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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Great article explores the role that Shell played in shaping international investment law from 1957 to 1968, including investment protection #ISDS
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
"We hope our legal challenge can be a small stepping stone to building a healthcare system in the interest of health, not corporate profit."
Our director @nickdearden75 and director of @JustTreatment, @diarmaidmcd for @NewStatesman
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
May 17
Great op-ed on why the Global South should use the crisis precipitated by the U.S./Israeli war against Iran to transition from industrial agriculture to agroecology
May 16
"Agroecology is the way... to bring sustainability back into our food systems... What better argument do we need to prioritise local food systems, instead of fossil fuel-based fertilisers?"
— #AJOpinion by Ange-David Baïmey & Mónica Vargas Collazos ⤵️aje.news/vipmkk
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A detailed insight into the challenges posed to Kenya's society and tax base by expanding data centres.
May 10
There is a parallel between the polythene greenhouses of 1980s and the high-tech server farms of today.
From blooms to bytes: Will Kenya’s data center boom repeat the ‘Greenhouse Effect’?
An article by yours truly @juliusokoth published by @globalvoices globalvoices.org/2026/05/08/…
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
New QJE paper on France’s mandated profit-sharing: distributing excess profits to workers raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little effect on investment or productivity. Gains mainly go to lower-skilled workers; high-skilled pay unaffected.
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Our new investigation in today's @ObserverUK
More here:
taxwatchuk.org/private-justi…
May 3
HMRC could lose £1.5bn Glencore tax dispute in secret ‘all or nothing’ process bit.ly/42ccCtp
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Big Tech & Big Finance have manufactured the AI data centre boom, locking governments into structural dependencies while the public pays the price. Our latest report 'Licensed to Loot' is out - Have a read
#AI #BigTech
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Apr 16
Big Pharma is unable to produce the medicines we need at a price we can afford. I chatted to @DiarmidOS about how we can build a medicine system that really meets our needs.
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Apr 13
"The new information will be hugely beneficial, but there will still be some gaps" CICTAR's Jason Ward quoted in an excellent round up by Bloomberg of new tax transparency regimes. Australia described as the current 'gold standard' but more to do!
cictar.org/news/bloomberg/ne…
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Capitalism creates an "illusion of choice" by presenting numerous, superficial brand options that are actually owned by a few huge corporations, leveraging branding to create the appearance of competition, while controlling markets and restricting true choices to maximize profit.
They use the same ingredients on every product.
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Mar 23
I've joined 220 economists & legal scholars calling to #EndISDS, a policy that puts corporate profits over people & the environment.
Pres @PetroGustavo, this is a historic opportunity to lead an international alliance against ISDS.
Public Letter: bit.ly/GDP-ISDS
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
8/ The time to act is now—coordinated reserves releases & price caps, excess profit taxes, fair rationing protocols. Governments have the tools, hopefully for all they'll act. Full piece with @IsabellaMWeber no paywall at newstatesman.com/internation…
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Mar 10
🚨🚢#StraitofHormuz closed. Fertilizer and fuels blocked. Commodities prices are rising. This could be a crisis for industry. But a handful of huge grain traders have the power to turn a #supplychain choke into an opportunity for profit 🧵
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Feb 16
One clear example of the impact of the 15% global minimum tax on multinationals.
Take Shell, who for years thought it was clever to have 45 people in the Bahamas in charge of global trade, $30bn revenues and a tidy $1.6bn profit taxed at 0% until 2023...because come 2024
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Feb 10
Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way.
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power retweeted
Big Finance’s $500tn concentrated and interconnected power isn't just huge - it's too big to cool the planet, steering capital away from sustainable solutions into self-reinforcing action.
Here is our report balancedeconomy.org/s/Too-Bi…
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Jan 10
Trump’s economic warfare presents us with an opportunity - let’s take back control from the Big Tech monopolists.
Brilliant by @doctorow
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power is not posting on here any more because its owner is a vile human being.
Please follow @criticaltakes.bsky.social instead
I will repost useful takes by others, without comment.
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10 Dec 2025
Another one today from Democracy Challenged, which is highly recommended for critics of corporate power.
"Political science has spent decades studying how governments tax corporations. The more urgent question is how corporations construct the income governments try to tax."
10 Dec 2025
When Law Becomes Wealth.
In an IP-based economy, value is not just produced - it is classified, allocated and sheltered through law and accounting.
My latest essay explains why political science must study this:
democracychallenged.com/2025…
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10 Dec 2025
Good take on US corporations here, which notes that:
1. You can't respond to inequality without taking on the wealth-concentrating power of the corporation as an institution.
2. There's a hierarchy of US corporate power which concentrates profit in the biggest firms.
9 Dec 2025
Want to understand the US broligarchy?
Look to profit concentration.
From our @ERC_Research Democracy Challenged data: a tiny number of corporate groups capture most US profits — built through IP law, tax code and cross border accounting.
🔗 democracychallenged.com/2025…
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10 Dec 2025
I'd go further and say that tax policy, by itself, is not a strong enough instrument to curb this concentrated power. The nature of the institution has to change.
Here are some ideas from people about how to do that.
criticaltakes.org/the-corpor…
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