 | Communities Reject Coca-Cola in India by Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center July 10th, 2003 Coca-Cola is in trouble in India. Communities have been fighting the multinational for depleting the groundwater and contaminating what's left. A Special Series from the India Resource Center. |
 | Enron Style Corporate Crime and Privatization by Darren Puscas, Polaris Institute June 20th, 2003 An inside look at the U.S. Coalition of Service Industries (USCSI), the major driving force behind the scenes pushing for the privatization of services, including public services. |
 | The Stalemate in the WTO by Walden Bello and Aileen Kwa, Focus on the Global South June 11th, 2003 An in-depth analysis of the WTO's flaws, the roots of globalization and what they mean for the upcoming WTO Summit in Cancun. |
 | Bechtel: Profiting from Destruction by CorpWatch, Global Exchange, Public Citizen, Collaborative Report June 5th, 2003 In this collaborative report we look at Bechtel's history of operations in the water, nuclear, energy and public works sectors. |
 | Media Diversity at Risk by Mafruza Khan, Corporate Research Project May 29th, 2003 In June the FCC will vote on regulations that could dramatically change media ownership laws, endangering localism, diversity, and competition in US media. |
| Partial Chronology of Union Carbide's Bhopal Disaster by Helene Vosters, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2003 Dec. 2-3, 1984: Gas spill at the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal kills 8,000 in first three days. Over 120,000 injured. |
| An Unreasonable Woman by Helene Vosters, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2003 Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, is a long time environmental justice activist and adversary to corporate polluters like Union Carbide and Dow Chemical. In the early 1980's after witnessing dolphin die-offs, decreased fish catches, and increased health problems in her home-town of Seadrift, Texas, Wilson discovered that she lived in the most polluted county (Calhoun) in the U.S. |
 | Bhopal Survivors Confront Dow by Helene Vosters, Special to CorpWatch May 15th, 2003 Almost 19 years after the Bhopal gas disaster in India, survivors still seek Justice. Recently they confronted the CEO of Dow Chemical at a shareholders' meeting. |
| Bechtel's Water Wars by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch May 1st, 2003 In November 2001 Bechtel sued the country of Bolivia for $25 million for canceling a contract to run the water system of Cochabamba, the third largest city in the country, after local people took to the streets to protest massive price hikes for water. |
 | Bechtel's Nuclear Nightmares by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch May 1st, 2003 In part II of this special series, we look at the environmental and human rights impacts of just a few Bechtel ventures in nuclear, water and mining. |
 | Bechtel Wins Iraq War Contracts by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch April 24th, 2003 In this special investigative series we look at Bechtel's friends in high places, the revolving door between government and the corporate giant and some of its past boondoggles. |
 | From Business Executive to Peace Activist by Julie Light, CorpWatch April 17th, 2003 Warren Langley, former President of the Pacific Stock Exchange, talks with CorpWatch about his sojourn from the executive suites to activism in the streets. |
 | Dyncorp Rent-a-Cops May Head to Post-Saddam Iraq by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch April 9th, 2003 A major military contractor - already underfire for alleged human rights violations and fraud - may get a multi-million dollar contract to police post-Saddam Iraq. |
 | Busting the Water Cartel by Holly Wren Spaulding, Special to CorpWatch March 27th, 2003 A report from inside the World Water Forum on the showdown between water privatizers and human rights activists. |
| Vinnell, Brown and Root at Turkey's Incirlik Airbase by Pratap Chatterjee and Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch March 20th, 2003 Brown and Root's role at Incirlik began on October 1, 1988 when the company won its first contract to run support services at the base in collaboration with Vinnell corporation of Virginia. The contracts also included providing services at two more minor military sites in Turkey: Ankara and Izmir. |
 | Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch March 20th, 2003 CorpWatch has learned that VP Cheney's former company has a $multi-million contract servicing troops in Kuwait. This special series looks at how Halliburton profits from the Iraq war, now that bombs are falling on Baghdad. |
 | Indigenous Struggle in Ecuador Becomes a "Cause Beyond Control" by Kenny Bruno, EarthRights International March 13th, 2003 Ecuador's government recently ruled indigenous opposition to Amazon oil development a "cause beyond control." That leaves the companies free to pull out. It could also be an excuse to step up repression. |
 | Farmers Fight to Keep Monsanto's Genetically Modified Wheat Out of Canada by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch March 5th, 2003 A coaliton of farmers is fighting to keep Monsanto's "Roundup Ready Wheat" out of Canada. They say GM contamination would threaten exports. |
 | Jordan's Sweatshops: The Carrot or the Stick of US Policy? by Aaron Glantz, Special to CorpWatch February 26th, 2003 While the world braces for a US war against Iraq, Washington is using its newly inked Free Trade Agreement with Jordan to open sweatshops and secure an ally in the region. |
 | Sweat-Free School Purchasing Resolutions: A New Trend? by Ben Plimpton, Special to CorpWatch February 6th, 2003 School Districts and city governments are promising to purchase "sweat-free" uniforms and sports equipment. Organizers say the grassroots initiatives are a cutting edge in the fight against sweatshops. |
 | World Contrasts by Eduardo Galeano, www.portoalegre2003.org January 16th, 2003 Next week, thousands will descend on Porto Alegre, Brazil for the World Social Forum, under the slogan "Another World is Possible." We thought these reflections by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano on the world as it is today were a good place to start. |
 | West Coast Dockworkers: Victory in the Face of the Bush Doctrine by David Bacon, Special to Corpwatch January 2nd, 2003 West Coast Dockers negotiate a contract despite federal intervention on the side of business. But the Bush administration has fired a warning shot at labor. |
 | Tension in Paradise by Tom Price, Special to CorpWatch December 3rd, 2002 Tuvalu is like many places brushing up against development, simultaneously simple and complex. Island life hums along here, a small place where everyone knows everyone else, where children ask visitors names, and remember them days or weeks later. |
 | CLEAR CHANNEL: the Media Mammoth that Stole the Airwaves by Jeff Perlstein, Special to CorpWatch November 14th, 2002 Clear Channel leads the way in undermining media diversity in the US. Now, citizens are fighting back. |
