April 04, 2008 Commentary on the 40th Anniversary of the Tragic Slaying of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – What Have We Learned? What Would He Be Thinking? The Year 1968 in perspective…
Many of the dramatic events of the year 1968 are still clear in my mind this morning. Living in that time, being a young journalist and then corporate manager active in many of the events that took place, and then looking back...
March 28, 2008 Commentary on Accountability of the Sovereign – and How the 2008 Olympics May Be the World Stage for Demands for Greater Accountability by the Chinese Nation
It’s taken years to get here, but in just a few months, the Summer Olympic Games 2008 will open in China. This “XXIS Olympiad” will be a pageant of nations with a stirring opening ceremony – and the spirit of the games...
March 11, 2008 Commentary on Accountability – and Broken Trust - New York Governor Eliot Spitzer – The Wall Street Sheriff, Now Being Chased by a Posse of Journalists as He Violates the Trust of Family, Friends, Voters…
A very sad story continues to unfold: The Hon. Eliot Spitzer, once the Sheriff of Wall Street (as attorney general he pursued “the bad guys” in finance on our behalf) falls from grace and into a state of serious disgrace as the...
February 22, 2008 Commentary – on Corporate Accountability – and Government Accountability – and Food Safety – and Broken Trust
Another troubling story about a company with a clear lack of accountability and sense of corporate responsibility, and a situation with minimal government oversight, this time from the food business. A whopping 143 million...
February 20, 2008 Commentary on the US Toy Industry, Corporate Social Responsibility and Product Stewardship
Good news for toy buyers this week – especially if the individual companies follow through with their new consumer market promises and clearly demonstrate greater corporate social responsibility in their design, manufacturing and...
February 19, 2008 Commentary on David Walker stepping down this week as head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
This is a sad day for the US government, and sadder still for all of us as taxpayers. Taxpayers who have paid for greed, screwups, and general indeptitude by parties who have access to our tax dollars.
January 20, 2008 Comment 3 – On Brocade CEO Greg Reyes – Jail And Fine Meted Out By Federal Judge – What Next in Backdating Options Investigations?
We’ve commented here (see prior posts #1 and #2) on the plight of the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, Gregory Reyes, and his journey through the federal justice system. He’s now the first CEO convicted by a jury of...
January 16, 2008 Commentary on China Revoking Export Licenses of 600+ Toy Makers
The other shoes are dropping in China…boom, boom, boom…the government of China in the form of the State Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (whew!) or AQSIQ has yanked the licenses of 600+ Chinese...
December 27, 2007 Comment 2 on - Brocade CEO Greg Reyes - Backdating Options
December 27, 2007 Update on Commentary (see below, December 10 post by this writer. Just before Christmas, CEO Gregory Reyes received his gift for the season -- the federal cour postponed his sentencing ("indefinitely, says the...
December 27, 2007 The Editor's Commentary on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -- April 16, 1963...
We include this document in Accountability Central because of the importance of Dr. King's comments to his fellow clergy leaders in the south...and everywhere in the USA. His words ring true and call out to our conscience 44...