| 2015-03-26 | Saudi Arabia Launches Yemen Intervention Armed with Billions in Raytheon Weapons, Beginning Eight-Year Atrocity
4 src Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-03-09 | Wisconsin Becomes 25th Right-to-Work State, Completing ALEC's Union Destruction
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-23 | "Corinthian 15" Launch First Student Debt Strike in U.S. History
3 src Arne Duncan |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | West Virginia Suffers Highest Per-Capita Opioid Rate, 67 Pills Per Person Annually
3 src Purdue Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-21 | Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion"
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-12 | Federal Government Cuts Off Corinthian Colleges - 72,000 Students Trapped by Fraud
3 src U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · Arne Duncan |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-01 | Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability
5 src Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley |
| confirmed |
| 2013-10-24 | NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders
3 src National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Wells Fargo Fires 5,300 Low-Level Workers While Executives Keep Jobs
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language
3 src Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Koch brothers |
| confirmed |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-04 | Bureau Investigation Exposes CIA Double-Tap Drone Strikes Killing Rescuers and Mourners
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-29 | New York Times Exposes Obama's Kill List and Terror Tuesday Assassination Meetings
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · National Right to Work Committee · Koch brothers |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders
3 src Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2011-11-29 | Michigan Emergency Manager Seizes Control of Flint, Stripping Democratic Governance
3 src Rick Snyder · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-30 | U.S. Drone Strike Assassinates Anwar al-Awlaki, American Citizen, Without Trial
4 src Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan | | confirmed |
| 2011-09-18 | Amazon Lehigh Valley Warehouse Heat Exhaustion Scandal Exposed
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2011-07-13 | ALEC Exposed: Leaked Documents Reveal 800 Corporate-Written Model Bills
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-17 | CIA Drone Strike Massacres 42 Civilians at Pakistani Tribal Council Meeting
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-04 | GAO Investigation Exposes Systemic For-Profit College Fraud - Industry Takes 25% of Federal Aid
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority
3 src Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2009-10-06 | Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
3 src Al Franken · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · United States Senate · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-03-10 | Employee Free Choice Act Abandoned Despite Democratic Supermajority, Corporate Lobbying Victory
3 src Barack Obama · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Business Roundtable · AFL-CIO · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-23 | Obama Dramatically Expands CIA Drone Strike Program - Ten Times More Strikes Than Bush
4 src Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Americans for Prosperity Organizational Profile: Koch Brothers' Astroturf Empire Manufacturing Fake Grassroots Movements
4 src Americans for Prosperity · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-05 | Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs
2 src Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Dick Cheney · Senate Armed Services Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University
3 src Stephen Miller |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · State Department · Al Franken |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt
3 src Bain Capital · KKR |
| confirmed |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024)
3 src Corinthian Colleges · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Models Achieve Nationwide Adoption, Guaranteeing Private Prison Profits
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-01 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC |
| reported |
| 2004-01-08 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand
6 src Donald Trump · NBC · Mark Burnett | | confirmed |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program
3 src U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-15 | NSA Awards AT&T $500 Million Multi-Year Surveillance Infrastructure Contract
3 src George W. Bush · Michael Hayden |
| confirmed |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture
4 src State Policy Network · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · Mackinac Center · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-10-08 | Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley Against Locked-Out Dockworkers, First Use Since 1971
6 src George W. Bush · U.S. District Court | | confirmed |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program
3 src John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets
3 src Bernard Ebbers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era
2 src American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation
3 src Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-01 | ALEC Adopts Paycheck Protection Act to Defund Democratic Party by Restricting Union Political Activity
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Scott Walker |