 | Unity Platform on Corporate Accountability US Based Global Justice Groups October 29th, 2002 Some 200 US-Based social and environmental justice groups call for corporate accountability. Among their ten point demands: campaign finance reform and an end to corporate welfare. |
| Climate Justice Summit Program CorpWatch October 25th, 2002 Climate Justice Summit, October 26-28, 2002, Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Program |
| Clouds Over Global Warming by by C.E. Karunakaran, Tamilnadu Science Forum October 24th, 2002 "I'm not going to let the United States carry the burden for cleaning up the world's air," declared the US presidential candidate George W. Bush, in October 2000. "Only for poisoning it the most," he might have added, had he wanted to be completely truthful; as truthful as, say, Andrew Kerr of the World Wildlife Fund: "The United States is responsible for almost half of the increase in world carbon dioxide in the past decade. That increase is greater than the increase in China, India, Africa and the whole of Latin America." This minor fact would not, of course, deter President Bush from complaining that the Kyoto Protocol, the global compact on dealing with global warming "... exempts 80% of the world, including major population centres such as China and India," as he pulled his country out of the Kyoto process, within a few months of taking office. |
 | Nuclear Renaissance or Nuclear Nightmare? by Karl Grossman, Special to CorpWatch October 23rd, 2002 Thought the nuclear power industry was dead? Guess again. Industry leaders met to launch a "renaissance" with help from the White House. Check out this CorpWatch exclusive. |
 | Iraq and the Axis of Oil by Maria Elena Martinez and Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch October 23rd, 2002 In this CorpWatch Opinion, we look at the connection between the looming war in Iraq, corporate crime in America and control of the world's oil supply. |
 | International Tobacco Treaty: Public Health Advocates Face an Uphill Battle by Clive Bates, Special to CorpWatch October 15th, 2002 Can public interest groups salvage an international treaty aimed at regulating Big Tobacco? The director of an anti-tobacco group says they have their work cut out for them. |
 | Precision Farming: The Marriage Between Agribusiness and Spy Technology by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch October 2nd, 2002 Precision farming: high tech corporate responsibility or agribusiness expansion? We look at the use of satellites and new technology in farming. |
 | The Lacandon Jungle's Last Stand Against Corporate Globalization by Ryan Zinn, Special to CorpWatch September 26th, 2002 A battle is raging in Chiapas, Mexico to protect rainforest biodiversity and indigenous rights. Both are threatend by the Plan Puebla Panama. |
 | PPP: Plan Puebla Panama, or Private Plans for Profit? by Miguel Pickard, Special to CorpWatch September 19th, 2002 A primer on the development scheme that would turn southern Mexico and all of Central America into a giant export zone. |
 | September 11th Didn't Change Everything by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch September 10th, 2002 A New Yorker looks at the squandered opportunities to make desperately needed changes in the American psyche and global policy following last September 11th. |
| Women's Protests Against ChevronTexaco Spread Through the Niger Delta by Sam Olukoya, Special to CorpWatch August 7th, 2002 Women recently occupied ChevronTexaco facilities throughout the Niger Delta. Their initial demands have been met, but issues remain. |
 | Will Congress Investigate US Agencies' Enron Ties? by Jim Vallette, Special to CorpWatch August 1st, 2002 The Senate is investigating the role of private investment banks in the Enron scandal. Could public institutions, like the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank be next? |
 | Bush: Corporate Confidence Man by Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman, Special to CorpWatch July 10th, 2002 Bush's Corporate Responsibility plan is pretty anemic -- not what you'd expect from a president desperate to keep the current crisis from becoming a major political liability. |
 | George and Dick's Amazing Corporate Misadventures by Stephen Pizzo, Special to CorpWatch July 10th, 2002 Has the avalanche of corporate revelations left your head spinning? Investigative journalist Stephen Pizzo offers a cheat sheet to scandals plaguing the White House. |
 | A Tale of Two Coups: Venezuela and Argentina by Greg Palast, New Internationalist Magazine July 3rd, 2002 April's big business-led coup in Venezuela failed, where international finance's coup in Argentina in recent months has succeeded. Greg Palast gives us the inside track on two very different power-grabs. |
 | Afghan Pipe Dreams by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch June 28th, 2002 Is the US War on Terrorism in Afghanistan really a war for a natural gas pipeline? Fossil fuel corporations and the World Bank are expressing cautious interest. Activists are concerned. |
 | Edison's Failing Grade by Tali Woodward, Special to CorpWatch June 20th, 2002 For-profit school manager Edison Schools Inc. promoted itself as the savior of American public education. Now, the company is struggling for its own survival. |
 | Sempra: Exporting Pollution by J.P. Ross, Greenpeace, Special to CorpWatch May 27th, 2002 San Diego-based Sempra Energy is dodging US environmental laws by building power plants in Mexico -- and shipping the electricity back to California. |
 | Report Alleges US Role in Angola Arms-for-Oil Scandal by Wayne Madsen, Special to CorpWatch May 17th, 2002 Did US officials and oil companies play a role in international arms-for-oil scandal? |
 | Enron's Pipe Scheme by Jimmy Langman, Special to CorpWatch May 9th, 2002 Enron's Cuiaba gas pipeline project, built with US government support, is an ecological and social disaster. Jimmy Langman reports from Bolivia. |
 | The War on Terrorism's Gravy Train by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch May 2nd, 2002 The U.S. military has always relied on private contractors for basic services, but today nearly 10 percent of the emergency U.S. army operations overseas are contracted out to unaccountable private corporations. |
 | Enron's Empire by Daphne Wysham and Jim Vallette, Special to CorpWatch April 11th, 2002 U.S. taxpayers' money, $7 billion worth, laid the foundation for Enron's global operations. Wysham and Vallette expose the company's dirty deals that brought turmoil to communities the world over. |
 | Biotechnology's Third Generation by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch April 5th, 2002 From golden rice to anti-viral tomatoes, is the biotech industry's third generation good medicine or good marketing? And, activists ask, what are the environmental consequences? |
