| India: Enron's Debacle at Dabhol by Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service February 8th, 2002 Enron's collapse may have begun with the kind of misadventures it engaged in half a world away among the quiet coastal villages of Dabhol, India. |
| USA: Halliburton -- To the Victors Go the Markets by Jordan Green, Facing South February 1st, 2002 The influence of big energy corporations in the Bush Administration is no secret. But the story of Dick Cheney and his former company, Halliburton Co., has received little attention -- and it may be the most important. |
| USA: Enron Chair Gave List of Favored Names to White House by Marcy Gordon, Associated Press February 1st, 2002 A few months after the White House got a list of recommended candidates from former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay, a friend and backer of President Bush, two of them were appointed to a federal energy commission. |
| USA: Enron Got Its Money's Worth by Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times January 24th, 2002 The administration's energy program, developed by Vice President Dick Cheney in secret meetings -- six of them with Enron officials -- could have been written by lobbyists for the now failed company. |
| USA: Fired Andersen Partner Refuses to Testify on Enron by Kevin Drawbaugh and Susan Cornwell, Reuters January 24th, 2002 A fired partner of auditor Andersen refused to testify to Congress on the destruction of evidence in the collapse of energy giant Enron, prompting lawmakers to say he was frustrating their probe. |
| USA: Enron's New $5 Billion Black Hole by Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK) January 20th, 2002 Investigators probing the accounts of collapsed energy giant Enron are examining what happened to more than $5 billion in loans and investments the company made to subsidiaries kept off its balance sheet. The scale of the black hole opening up looks as if it could dwarf previous estimates. |
| USA: VP Tried to Aid Enron in India by Timothy J. Burger, New York Daily News January 18th, 2002 Vice President Cheney tried to help Enron collect a $64 million debt from a giant energy project in India, government documents obtained by the Daily News show. |
| USA: Bush Faces Flak Over Links to Defense Contractor by Jason Niss, The Independent (UK) January 13th, 2002 President George W Bush's administration, already on the back foot over its connections with the collapsed energy giant Enron, faces questions over a massive defence contract which aided an investment firm with Bush family links. |
| USA: Auditor Says Enron Documents Gone by Marcy Gordon, Associated Press January 10th, 2002 WASHINGTON -- The firm that audited the books of collapsed Enron Corp., Arthur Andersen LLP, disclosed Thursday that a ''significant but undetermined'' number of documents related to the company had been destroyed. |
| USA: Don't Cry for Enron, Argentina by Paul Krugman, San Francisco Chronicle December 12th, 2001 Not long ago Argentina, like Enron, was a darling of the financial community. And like Enron, Argentina was held up as a role model, to a large extent by the same people -- Argentina's monetary system, in particular, was lauded in the pages of Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, and feted at libertarian think tanks. |
| US: Enron's Legacy by David Morris, AlterNet December 3rd, 2001 Kenneth Lay is living proof that one person can change the world. His company, Enron, may be in shambles. In three months, it may no longer exist. But for the rest of our lives we will live in a world redesigned by Kenneth Lay. |
| USA: Enron on Brink of Bankruptcy by Kristen Hays, Associated Press November 29th, 2001 HOUSTON -- The slick financing that helped turn Enron Corp. into a mighty power-brokering dynamo became its Achilles' heel, leaving the energy trader teetering toward bankruptcy after a smaller rival abandoned plans to buy it. |
| USA: Enron, Dynegy Confirm Possible Merger Talks by Jeff Franks, Reuters November 8th, 2001 HOUSTON -- Enron Corp., plagued by investor doubts and under the gun to shore up its crumbling finances, said on Thursday it was talking with power trading rival Dynegy Inc. about a possible merger. |
| KENYA: Japan Suspends Funding for Sondu Miriu Dam by Jennifer Wanjiru, Environment News Service June 4th, 2001 Citing "environmental disruption and corruption" in a letter to the government of Kenya, Japan's Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka indicated that suspension of funding for the Sondu Miriu hydropower dam project was ''a response to criticism from environmental campaigners and differences between Kenya and Japan over further funding.'' |
| US: Making World Trade Fair by Doreen Hemlock, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 6th, 2001 They're often portrayed as obstructionists to trade and the global economy. But the social movement that mobilized thousands in Quebec last month -- and earlier in Seattle and Prague -- is maturing beyond street protests. |
| USA: 500 Protest Enron Plant by David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel March 27th, 2001 More than 500 people packed the Pompano Beach Civic Center on Monday night in a formidable display of opposition to Enron Corp.'s plans for a power plant next to Florida's Turnpike. |
| USA: Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals with Hussein by Martin A. Lee, San Francisco Bay Guardian November 13th, 2000 During former defense secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton, Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package last July when he became the GOP's vice-presidential candidate |
| JAPAN: Police Raid Mitsubishi Motors Business Recorder August 28th, 2000 Japanese police investigators raided the offices of Mitsubishi Motors Corp on Sunday on suspicion of concealing customer complaints and recalls from government inspectors for decades, Kyodo news agency reported. |
| AFRICA: Illegal Diamond Trade Funds War in Sierra Leone UMCOR April 19th, 2000 Peace cannot be sustained in Sierra Leone until controls are imposed on the illegal selling of diamonds used to finance its civil war, according to a recent study. |
| US: Ebbers Set to Shed His Assets by Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times |