| confirmed |
| 1997-08-19 | UPS Strike Ends in Rare Labor Victory, Teamsters Win Part-Time Worker Protections
3 src AFL-CIO | | confirmed |
| 1997-08-01 | Northrop Grumman B-2 Bomber Program Reaches $44 Billion Total Cost
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act Ends Welfare Entitlement
4 src Bill Clinton · Newt Gingrich · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Mandates Work Requirements After Two Years of Assistance
3 src Bill Clinton · Republican Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1995-07-13 | Detroit Newspaper Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement, Transforms Media Industry Labor Relations
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1994-09-13 | Federal Three Strikes Law Mandates Life Imprisonment for Third Violent Felony
3 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1994-01-01 | ALEC Passes Three Strikes Model Legislation Co-Sponsored by Private Prison Industry and NRA
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · National Rifle Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1992-04-06 | Caterpillar Defeats UAW Strike Using Permanent Replacement Threat, Pattern Bargaining Collapses
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1991-12-01 | Harvard's Sachs Becomes Yeltsin Economic Advisor After 'Grand Bargain' for Soviet Support Rejected by Bush Administration
4 src Boris Yeltsin · George H.W. Bush · Harvard University | | confirmed |
| 1990-01-01 | Union Avoidance Consulting Industry Emerges as $400+ Million Annual Business
3 src Corporate employers · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1989-09-25 | Christian Coalition Founded - Grassroots Religious Right Electoral Infrastructure
3 src Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1989-03-04 | Eastern Airlines Strike Leads to Corporate Liquidation, Frank Lorenzo's Union Destruction Model
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model
3 src KKR |
| confirmed |
| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1988-08-04 | WARN Act Passes with Corporate Loopholes, Toothless Plant Closing Protection
3 src U.S. Congress · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · AFL-CIO |
| confirmed |
| 1988-06-29 | Beck Decision Enables Workers to Withhold Union Dues for Political Activity, Weakening Labor Resources
3 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools
3 src John M. Olin Foundation · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Philanthropy Roundtable Founded - Conservative Donor Coordination Infrastructure
3 src Koch Network |
| confirmed |
| 1986-09-26 | Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1985-08-17 | Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking
3 src National Guard |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-31 | Idaho Legislature Overrides Veto to Impose Right-to-Work Law, Devastating Labor Movement
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | CNP Establishes Three-Times-Yearly Meeting Schedule at Secret Locations
2 src Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature
3 src Ronald Reagan · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1983-11-02 | Greyhound Strike Ends in Permanent Replacement Victory, PATCO Pattern Spreads to Private Sector
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1983-06-30 | Phelps Dodge Breaks Copper Strike Using Permanent Replacement Workers, Destroying Union
3 src United Steelworkers · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1981-08-03 | Reagan Fires PATCO Strikers: Union-Busting Era Begins
4 src Ronald Reagan · Federal Aviation Administration | | confirmed |
| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs
3 src General Electric |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Environmental Deregulation: Systematic Dismantling of Protections
3 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Department of Interior |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Era Wage Stagnation: Real Wages Decline as Inequality Accelerates
4 src Ronald Reagan · American workers · Labor unions · Corporate America |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Supply-Side Economics Failure: Empirical Evidence Debunks Trickle-Down Theory
4 src Ronald Reagan · Arthur Laffer · Congressional Budget Office |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | Wealth Inequality Explodes: Reagan Policies Accelerate Income Gap
4 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting
3 src National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses
3 src American workers · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-24 | Carter Signs Airline Deregulation Act, Neoliberal Turn Begins
5 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Stephen Breyer |
| confirmed |
| 1978-06-22 | Labor Law Reform Act Killed by Filibuster After Business Roundtable Lobbying Blitz
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · AFL-CIO · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-31 | J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook
3 src National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts
5 src Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures
3 src Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | CREEP Dirty Tricks Campaign Exposed: Segretti Orchestrates Political Sabotage Including Canuck Letter
7 src Edmund Muskie | | confirmed |
| 1972-03-03 | Lordstown Strike Against GM Speedups Exposes New Worker Alienation
3 src Ted Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1969-01-01 | Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable Founded by Roger Blough to Break Construction Unions
6 src U.S. Steel · General Motors · General Electric | | confirmed |