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Information / campaigning organisations |
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ALEC Exposed | how corporate lobbyists produce ‘model bills’ for US politicians to introduce as their own – in secret, and funded by taxpayers |
ATTAC | working towards global democratic alternatives |
Center for Corporate Policy | US group ‘working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable’ |
Center for Science in the Public Interest | monitoring corporate influence in science |
Corporate Europe Observatory | exposing the power of corporate lobbying in the EU |
Corporate Watch UK | not-for-profit researching the social and environmental effects of corporate power |
Corporate Watch US | ditto in the US |
Democracy Without Borders | promoting global democracy |
Lobby Watch | monitoring corporate influence on democracy |
Open Secrets | US site exposing money’s influence on US elections and public policy |
Organic Consumers’ Association | fighting the corporate food industry |
Political Compass | find out if you are left-wing, right-wing, authoritarian or libertarian – also find out which people and political parties are closest to you |
Reclaim Democracy | US group offering information and training in citizen participation in real democracy |
Source Watch | information about the unelected individuals and groups who shape the public agenda |
Tax Justice Network | campaigning for a fairer tax system, including closing tax haven loopholes |
Tescopoly | alliance of organisations fighting the growing power of supermarkets |
Think Tank Watch | listing of corporate think tanks working to extend and strengthen corporate influence |
Media, advertising & PR |
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Adbusters | global network changing the way information flows, and producing spoof ads |
GM Watch | exposing deceptive PR campaigns to promote GM food |
Media Lens | monitoring the objectivity of the mainstream media |
Project Censored | project based at a US university, to highlight news stories that are under-reported or censored in the mainstream media |
PR Watch | exposing corporate corruption – esp. the Koch brothers |
Corporate organisations |
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Bildeberg Group | annual, secret meeting of around 130 of the world’s top industrialists, financiers, politicians and opinion-formers; we can’t say what the meeting is for exactly, as it’s secret |
Council on Foreign Relations | corporate group with a mission to remove democratic control over corporations |
Trilateral Commission | corporate group founded by David Rockerfeller to, well, to undermine democracy, it seems |
Corporate information |
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Campaigners’ Guide to Financial Markets | lots of useful advice about obtaining information about corporations and financial institutions |
The Network of Global Corporate Control | mathematical model that shows how the global economy is controlled by a tiny group of enormous financial institutions |
Transnationale | huge database of multinational corporations, who owns them and what brands they own |
Articles & information |
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CounterPunch | how corporate power killed democracy |
the Guardian | the corporate take-over of American schools |
the Guardian | article on how billionaires prevent democracy in the US via ‘superPAC’ funding |
the Guardian | article on how McDonald’s and Pepsico help write UK health policy |
Monbiot.com | information about think tanks that exist to increase corporate power |
Reclaim Democracy | branded: corporations in our schools |
TED | James Glattfelder on who controls the world |
Vampire Squid 1 | Famous Matt Taibbi ‘giant vampire squid’ article about Goldman Sachs’ political influences |
Vampire Squid 2 | BlackRock – the new giant vampire squid |