 | Genetic Pollution: Biotech Corn Invades Mexico by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Special to CorpWatch March 20th, 2002 Mexican farmers say their crops are contaminated by GM corn. At stake: their harvest, native seeds and very livelihood. |
 | Williams Companies: Enron II by Wayne Madsen, Special to CorpWatch February 14th, 2002 Top executives say Williams Companies faces huge losses due to deals with Enron. But a lawsuit says they were covering up the company's own Enron-like activities. |
 | Globalizing Hope by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 The only way to really describe the World Social Forum that just ended in Brazil is a global political ''carnaval.'' |
 | The Whole World Was Watching by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 The first week of February posed a test to the anti-corporate globalization movement and its targets. Local NY organizers got an A for attitude. The police passed. The WEF -- they flunked as usual. |
 | Trading in Disaster by Nityanand Jayaraman and Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch February 6th, 2002 30,000 tons of possibly contaminated steel scrap from the twin towers has been exported to India. The shipments raise serious public health concerns. |
 | World Economic Forum Protests Pose New Challenges for Anti-Globalization Movements by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch January 29th, 2002 Will demonstrators show that anti-corporate sentiment is alive and well? We look at the issues raised by the World Economic Forum in New York and the World Social Forum in Brazil. |
 | Greenwash + 10 by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch January 24th, 2002 This new report documents corporate influence on the United Nations and calls on the UN to take measures for accountability. |
 | Star Wars: Protecting Globalization From Above by Karl Grossman, Special to CorpWatch January 18th, 2002 Bush's revived Star Wars program got a boost after 9-11. He's asking for $8.3 billion for a missile program from Congress, and the big defense contractors are hoping to make a fortune. |
 | Homeland Security, Homeland Profits by Wayne Madsen, Special to CorpWatch December 21st, 2001 Government spy agencies seek new ways to monitor the Internet. Civil libertarians worry about privacy while software companies stand to make billions. |
 | Enron: Pulling the Plug on the Global Power Broker by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch December 13th, 2001 How could one of the most wealthy and powerful corporations in the world go bust overnight? It turns out that the 7th largest US business was mostly smoke and mirrors. |
 | Bhopal's Legacy by Sandhya Srinivasan, Special to CorpWatch December 6th, 2001 Seventeen years after the Bhopal disaster, survivors still seek justice and environmental health regulations go unenforced. |
 | Fast Track Passage Won't Defeat the ''Seattle Coalition'' by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies December 6th, 2001 Fast Track trade authority has squeaked through Congress. Analysts from the Institute for Policy Studies say it is one set back among many victories in a battle that is far from over. |
 | The Meaning of Doha by Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal, Focus on the Global South and Food First November 15th, 2001 Two activist-scholars set the record straight on what was gained and what was lost at the recent WTO summit in Qatar. |
 | ENGLAND: The WTO's Hidden Agenda by Gregory Palast, Special to CorpWatch November 9th, 2001 Confidential documents show top corporate executives met secretly with government officials to set the pro-business agenda for the current WTO talks. This may be the smoking gun that proves corporate collusion in the WTO process. |
 | Prelude to Doha: Northern Countries Try to Ram Through Agenda by Martin Khor, Special to CorpWatch November 9th, 2001 WTO officials and delegates from the US and EU try to strong arm developing countries into accepting a new round of trade negotiations. |
 | War Profiteering: Bayer, Anthrax and International Trade by Kavaljit Singh, Asia-Europe Dialogue Project November 5th, 2001 US officials have refused to bust Bayer's monopoly on anthrax drugs, even though generic drugs would save $millions. Bayer's patent was protected under the WTO. Now those rights are challenged. |
 | WTO and the Fate of the World's Forests by Victor Menotti, Special to CorpWatch November 1st, 2001 At stake in upcoming WTO negotiations is the question of who will control and benefit from the world's forests. |
 | The WTO, Forests and the Spirit of Rio by Ricardo Carrere, Special to CorpWatch November 1st, 2001 Rainforest activist Ricardo Carrere argues that it's time to reject free trade and return to the environmental principles that guided the 1992 Earth Summit. |
 | ENRON: Washington's Number One Behind-the-Scenes GATS Negotiator by Tony Clarke, Special to CorpWatch October 25th, 2001 Tony Clarke, looks at how Enron, the largest service provider in the world, uses its clout to shape WTO talks on cross-border trade in services. |
| Where Do We Go From Here? by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch October 11th, 2001 CorpWatch Director Joshua Karliner looks at the challenges facing the anti-corporate globalization movement since the WTC attack. |
| Brooklyn Diary by Kenny Bruno, CorpWatch September 19th, 2001 CorpWatch is based in San Francisco, but one of our 7 person staff, Kenny Bruno, actually lives and works in New York City. The following are some of his thoughts and impressions on the terrorist attack on his hometown and Washington DC -- attacks that all of us here at CorpWatch vehemently condemn. |
 | Immigration and Globalization: The UN Conference Against Racism Takes on Migrant Issues by Catherine Tactaquin, Special to CorpWatch August 30th, 2001 The World Conference on Racism in Durban spotlights many insidious forms of racism, including anti-immigrant activity. |
 | Environmental Justice from the Niger Delta to the World Conference Against Racism by Sam Olukoya, Special to CorpWatch August 30th, 2001 As the World Conference on Racism opens, EJ activists pledge to highlight environmental racism. Sam Olukoya looks at the connection between oil disasters in the Niger Delta and racism. |
| After Carlo Giuliani, Peaceful Protests Must Continue by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch July 25th, 2001 The highly publicized killing of Carlo Giuliani during the protests in Genoa on Friday, July 19th may mark a milestone for the anti-corporate globalization movement as significant as the Battle in Seattle. |
| G8: Are You Happy? by Susan George, Special to CorpWatch July 24th, 2001 The movement for a different kind of globalization is in danger. Either we expose what the police are actually up to and prevent the violence of the few, or we risk shattering the greatest political hope in the last several decades. |
| Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch June 21st, 2001 A prominent U.S. Senator and other government officials from both Washington and Bogotá stood on a Colombian mountainside above fields of lime-green coca -- the plant sacred to Andean Indians, but also the source of the troublesome drug cocaine. They were awaiting a demonstration of aerial herbicide spraying, part of the U.S. drug war in Colombia. |
| DynCorp in Colombia: Outsourcing the Drug War by Jeremy Bigwood, Special to CorpWatch May 23rd, 2001 A U.S.-made Huey II military helicopter manned by foreigners wearing U.S. Army fatigues crash lands after being pockmarked by sustained guerrilla fire from the jungle below. Its crew members, one of them wounded, are surrounded by enemy guerrillas. Another three helicopters, this time carrying American crews, cut through the hot muggy sky. |
| The Fight Against Big Tobacco: Domestic Battles, Global Implications by Robert Weissman, Special to CorpWatch April 26th, 2001 As a new round of negotiations on an international treaty controlling the spread of tobacco use opens in Geneva, it is still unclear what the Bush administration's position will be. What is clear, however, is that international tobacco control will almost certainly not be a priority for the Bush administration. |
| Quebec: One More Crack in the Wall by Sarah Anderson, Special to CorpWatch April 23rd, 2001 QUEBEC CITY -- ''Excuse me, but is this Canada?'' Scrawled on the ''Wall of Shame,'' a 10-foot high, 2 and a half mile long fence erected to keep protesters away from George Bush and 33 other leaders gathered at the Summit of the Americas, the slogan just about says it all. |
| Big Tobacco and Free Trade by Robert Weissman, Special to CorpWatch April 12th, 2001 An international conspiracy to poison millions of men, women and teenagers around the world is killing four million people a year. By 2030, it will take 10 million lives annually, 70 percent of them in developing countries. This ''conspiracy'' is run by Big Tobacco: companies like Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and R.J. Reynolds, to name just a few. |
| Bush Administration Tobacco Industry Ties by Robert Weissman, Special to CorpWatch April 1st, 2001 Policy making authority in the Bush administration on tobacco issues will rest largely with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department, the U.S. Trade Representative and, above all, the White House. Many key officials in these agencies have ties to the tobacco industry or have suggested sympathy for positions favored by the industry. |
| Greenwash Campaign Profile March 22nd, 2001 CorpWatch gives out bimonthly Greenwash awards to corporations that put more money, time and energy into slick PR campaigns aimed at promoting their eco-friendly images, than they do to actually protecting the environment. Nominations for these Awards come from our audience. |
| Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN Campaign Profile March 22nd, 2001 For the past two years CorpWatch has led an international coalition of organizations in exposing the flawed human rights and environmental records of companies forming partnerships with the UN. CorpWatch is the Secretariat of this coalition, now known as the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN. |
| Climate Justice Initiative Campaign Profile March 22nd, 2001 Last year CorpWatch launched an initiative to redefine the global warming issue as a question of local and global justice. In November 2000, CorpWatch organized the First Climate Justice Summit in The Hague bringing representatives from communities already adversely impacted by the fossil-fuel industry from the US and Southern countries together to join the climate change debate. |
 | Zapatistas: Bad For Business by Martin Espinoza, Special to CorpWatch March 22nd, 2001 Are the Zapatistas winning the war of ideas against neoliberalism and free trade? |
| Peddling the E-Ticket to the Development Train by Sarah Anderson, Special to CorpWatch March 8th, 2001 As both the Democratic and Republican parties jockey to win the favor of the high-tech industry, U.S. trade officials under Clinton and now under the Bush Administration have been aggressively promoting high tech's global interests by breaking down barriers to electronic commerce. |
 | This Is What Democracy Looks Like by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch January 28th, 2001 Thousands gather in Porto Alegre, Brazil to look towards a future in which corporations no longer rule. |
| Silence = Death: AIDS, Africa and Pharmaceuticals by Stephen Lewis, Toronto Globe and Mail January 26th, 2001 While 25 million Africans are living with AIDS, Northern pharmaceutical companies and governments are turning their back on the greatest tragedy of our time according to former deputy head of UNICEF. |
| Is Bush Bad News for the World Bank? by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South January 18th, 2001 Scholar Walden Bello says a Bush presidency is bad news for the Bank and the Fund. |
| The Promise of Porto Alegre by Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde Diplomatique The new century is starting in Porto Alegre. All kinds of people, each in their own ways, have been contesting and critiquing neo-liberal globalisation, and many of them will be gathering in this southern Brazilian city on 25-30 January for the first World Social Forum. This time they won't just be protesting -- as they were in Seattle, Washington, Prague and elsewhere -- against the world-wide injustices, inequalities and disasters created by the excesses of capitalism (see the article by Bernard Cassen). |
| Halliburton's Destructive Engagement by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch October 11th, 2000 Since Dick Cheney became a candidate for Vice President, many journalists have focused on his mixed financial record as CEO of Halliburton, and his enormous retirement package. Few have investigated Dick Cheney's role in influencing foreign policy for the benefit of the company. |
| Prague Police Brutalize Activist Prisoner by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch September 29th, 2000 PRAGUE -- Yehoshua Tzarfati has a chilling story to tell. He came to Prague to help as a medic during this week's World Bank/IMF demonstrations. |
| Protestors Parade Through Prague by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch September 26th, 2000 PRAGUE -- In a day of protests that were more colorful than violent, 9,000 demonstrators surrounded Prague's Congress Center where the World Bank and IMF are holding their annual meeting. |
| Al's Pals: A List of Gore's Top Donors by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch September 8th, 2000 Gore's top donors for the 2000 presidential campaign (donation in parenthesis). |
| Al Gore: Friend of Corporate America by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch September 8th, 2000 Al Gore has raised more money than any other Democratic presidential candidate in history. But his pandering to rich and powerful comes at a cost to the public. |
