Social Forum and its ambitious rallying call, “Another World is Possible” responded to a hunger for a different kind of possibilities-oriented dialogue that embraces principles of pluralism, deep debate, respect, justice, and an internationalist perspective. A broad-based network of U.S.-based activists, grassroots organizations, and their allies are betting that a similar hunger exists in the U.S. and that this is a time when a social forum could be a vehicle for moving a social, environmental and economic justice agenda to center stage in the United States.  Go...

WTO: EU broke trade rules by stopping genetically modified food imports
February 7, 2025 - Sam Cage, ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA – The WTO has ruled that the EU broke international trade rules by stopping imports of genetically modified foods, officials said Tuesday.  Go...

The Greening of Goldman Sachs
January 3, 2025 - Traci Hukill, AlterNet
One of the world's leading investment banks concedes there are real financial costs to ignoring the environment -- and they don't intend to get stuck paying them.  Go...

A Salve for Globalization's Pains
August 31, 2024 - Paul Magnusson, BusinessWeek
A tiny government program helps small manufacturers fend off overseas rivals. Problem is, its funding is currently uncertain  Go...

Two New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.  Go...

China on global hunt to quench its thirst for oil
June 26, 2025 - Robert Collier, San Francisco Chronicle
Move over, Big Oil. There's a new oilman on the world stage -- China.  Go...

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