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Robert Weissman
Robert Weissman is president of Public Citizen and a staunch public interest advocate and activist, as well as an expert on corporate and government accountability. He worked as director of the corporate accountability organization Essential Action from 1995 to 2009. From 1989 to 2009, he was editor of the Multinational Monitor, a magazine that tracked multinational corporations. Weissman helped make HIV drugs available to the developing world and has provided assistance to numerous governments on intellectual property and access to medicine issues. He previously worked as a public interest attorney at the Center for Study of Responsive Law.
For 30 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have remade much of the developing world according to a market…
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Philip Morris International today starts business as an independent company, no longer affiliated with Philip Morris USA or the parent company, Altria.…
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Deborah Platt Majoras, is leaving her job. She’s going to become vice president and…
As part of a national day of action, hundreds of people marched in downtown Washington, D.C. this morning to protest five years…
There have been few experiments as reckless, overhyped and with as little potential upside as the rapid rollout of genetically modified crops.…
No one blinks when the editor of a magazine called Multinational Monitor (that’s me) suggests that multinational corporate interests diverge from and…
There was a time, not so long ago, when U.S. governmental hypocrisy on human rights and corporate interests was at least acknowledged.…
A November 2007 Harris poll found that less than 15 percent of the population believes each of the following industries to be…