Strewth Sol! Fair crack of the whip

Sol Trujillo, pictured right, is the face of the ugly American in Australia. As the CEO of Telstra, Australia's major telecommunications company, Sol represents just about everything we detest about the corporate bully.

Telstra was once owned by the Australian people; then it was privatized with the proceeds from the gradual sell off going not to the people, but being snatched by the political establishment. That political establishment still holds around 17% of the corporation. More…