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Explores the role of Ida Tarbell and other journalists called "muckrackers" whose work exposed corruption and scandals, and discusses how their work impacted the future of investigative journalism. Includes a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.

Presents a collection of reports by investigative journalist Greg Palast in which he provides evidence to support his claims of wrongdoing in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, as well as by Wal-Mart, the World Bank, Pat Robertson, and other individuals, organizations, and corporations.

"When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--Provided by publisher.

The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before. Far from being selfless, plutocratic philanthropy may be the ultimate profit-making tool. Author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope--paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve.

Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home.

"When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds"--.

Sully, one of the top scarers for the Monsters, Inc. company, discovers a plot to kidnap human children for their screams.

Contains articles that provide a variety of perspectives on corporate corruption and its effects on democracy, the rights of individuals, the economy, and other aspects of American life.

"A popular uprising against big government led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system. The network has brought together some of the richest people on the planet. Their core beliefs-that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is anassault on freedom-are sincerely held. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interests: Many of their companies have run afoul of federal pollution, worker safety, securities, and tax laws."--Amazon.

The Committee is an international cabal, an online oligarchy, that is nearing its goal of privatizing all information. Standing in the cabal's way is Dear Diary, an online underground battling to keep information free for everyone. Into the middle of this shadow conflict come Leila Majnoun, Leo Crane, and Mark Dveraux. Mark doesn't know it, but he is working for the Committee. Leo, formerly Mark's friend, writes a scathing review of Mark's online work, but the Committee deletes his words. Across the world, Leila discovers the Committee's ambitions could threaten the lives of her loved ones.