by Russell Mokhiber

About the author: Russell Mokhiber is editor of Corporate Crime Reporter,an anticorporate legal weekly based in Washington, D.C. He is also the author of Corporate Crime and Violence.

As we move to the end of the millennium, it is important to remind ourselves that this has been the century of the corporation, where for-profit, largely unaccountable organizations with unlimited life, size and power, took control of the economy and the political economy—largely to the detriment of the individual consumer, worker, neighbor and citizen.

Unspeakable Corporate Damage

Let us again remind ourselves that corporations were created by the citizenry. (Thanks here to Richard Grossman and the Project on Corporations Law and Democracy for resurrecting and teaching us a history we would have collectively forgotten.)

In the beginning, we the citizenry created the corporation to...