“The resolution is a rhetorical statement, but it makes things really ugly,” Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams. “This resolution says that the elected representatives of the American people are standing...
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams that the U.S. “no” vote is part of a larger pattern. “The U.S. is the reason why the United Nations is not able to play the role its charter requires, which is to stop...
Published Wednesday, the report—Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean (pdf)—by the Institute for Policy Studies reveals that group member corporations could gain as much as $173 billion in “windfalls” should Congress adopt the group’s...
“The performance pay loophole serves as a critical subsidy for excessive compensation,” says the report. “The larger the executive payout, the less the corporation pays in taxes. And average taxpayers wind up footing the bill.” According to the...
