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Obama’s smog decision backed by big business donors

By Yana Kunichoff | 09.21.11 | 10:23 am

Obama for America, the President’s reelection group, received money from seven of the top twenty air polluters.

MSNBC won’t air MoveOn.org’s boycott-Target ad

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.19.10 | 10:00 am

MSNBC and its parent, General Electric, refuse to air MoveOn.org’s ad calling for a boycott of Target, stating the spot doesn’t “comply with NBC’s ‘Controversial Issue Advertising policy,’ because the ad is a direct attack on an individual…

Calling it ‘dumb,’ GE’s Welch quits as high priest of shareholder-value cult

By Chris Steller | 03.13.09 | 2:53 pm

e71a8131-7a79-43fc-8a9d-5e349ab91e84Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch has declared corporations’ pursuit of shareholder value above all else “the dumbest idea in the world.” With shareholder values generally in free fall as multinationals and even nations teeter on the verge of…