Thirty companies paid no income tax 2008-2010: report | Reuters

Thirty companies paid no income tax 2008-2010: report | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Thirty large and profitable U.S. corporations paid no income taxes in 2008 through 2010, said a study on Thursday that arrives as Congress faces rising demands for tax reform, but seems unable or unwilling to act."

Cozy relationships and ‘peer benchmarking’ send CEOs’ pay soaring - The Washington Post

Cozy relationships and ‘peer benchmarking’ send CEOs’ pay soaring - The Washington Post

Occupy Wall Street ends capitalism's alibi | Richard Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Occupy Wall Street ends capitalism's alibi | Richard Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: "This protest pinpoints how dysfunctional our economic system is: we must refashion it for human needs, not corporate aims"

Shrinking corporate officer pay | David Cay Johnston

Shrinking corporate officer pay | David Cay Johnston: "As a group, corporate officers — executives with broad authority to act on the company’s behalf, not just follow orders from the CEO or some other boss — are making less, not more, my analysis of newly available tax data shows.

This is in sharp contrast with the thoroughly documented excesses at the very top revealed through analysis of disclosures to shareholders. The new tax data includes CEOs, but the few score of wildly overpaid ones at the biggest companies become statistically insignificant within the universe of nearly a million corporate officers covered in the new tax data."

Analysis: Tobacco warnings latest business free-speech case | Reuters

Analysis: Tobacco warnings latest business free-speech case | Reuters

Corporations are more likely to get the right to free speech than citizens; and the FBI, CIA or NYPD will not bug or infiltrate the corporations as they do to individuals who exercise their free speech rights.