CorpWatch Exclusives
 | BP Wants To Blame Workers For Deepwater Horizon Spill, Says U.S. by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog September 27th, 2012 BP, the British oil company, is attempting to blame "blue collar workers" for the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, alleges the U.S. government. Federal lawyers say the company is trying to divert attention from management failures of "gross negligence." |
 | DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch February 26th, 2010 Afghan police are widely considered corrupt and unable to shoot straight; they die at twice the rate of Afghan soldiers and NATO troops despite $7 billion spent on training and salaries in the last eight years. A new high-level report says that the State Department's contract with DynCorp is at fault. |
 | Leaving Children Behind by Ben Clarke, Special to CorpWatch September 23rd, 2004 Exam privatization threatens public schools "They make kids in my class feel dumb," says Vanessa Verdín about the corporate-designed standardized tests that millions of U.S. students are required to take under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Vanessa, an energetic eleven year old whose hobbies include soccer, knitting and research, feels that the tests "ask the wrong questions" and "waste time when we could be learning." |
 | Mapuche Lands in Patagonia Taken Over by Benetton Wool Farms by Sebastian Hacher and Pauline Bartolone, Special to CorpWatch November 25th, 2003 To the Mapuche Indians in southern Argentina, the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton is the newest conquistador in 10,000 years of land struggles in Patagonia. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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