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.
| 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. |
 | 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? |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |