CorpWatch Exclusives
 | Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life
by Nityanand Jayaraman, Special to CorpWatch January 18th, 2011 A U.S.-based company is planning a system of elevated highways in Chennai, India, that will despoil natural resources that humans and wildlife have shared for millennia, environmentalists and villagers claim. Wilbur Smith Associates has won approval for the projects, they further charge, through deceptive practices and corporate sleight of hand. |
 | Toyota: Auto Industry Race to the Bottom by Barbara Briggs, Special to CorpWatch September 16th, 2008 Globally, Toyota is known for its innovation and quality of products like the Prius hybrid. A closer look at operations in Japan, the Philippines, Myanmar and the U.S. reveals a story of extreme working conditions, union-busting and other corporate abuses. In Japan and elsewhere, workers are speaking out. |
 | Iraqi Port Weathers Danish Storm by Lotte Folke Kaarsholm, Charlotte Aagaard and Osama Al-Habahbeh, Special to CorpWatch January 31st, 2006 High-ranking officials from the United States as well as Iraq accuse the Danish shipping company Maersk of having taken advantage of the chaos of war in order to grab control of Iraq’s oil port. |
 | Driving Into Danger by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch March 29th, 2005 A grieving family is suing Halliburton for the wrongful death of Tony Johnson, a truck driver killed while en route on the deadliest day the Iraq war has seen so far. Did the company knowingly place their workers in harm's way? The Johnsons -- and the flood of families waiting to file similar lawsuits -- say they did. |
 | Paving the Amazon with Soy
by Sasha Lilley, Special to CorpWatch December 16th, 2004 Soy rules the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso and it's not the soy that much of the world associates with the ostensibly eco-friendly, vegetarian diet, either. With help from the World Bank, André Maggi (the Soy King) is bankrolling the destruction of one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems: the savanna. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
| 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. |