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.
| 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |