- Liquefied Natural Cash: New Report Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Exploitation of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Calls on Biden Admin to Act Liquefied Natural Cash: New Report Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Exploitation of Russia’s War in Ukraine, Calls on Biden Admin to Act https://www.citizen.org/news/liquefied-natural-cash-new-report-exposes-the-fossil-fuel-industrys-exploitation-of-russias-war-in-ukraine-calls-on-biden-admin-to-act/ 3 comments worldnews
- Military-Industrial Complex Clinches Nearly 450,000% Return on Investment - After Industry Gives $10 Million to Congressional Defense Committee Members, DOD Receives Potential $45 Billion Spending Increase https://www.citizen.org/article/military-industrial-complex-contributions-report/ 11 comments economy
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Members Have Paid $154 Billion in Penalties: No Wonder the “World’s Largest Business Organization” Is Furious the FTC Is Cracking Down on Corporate Crime https://www.citizen.org/article/us-chamber-penalties-violations-ftc-report/ 42 comments politics
- Big Oil’s $100 Billion Bender - Public Citizen - How The U.S. Government Provided a Safety Net for the Flagging Fossil Fuel Industry https://www.citizen.org/article/big-oils-100-billion-bender/ 4 comments politics
- Paying Twice for a Vaccine: Moderna is Taking Taxpayers For a Ride https://www.citizen.org/news/paying-twice-for-a-vaccine-moderna-is-taking-taxpayers-for-a-ride/ 11 comments politics
- It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors https://www.citizen.org/news/its-time-to-cut-the-bloated-pentagon-budget-to-fund-people-not-military-contractors/ 115 comments politics
- The Toxic Horror Story of Nancy Beck https://www.citizen.org/news/the-toxic-horror-story-of-nancy-beck/ 7 comments politics
- Mnuchin is Keeping $500 Billion in Bailout Funds Secret https://www.citizen.org/news/keeping-500-billion-in-bailout-funds-secret/ 41 comments politics
- New Orleans Backs Medicare for All, Emergency Coronavirus Legislation https://www.citizen.org/news/new-orleans-backs-medicare-for-all-emergency-coronavirus-legislation/ 3 comments politics
- All Insurers Must Make Coronavirus Tests, Treatment Free to Patients - More Than 80 Groups Urge Companies to Waive All Patient Costs https://www.citizen.org/news/all-insurers-must-make-coronavirus-tests-treatment-free-to-patients/ 26 comments politics
- Hospital administrators are muzzling docs and nurses from speaking out on COVID-19 case overloads and extreme supply shortages. - Trying to gag health care workers on the front lines is beyond disgraceful and will only lead to more deaths. https://www.citizen.org/news/muzzling-doctors-and-nurses-on-coronavirus-shortages-is-reprehensible/ 178 comments politics
- How Medicare for All Would Have Improved U.S. Response to Pandemic. Policy Would Better Help Track and Manage Pandemic, End Profiteering. https://www.citizen.org/news/how-medicare-for-all-would-have-improved-u-s-response-to-pandemic/ 22 comments politics
- Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger to the Country. He Must Resign. https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-is-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-the-country-he-must-resign/ 88 comments politics
- Impeachment Was Necessary to Protect Our Democracy https://www.citizen.org/news/impeachment-was-necessary-to-protect-our-democracy/ 14 comments politics
- The U.S. Health Care System Is a Disaster. In Texas, It’s Even Worse. Second-Most Populous State Leads Nation in Uninsured Adults and Children, and Pharmaceutical Spending https://www.citizen.org/news/the-u-s-health-care-system-is-a-disaster-in-texas-its-even-worse/ 11 comments politics
- Surge in Opposition Lobbying and Advocacy Validates the Credibility of the Medicare for All Movement https://www.citizen.org/article/fever-pitch-medicare-for-all-lobbying/ 5 comments politics
- New Hampshire Poised to Become the 20th State to Support a Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United https://www.citizen.org/news/new-hampshire-poised-to-become-the-20th-state-to-support-a-constitutional-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united/ 205 comments politics
- ‘Self-Funded’ Trump Now Propped Up by Super PAC Megadonors: Ultrawealthy Donors Plow Millions Into Trump’s Political Operation, Despite Previous Promises https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/%E2%80%98self-funded%E2%80%99-trump-now-propped-super-pac-megadonors 40 comments politics
- Federal Trade Commission's Andrew Smith Has Conflicts With 120 Companies. How Can He Do His Job? https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/federal-trade-commissions-andrew-smith-has-conflicts-120-companies-how-can-he 5 comments politics
- Penalties for Corporate Violations Plummet by Double Digits Under Trump https://www.citizen.org/media/press-releases/penalties-corporate-violations-plummet-double-digits-under-trump 6 comments politics
- Public Citizen Files Complaint Alleging Trump Adviser’s Activities May Have Violated Federal Lobbying Laws http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=10195 3 comments politics
- ISDS: Expanding Corporate Power to Attack Laws in Every State http://www.citizen.org/state-by-state-isds-liability 11 comments politics
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): More Job Offshoring, Lower Wages, Unsafe Food Imports http://www.citizen.org/tpp 482 comments politics
- TPP Study Projects Worsening Trade Balances for 16 of 25 U.S. Economic Sectors, Overall U.S. Trade Deficit Increase http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-usitc-study-press-release.pdf 7 comments politics
- TPP Leak Reveals Extraordinary New Powers for Thousands of Foreign Firms to Challenge U.S. Policies and Demand Taxpayer Compensation https://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=5454 11 comments politics
- TPP Leak Reveals Extraordinary New Powers for Thousands of Foreign Firms to Challenge U.S. Policies and Demand Taxpayer Compensation http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-investment-leak-2015-release.pdf 16 comments geopolitics
- The TPP is a massive, controversial "free trade" agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. http://www.citizen.org/tpp 33 comments worldnews
- The GOP "Patient Care Act" - simply by allowing "sales across state lines" would set in motion a chain of events creating an irreversible one way "WTO trap" that would forever eliminate the US's ability to pursue any other kind of health care in the future, blocking single payer. http://www.citizen.org/documents/usa.pdf 293 comments politics
- Public Citizen to Argue Before Virginia Supreme Court to Uphold Constitutional Rights of Yelp Reviewers http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4316 3 comments politics
- World Trade Organization Rules Against Popular U.S. Country-of-Origin Meat Labels on Which Consumers Rely http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4293 15 comments worldnews
- Attack on Affordability of Cancer Treatments Revealed in New WikiLeaks Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Text http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4312 9 comments worldnews
- Attack on Affordability of Cancer Treatments Revealed in New WikiLeaks Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Text http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4312 3 comments politics
- 131 members of Congress protest "national treatment" clauses in trade deals that eliminate Buy American provisions in local, state and national procurements. (The 3 FTAs will also ban public healthcare and programs like the 1930s WPA) http://www.citizen.org/documents/edwards-jones-letter-buy-american-tpp-july-2014.pdf 8 comments economy
- “If the text that was leaked today went into force, it would roll back the improvements made after the global financial crisis to safeguard consumers and financial stability and cement us into the extreme deregulatory model of the 1990s that led to the crisis in the first place" https://www.citizen.org/documents/statement-tisa-wikileaks.pdf 11 comments politics
- Google opens new DC office as big as White House less than a mile away, No. 2 company in lobbying spending two of the past three years, and No. 5 last year – making it the most active lobbying company in the tech industry http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=4211 62 comments technology
- (TPP)"also includes the controversial investor-state enforcement system and extensive investor rights and privileges that could conflict with signatory countries’health, environmental and other policies.The investor-state system elevates individual corporations to the same status of sovereign Sta" https://www.citizen.org/documents/general-exception.pdf 3 comments economy
- Road Map to 'Single Payer': How States Can Escape the Clutches of the Private Health Insurance System http://www.citizen.org/road-map-to-single-payer-health-care-report 47 comments politics
- [Stock Act] Congress quickly and quietly approved legislation over the past 24 hrs to repeal major portions of disclosure requirements designed to ensure enforcement of the nation’s new law against congressional insider trading. http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=3863 59 comments politics
- Nevada Committee Approves Resolution to Overturn Citizens United http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=3853 3 comments politics
- "Although Colbert’s request is in jest and intends to put a spotlight on the enormous electioneering influence that corporations have, it's important to note that if the FEC...granted [him SuperPAC status], federal campaign finance laws and regulations would be gutted": Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?id=3370 3 comments politics