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New Book on Corporations: Gangs of America by Ted Nace

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/new-book-corporations-gangs-america-ted-nace

Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out of control. According to a Business Week/Harris poll released in September 2000, 82 percent of those surveyed agreed that ''business has too much power over too many aspects of our lives.'' And the recent revelations of corporate scandal and political influence have only added to such concerns.

Stop Bechtel and the Corporate Invasion of Iraq

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/stop-bechtel-and-corporate-invasion-iraq

San Francisco On Sunday, June 1, Direct Action to Stop the War kicks off a week of activities culminating in protests at Bechtels headquarters in San Francisco and offices throughout the country. Activists will expose Bechtels role in both instigating and profiting off of the war against Iraq at the expense of both the Iraqi and American people. The activist demand that the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people take precedence over corporate profits in the rebuilding effort and that the corporate invasion of Iraq and the Middle East be stopped.

Nigeria: Halliburton Pays Bribes to Lower Taxes

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/nigeria-halliburton-pays-bribes-lower-taxes

WASHINGTON -- A Halliburton Co. subsidiary paid bribes totaling $2.4 million to a tax official in Nigeria in an effort to obtain favorable tax treatment, the company has revealed.

Canada's Campaign Finance Reform Bill

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/canadas-campaign-finance-reform-bill

Bill C-24 has the potential to be a precedent-setting law for Canada and a model for other countries, including the United States. Big corporations and wealthy individuals have influence in politics, and campaign donations are a major avenue of influence. Limiting donations and reducing election spending is a moral imperative for our political leaders

USA: Interior Department Investigates Official's Role as Oil Lobbyist

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/usa-interior-department-investigates-officials-role-oil-lobbyist

Responding to a request from Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut and a candidate for president, the inspector general of the Interior Department is investigating possible conflicts of interest involving a top Interior official who used to be a lobbyist for the oil, gas and mining interests he now regulates.

CENTRAL AMERICA: Experts, Citizens Fear Economic Fallout of Iraq War

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/central-america-experts-citizens-fear-economic-fallout-iraq-war

Ral Carballo, a nearly-blind street vendor in the capital of Costa Rica, is just one of the 4.3 million Central Americans working in the informal economy who have already begun to feel the indirect effects of the war on Iraq.

USA: Cheney is Still Paid by Pentagon Contractor

http://www.corpwatch.org/article/usa-cheney-still-paid-pentagon-contractor

Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.