| From Melbourne to Prague: the Struggle for a Deglobalized World by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South September 6th, 2000 Walden Bello delivered this speech at a series of engagements on the occasion of demonstrations against the World Economic Forum (Davos) in Melbourne, Australia, 6-10 September 2000. |
| The Struggle for a Deglobalized World by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South September 6th, 2000 In the mid-nineties, the WTO had been sold to the global public as the lynchpin of a multilateral system of economic governance that would provide the necessary rules to facilitate the growth of global trade and the spread of its beneficial effects. |
| Integrity in the Balance: Al Gore's Record On the Environment by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch August 29th, 2000 Terri Swearingen has heard enough of Al Gore's promises on the environment. ''There may be some that believe he is a premier environmentalist, but not me,'' says the forty-three year old registered nurse and mother. |
| Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch August 29th, 2000 For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. |
| Beyond the DNC by Ruth Conniff, Special to CorpWatch August 18th, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- It's all over but the spinning. Outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the LAPD took snap shots if each other in the protest area where earlier in the week they clubbed and tear gassed demonstrators, as well as a few convention-goers and members of the media. |
| DNC: Corporate Crusaders by Ruth Conniff, Special to CorpWatch August 17th, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- On Wednesday night, at the House of Blues on Sunset strip, the Edison Electric Institute, the Nuclear Energy Institute, the American Gas Association, and the National Mining Association put on a Motown bash honoring Representative John Dingell (Democrat of Michigan) under the banner ''The Motor City Takes L.A. for a Spin.'' |
| DNC: Corporate Sponsors and Rubber Bullets by Ruth Conniff, Special to CorpWatch August 15th, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- Towering over the fenced protest area outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles is a giant mural with the faces of Cesar Chavez, Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. |
| It Feels Like One Big Business Party by Randy Hayes, Los Angeles Times August 11th, 2000 Monday is the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, where thousands of environmental, human rights, labor and campaign finance reform advocates will gather both in the streets and at the Shadow Convention hosted by Arianna Huffington. We of Rainforest are not gathering to show our support for the Democratic Party. |
| Cheney's Oil Investments and the Future of Mexico's Democracy by Martin Espinoza, Special to CorpWatch August 8th, 2000 MEXICO CITY -- The GOP's vice-presidential hopeful Dick Cheney once claimed that it was a damned shame the ''good lord'' didn't put the earth's most abundant oil reserves in democratic countries. |
| RNC: ''Don't Worry, Be Happy'' by Ruth Conniff, Special to CorpWatch August 1st, 2000 PHILADELPHIA -- Among the myriad corporate sponsors of the Republican Convention this year is Dale Carnegie and Associates, Inc., the self-described ''global leader in business training.'' |
| Enron in India: The Dabhol Disaster by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch July 20th, 2000 Just before dawn on June 3, 1997, police officers forcibly entered the homes of several women in Veldur, a fishing village in western India, dragging them into waiting police vans and beating them with sticks. |
| George W. Bush Gets Layed by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch July 20th, 2000 This investigative report the uncovers close ties between the GOP candidate and Enron Corportations CEO. |
| Seeds of Resistance: Grassroots Activism vs. Biotech Agriculture by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch May 25th, 2000 SAN RAMON, CA -- About a dozen demonstrators dressed in mock biohazard suits dump food products from Safeway supermarket shelves into a plastic bin in front of the Marriott Hotel in this quiet suburban town East of San Francisco. |
| US: Against China PNTR by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on the Corporation May 22nd, 2000 The debate over whether the U.S. Congress should grant Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR, formerly known as permanent most favored nation) status is about many things, but none more important than this basic question. |
| US: Don't Bash China by Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal, Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First May 1st, 2000 The anti-China trade campaign amounts to a Faustian bargain that seeks to buy some space for US organized labor at the expense of real solidarity with workers and progressive worker and environmental movements globally against transnational capital. |
| Activists from the Developing World See D.C. Events as a Watershed in Global Solidarity by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch April 17th, 2000 If you ask a Mexican farmer, Indian civil servant, Filipina garment worker, Bolivian miner or South African student what structural adjustment is, chances are they would be able to explain IMF and World Bank mandated belt tightening because their lives have been touched by it. |
| Beyond Street Tactics by Kenny Bruno, Special to CorpWatch April 17th, 2000 The final day of the World Bank/IMF protests ranged from stand offs between protestors and police, an obsession with violence on the part of the media, and excitement and hopefulness from organizers and activists. |
| The World Bank Takes More Than it Gives by Julie Light, CorpWatch April 14th, 2000 Dr. Vineeta Gupta is a physician and human rights activist based in Punjab, India. She has focused her efforts on World Bank efforts to privatize healthcare in Punjab. According to Dr. Gupta, the result of World Bank policies has not been greater access to healthcare. |
| WTO: Watershed for Alternative Media by Julie Light, Media Alliance April 1st, 2000 There are watershed moments in which world events and popular perceptions of them are changed. The week of protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last year was indisputably such a moment. |
| Stolen Harvest CorpWatch March 17th, 2000 Stolen Harvest is the story of how those who labor, those who grow foods, nature and her amazing creatures, are all literally being stolen by tremendously clever mechanisms being put in place by global corporations trying to find new markets. |
| Where was the Color in Seattle? by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, Colorlines February 1st, 2000 In the vast acreage of published analysis about the splendid victory over the World Trade Organization last November 29-December 3, it is almost impossible to find anyone wondering why the 40-50,000 demonstrators were overwhelmingly Anglo. |
