http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15402 <div class="text blurb">Villagers living near a gold mine owned and run by Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp. in Tarime District, Mara Region are demanding the immediate closure of the project, saying they are paying a deadly price for the mining activities in the area. </div> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15402 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15406 <div class="text blurb">A criminal saga that began in December with a string of superlatives — the largest, longest and most widespread Ponzi scheme in history — ended the same way on Monday as Bernard L. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum for his crimes.</div> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15406 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15403 <div class="text blurb">The Internal Revenue Service is demanding that hedge-fund and private-equity investors disclose hundreds of billions of dollars they have invested offshore, boosting scrutiny of accounts popular for tax advantages. </div> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15403 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15401 <div class="text blurb">In another example of the revolving door between industry and government, the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate is recruiting more than a dozen project managers to speed up its review of new nuclear reactor designs – even though those managers work for the companies hoping to build the reactors.</div> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15401 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15400 <div class="text blurb">A report submitted this week to a court in Ecuador finding dangerous levels of contamination at oil wells Chevron says it cleaned up in the 1990s is expected to reinforce a fraud indictment against two Chevron lawyers in a $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil company.</div> Thu, 25 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15400 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15399 <div class="text blurb">Officials are meeting to review the Kimberley Process, amid criticism that the scheme, set up to certify the origin of diamonds to assure consumers that by purchasing diamonds they are not financing war and human rights abuses, is failing. The Kimberley Process emerged from global outrage over conflicts in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, largely funded by the plundering of diamond resources.</div> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15399 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15394 <div class="text blurb">Next week, Iraqi officials will auction off oil contracts to foreign companies for the first time since Iraq nationalized its oil industry three decades ago. Some 120 companies expressed interest in bidding for the contracts, and thirty-five companies qualified. They include Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Italy's Eni SpA, Russia's Lukoil and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., or Sinopec.</div> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15394 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15405 <div class="text blurb">European telecommunications companies including Siemens AG and Nokia Corp provided deep packet inspection capability installed with the Iranian governments telecom hub allowing the Iranian government to monitor dissent. Nokia spokesperson Mr. Roome said the company "does have a choice about whether to do business in any country. We believe providing people, wherever they are, with the ability to communicate is preferable to leaving them without the choice to be heard." </div> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15405 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15398 <div class="text blurb">Three lawsuits filed on Monday provided new details about what regulators say went on inside Bernard L. Madoff’s long-running Ponzi scheme, including information about who might have helped perpetuate the fraud for so long.</div> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15398 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15396 <div class="text blurb">Many hedge funds were relieved when the Obama administration's financial-overhaul plan included no big surprises to the lucrative, secretive industry. In 2008, major hedge funds and their trade groups spent $6.1 million lobbying Washington, up from $4.2 million in 2007 and nearly seven times the $897,000 average from 2003 to 2006. </div> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15396 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15390 <div class="text blurb">The Iranian regime has developed one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet. The Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection. The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company.</div> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15390 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15395 <div class="text blurb">The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission told six utility companies they have until year-end to explain plans to remedy shortfalls in nuclear decommissioning funds. The license holders receiving notice -- Exelon Corp., Entergy Corp., Constellation Energy Group Inc., FPL Group, First Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority -- include some of the industry's biggest names.</div> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15395 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15389 <div class="text blurb">A U.S. Justice Department indictment unsealed Friday accused R. Allen Stanford of Stanford International Bank, based in the Caribbean money haven of Antigua, of operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme with the help of Antigua’s top banking regulator, Leroy King.</div> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15389 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15388 <div class="text blurb">After meeting with managers of the Chinese operations of Google on Thursday to warn them, the Chinese government disabled some search functions on the Chinese-language Web site of Google on Friday. Officials alleged the site was linking too often to pornographic and vulgar content.</div> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15388 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15386 <div class="text blurb">In early May, the Obama administration announced plans to eliminate the advantages that multinationals have over domestic corporations as to the tax treatment of reinvested profits. K Street corporate lobbyists haven’t squealed so loudly since they lost their three martini lunches. The uproar draws attention away from the fact that U.S. multinationals enjoy an effective tax rate of just 2.4 percent on billions of dollars in foreign active earnings.</div> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15386