| The Historic Significance of Seattle by Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology December 10th, 1999 The failure of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Seattle was a historic watershed, in more than one way. Firstly, it has demonstrated that globalisation is not an inevitable phenomena which must be accepted at all costs but a political project which can be responded to politically. |
| US: The Revolt of Developing Nations by Martin Khor, Third World Network December 6th, 1999 It was an amazing week. In Seattle, the contradictions of globalization revved to a climactic conclusion. At the end, the WTO Ministerial Conference that was supposed to launch a new Round collapsed, suddenly, in almost total chaos, like a house of cards. |
 | Greenhouse Gangsters vs. Climate Justice by Kenny Bruno, Joshua Karliner & China Brotsky, CorpWatch November 1st, 1999 This report documents how the companies not only contribute to global warming but also use their enormous power to DENY the problem, DELAY solutions, DIVIDE their opposition, DUMP their problems in the developing world, and DUPE the public into believing the problem is solved. |
| The Prison Industry: Capitalist Punishment by Julie Light, CorpWatch October 28th, 1999 The CMT Blues scandal and the host of human rights and labor issues it raises, is just the tip of the iceberg in a web of interconnected business, government and class interests which critics dub the ''prison industrial complex.'' |
| Mumia Abu-Jamal's Statement in Response to Supreme Court's Denial for New Trial by Mumia Abu-Jamal, CorpWatch October 4th, 1999 Mumia Abu-Jamal responds to Supreme Court decision not to hear his appeal. |
| The Prison Industrial Complex: Crisis and Control by Christian Parenti, Special to CorpWatch September 1st, 1999 The author of Lockdown America paints a chilling picture of social and economic crisis, corporate interest and the need to lock up ''disposable'' populations. Parenti also looks at the major corporate players in the prison industrial complex. |
| Privatizing Pain by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Special to CorpWatch August 26th, 1999 In this original column for CorpWatch, death-row journalist Jamal describes some of the dramatic abuses that occur when the profit motive and punishment collide. |
| Prison Privatization: The Bottom Line by Alex Friedmann, Special to CorpWatch August 21st, 1999 This CCA prisoner describes his stint in a private lockup where the company's stock quotes were posted on the wall. His reporting on company policies landed him in hot water and then back in a state prison. |
| La Linea: Gender, Labor and Environmental Justice on the US-Mexico Border by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch June 30th, 1999 TECATE, Mexico -- Tecate's coat of arms dubs this Mexican town ''Baja California's Industrial Paradise.'' About 30 miles from Tijuana, the city is home to the Tecate brewery and also houses an industrial park filled with assembly plants, or maquiladoras. This ''industrial paradise'' is one of several Mexican border boomtowns that is part of a global production system. |
| Engendering Change by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch June 26th, 1999 For women working in Mexican assembly plants, known as maquiladoras, insisting on their legal rights takes what are colloquially referred to as cojones. It indicates that Mexico's low wage feminine labor force may not be as docile as foreign employers would like to believe. It also is a harbinger of an incipient movement inside Mexico's expanding export-processing sector. |
| Tijuana Police Defy Court Protection of Maquiladora Strike by David Bacon, Special to CorpWatch May 16th, 1999 TIJUANA -- For two weeks, Tijuana has teetered on the brink of official lawlessness, as city and state police continue to defy Baja California's legal system. Raul Ramirez, member of the Baja California Academy of Human Rights, warned last week that ''the state is in danger of violating the Constitution and the Federal Labor Law... as it succumbs to the temptation to use force.'' |
| MEXICO: Standing up for Health Rights on the Job Special to CorpWatch May 1st, 1999 First hand accounts of two workers who sued a San Diego-based medical manufacturer after a workplace accident. |
| MEXICO: University Professors Photos Draw the Wrath of Border Industrialists by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch April 29th, 1999 It wasn't just the politically provocative photographs that got Fred Lonidier's exhibit at Tijuana's public university taken down. It was the fact that he had the audacity to leaflet maquiladora workers outside the factory gates and invite them to the gallery that got his show yanked. |
| A Perilous Partnership by Joshua Karliner, John Cavanagh, Phyllis Bennis and Ward Morehouse, CorpWatch, IPS and CIPA March 16th, 1999 In a sharp detour from its mission of serving the world's poor, a key UN agency, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has solicited funds from global corporations with tarnished records on human rights, labor and the environment. A Perilous Partnership takes a hard look at this new initiative to build corporate partnerships in the United Nations. |
| MEXICO: Miners' Strike Broken in Revolutionary Cananea by David Bacon, Special to CorpWatch March 12th, 1999 In the mile-high mountains of the Sonora desert, just 25 miles south of the border between Arizona and Mexico, over two thousand miners have been locked in a bitter industrial war since mid-November. Here Grupo Mexico operates North America's oldest, and one of the world's largest copper mines -- Cananea -- in a town which has been a symbol of anti-government insurrection for almost 100 years. |
| Smoke and Mirrors by Michael Belliveau, CorpWatch October 1st, 1998 Almost a year after governments agreed to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a growing number of environmentalists are sounding the alarm on the Treaty's call for a system of global emissions trading. |
| Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis, ColorLines September 1st, 1998 Long time scholar and activist Davis explains that locking up vast numbers of poor people of color "has literally become big business." She examines how corporate interest and institutional racism intersect. |
| Corporate-Sponsored Public Schools Applied Research Center July 8th, 1998 Here is a fact sheet on the education industry prepared by the Applied Research Center (ARC). It is an excellent resource listing a ''who's who'' of the for-profit education world. |
| Race and Classroom: The Corporate Connection CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 Activist and researcher Libero Della Piana talks about the history of institutional racism in U.S. schools and how it leaves children of color vulnerable to corporate intervention in the classroom. |
| Giving Kids the Business CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 CorpWatch discusses industry's efforts to cash in on public schools with Professor Molnar, Author of Giving Kids the Business and director of the Center for the Analysis of Commercialism in Education. |
| A Local Battle Highlights the National Debate Over EMOs by Julie Light, Special to CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 CorpWatch editor Julie Light reports on a pitched battle for the future of a San Francisco school. The players? The Edison Corporation, the local school board, parents, teachers and students. |
| The Education Industry: The Corporate Takeover of Public Schools by Julie Light, CorpWatch July 8th, 1998 Education in the U.S. has become big business. The ''education industry,'' a term coined by EduVentures, an investment banking firm, is estimated to be worth between $630 and $680 billion in the United States. The stock value of 30 publicly traded educational companies is growing twice as fast as the Dow Jones Average. |
| Microsoft and Internet Development CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 What do computer programmers think about Microsoft's role in the development of the Internet, and the social implications of the underlying technical issues? We asked Harry Hochheiser, an Internet software developer and board member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for his perspective. |
| Defying a Microsoft World View CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 Audrie Krause is the founder and executive director of NetAction. When this interview took place in January 1998, Microsoft had recently agreed under threat of a contempt of court citation in the US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit, to allow personal computer manufacturers who install Windows to remove the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop. |
| Noam Chomsky on Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet CorpWatch May 6th, 1998 CorpWatch's Anna Couey and Joshua Karliner caught up with Noam Chomsky by telephone at his home in the Boston area to ask him about Microsoft and Bill Gates. The following is a transcript of our far ranging conversation. |
| US: Oregon's Prison Slaveocracy by Dan Pens, Prison Legal News May 1st, 1998 When "get tough" voter measures requiring inmates to work for free, undermined the Oregon State Constitution, lawmakers simply amended it. Prison Legal News co-editor and inmate Pens looks at the impacts on prisoner and labor rights. |
| Philippine Greens Protest the Visit of Bill Gates by Roberto Verzola, The Philippine Greens March 20th, 1998 A denunciation of Microsoft for pressuring the Philippine government to establish special laws and law enforcement forces to protect the corporation's software at the expense of educating Philippine students. |
| Guarding the Multinationals by Pratap Chatterjee, Multinational Monitor March 1st, 1998 Alan Golacinski was White House Security Adviser, a position he rose to after 20 years in the State Department, while Michael Golovatov spent an equal number of years working for the KGB's crack commando team, known at the time as Alpha.Now both Golacinski and Golovatov report to the same bosses-Richard Bethell and Sir Alistair Morrison-two ex-Special Air Service (SAS) commandos in London. They run a profitable private company named Defense Systems Limited (DSL) in London in offices next to Buckingham Palace, working for Petrochemical companies, mining or mineral extraction companies and their subsidiaries, multinationals, banks, embassies, non-governmental organizations, national and international organizations. |
| Some Trends in the Education Industry Applied Research Center December 1st, 1997 Here is a comparative chart listing some trends in the education industry prepared by the Applied Research Center. |
| MITSUBISHI: The Most Environmentally Destructive Corporate Force on Earth by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch December 1st, 1997 The best known, most prestigious, and largest keiretsu, is the Mitsubishi Group of companies. Given the size and reach of its diverse activities, and due to the fact that it is more heavily focused in polluting industrial sectors than other keiretsu, the Mitsubishi Group may well be the single most environmentally destructive corporate force on Earth. |
| VIETNAM: Smoke From a Hired Gun by Dara O'Rourke, Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC) November 10th, 1997 TRAC is pleased to be able to shed some light on this subject by releasing the first audit of this kind ever to be made public: a confidential Ernst and Young assessment of the Tae Kwang Vina plant, a factory which employs 9,200 workers who produce 400,000 pairs of shoes a month exclusively for Nike in Vietnam. |
| Towards a Democratic Media System CorpWatch October 1st, 1997 Robert W. McChesney is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin, Madison talks about corporate control of the Internet in this CorpWatch interview. |
| CorpWatch Interviews Lora Jo Foo CorpWatch September 22nd, 1997 Here is an interview with Laura Jo Foo of the Asian Law Caucus and President of Sweatshop Watch on the issue of a Living Wage. |
| Clinton's New ''No Sweatshop'' Agreement by Tim Connor, Community Aid Abroad September 22nd, 1997 In April this year, with much fanfare, US President Bill Clinton announced the introduction of a new ''No Sweatshop'' Code of Conduct for US Apparel and Footwear companies. The code is voluntary, but high profile companies like Nike Inc., Reebok International Ltd. and Liz Claiborne Inc. were among the ten initial signatories. These companies agreed that a set of minimum standards for working conditions in factories would be adhered to in the production of their goods -- wherever that production occurs. |
| Global Tobacco Control Policy Framework San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition June 30th, 1997 As 33% of San Franciscans are immigrants, the Coalition believes that it must think globally and act locally in the development of a Global Tobacco Control Policy Framework. |
| Dr. Stan Glantz on The Tobacco Settlement CorpWatch June 30th, 1997 To get some perspective on the deal negotiated with the tobacco industry CorpWatch spoke with Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. Glantz, a long-time tobacco crusader, is the author of the Cigarette Papers, the published version of internal documents leaked to him from the Brown and Williamson tobacco corporation. |
| Tobacco's Global Ghettos: Big Tobacco Targets The World's Poor by Carol McGruder, San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project June 30th, 1997 With daily reportage and media coverage chronicling the first chinks in the once seemingly impenetrable armor of Big Tobacco, the general public might get the very erroneous impression that Big Tobacco is going down for the count. Nothing could be further from the truth. To the average person the $300-$400 billion dollar ''global'' settlement that is currently being bandied about seems like an awful lot of money. To those of us in the tobacco control business, we know it is but a drop in the ocean to Big Tobacco, and a small price to pay to ensure that they will be able to continue business as usual in the rest of the world. The Tobacco Industry won't even flinch as they write the check. |
| Tobacco Industry Fact Sheet INFACT June 30th, 1997 The following tobacco industry facts were excerpted with permission from INFACT's web site. INFACT is a national grassroots corporate watchdog organization founded in 1977. |
| No Butts About It, Tobacco Kills CorpWatch, San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition, and San Francisco Tobacco Free Project June 30th, 1997 The following is excerpted from the World Health Organization's Tobacco Use: A Public Health Disaster. |
| Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization by Dr. Judith M. Mackay, San Francisco's Forum On Global Tobacco Control Policies May 19th, 1997 Excerpted from the San Francisco's Forum On Global Tobacco Control Policies. Dr. Judith Mackay looks at the ''New Opium War.'' |
| Tom Beanal's Speech at Loyola University in New Orleans Project Underground May 19th, 1997 On May 23, 1996, Mr. Tom Beanal, leader of the Amungme Tribal Council and principal in a $6 billion suit against Freeport-McMoRan, spoke at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. |
| Freeport McMoRan's Corporate Profile Project Underground May 19th, 1997 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, headquartered in New Orleans, is one of the world's largest and lowest cost copper and gold producers, from its Grasberg mine in Irian Jaya. In 1996 it was regarded as one of the ten worst corporations by the Multinational Monitor magazine. |
| Global Gold Rush by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch May 19th, 1997 Gold is an intoxicating substance. Witness the rapidity with which investors threw their money into a relatively obscure Canadian mining corporation called Bre-X, when that company claimed to have discovered the largest single deposit of the metal in history. |
| Pete Wilson (Honorary Baron) Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Wilson's support for methyl bromide has certainly helped make him a powerful economic force in the political arena. |
| Trical Inc. Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 A largely mysterious entity, TriCal is owned and operated by its President, Dean Storkan. Together with some of his top lieutenants, Roger Hruby, Hank Maze and Tom Duafala, Storkan operates a series of thirteen related corporations in which he has significant, if not controlling financial interests. |
| Assorted and Sundry Barons Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Various other corporations and industry associations participate in the transnational effort to perpetuate the use of the Class I Toxin and Class I ozone depleter, methyl bromide. |
| Sun-Diamond Growers of California Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 The most blatent case of the Bromide Barons attempting to underine the democratic process with their financial influence is that of Sun-Diamond Growers of California. A large agricultural concern that uses methyl bromide to grow young fruit trees and to fumigate stored fruit and nuts. |
| Methyl Bromide Working Group Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Led by the Methyl Bromide Working Group (MBWG) and its chief lobbyist Peter G. Sparber, the Barons of Bromide are working on a number of fronts to undermine the U.S. Clean Air Act and thus to perpetuate the use of methyl bromide indefinitely. |
| Methyl Bromide Global Coalition Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 The Methyl Bromide Global Coalition (MBGC) has exerted significant influence on all aspects of the methyl bromide debate, inserting itself as a central player in international scientific panels, diplomatic negotiations and public pronouncements on the issue. |
| Dead Sea Bromine Group Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Dead Sea Bromine produces as much as 30 percent of world output of methyl bromide, which it exports to Europe, Africa, the United States and China. However, very little information is available on this Israeli transnational corporation. |
| The Bromide Barons Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 A handful of corporations control the methyl bromide industry. Enter the realm of the Bromide Barons. |
| Albemarle Corporation Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Today the Albemarle Corporation is one of the top three producers of methyl bromide in the world. Founded in 1887 to produce blotting papers for fountain pens, Albemarle stayed a paper products company for many years. |
| First Hand Experience by Alba Morales, Political Ecology Group March 31st, 1997 Photos and words from farm workers and communities neighboring methyl bromide injected fields. |
| Push Back the Poison: Ban Methyl Bromide by Joshua Karliner, CorpWatch March 31st, 1997 Methyl bromide is a silent killer. Colorless and odorless, it is highly toxic to a wide spectrum of organisms, including human beings. It would be fast on its way out today if it weren't for a small handful of corporations, industry associations and elected officials which have worked stealthily and assiduously to keep this deadly product on the market and in the field. |
| Farm Workers on the Front Lines CorpWatch March 31st, 1997 CorpWatch talks with Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers about their long history of working to ban dangerous pesticides. |
| Profiting from Punishment by Paul Wright, Prison Labor News March 1st, 1997 The co-editor of Prison Legal News, a Washington State prisoner himself, Wright reports on private companies, like Boeing, that are making out like bandits by using prison labor. |
| Organizing the High Tech Industry CorpWatch February 10th, 1997 CorpWatch interviews John Barton, Organizing Coordinator, Building Service Division, of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and links up with other groups organizing for worker health and safety. |
| International Activist Profile: Ryoichi Terada Campaign for Responsible Technology February 10th, 1997 Ryoichi Terada, Professor of the Environment, Tsuru University, Tokyo confronts the high tech industry's ground water contamination in Japan. |
| The Globalization of High Tech by Carlos Plazola, Campaign for Responsible Technology February 10th, 1997 High-tech electronics industry representatives in the Silicon Valley are finally admitting that their facilities pose significant risks to surrounding communities (of course, they admitted this for liability and permit renewal purposes). A recent article in the San Jose Mercury News (6/18/96) described the struggle between LSI Logic and a neighboring Muslim school. |
| The Environmental Cost of Computers Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition February 10th, 1997 Here is our "clickable computer." Click on any of these four computer parts to find out their environmental impact. |
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