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Chemicals
Protestors Halt Copper Alloy Plant In Sichuan Province
Coming Soon to CNN: The PVC Manufacturing Capital of America
Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
CHINA: Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively
25 Years and Still Fighting for Justice: When Will Dow Chemical Clean Up Its Poisonous Legacy in Bhopal
Bhopal: Generations of Poison
US: Monsanto's dominance draws antitrust inquiry
IVORY COAST: Trafigura offers deal to 31,000 Africans over dumped waste
IVORY COAST: Trafigura offers deal to 31,000 Africans over dumped waste
IVORY COAST: Toxic waste: company to pay
Construction
Construction Company Bribery Scandal Threatens Spanish Ruling Party
Mystery Threats Dog Russian Activists Fighting Vinci Highway Joint Venture
Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
US: Deputy SecDef could earn $500K lobbying Pentagon
Iraq: Introducing DisneyIraq: The Unhappiest Place on Earth
US: Concrete contractor cuts deal with prosecutors
FRANCE: Prosecutors probe Alstom for contract corruption
US: Holes in the Wall
US: Protests Greet Nuclear Power Resurgence in US South
CHINA: China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories
Energy
BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Tar Sands Activist Interrupts Texas Oil & Gas Conference
Chevron Sues Its Own Shareholders In Ecuador Compensation Battle
Frackademia: How the Fracking Industry Tries To Bully Or Buy Scientists
Deadly Conflict Over Honduran Palm Oil Plantations Spotlights CEO
Argentine Judge Freezes Chevron Assets To Pay $19 Billion Ecuador Fine
Indigenous Protestors Against Guatemala Energy Company Targeted
Gazprom Arctic Oil Rig Blockaded By Greenpeace
Coral Before Coal: Great Barrier Reef Projects Halted
How Obama Helped Authorize Shell’s Drilling the Arctic
Enron
Food and Agriculture
Mehadrin "Jaffa" Oranges May Come from Occupied Palestinian Land
Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Sierra Leone Farmers Evicted for Sugarcane Biofuel Plantations
Sweet Nothing: UK Food Giant Avoids Taxes on Zambia Sugar
Nestlé Found Guilty of Spying on Swiss Activists
Argentine Farm Sales Raise Questions of Land Speculation By Soros
Agribusiness Buys California Votes
Starbucks: Espresso for Investors, Watery Americano in UK Taxes
Stanford Organics Study A “Fraud” – Linked to Cargill & Tobacco Money
Cambodian Activists Call for International Sugar Boycott
Manufacturing
Clash At Maruti Suzuki Car Factory Reflects Failures Of India, Inc.
Protestors Halt Copper Alloy Plant In Sichuan Province
SERBIA: One-Dollar Steel Mill Exposes Cracks In Privatisation
Indian Betel Farmers Battle South Korean Steel Giant
Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
CHINA: Slump Tilts Priorities of Industry in China
Regulating Ramatex: Authorities Shut Out as Malaysian Investor Threatens Namibian Environment
AFRICA/CHINA: As Chinese Investment in Africa Drops, Hope Sinks
US: Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests
JAPAN: Nissan to Slash Payroll, Pare Japanese Output
Media & Entertainment
United Nations, Olympics Accused of Using “Unaccountable” Private Security
Elsevier Versus Wikipedia: Academics Revolt Against Giant Publisher
Facebook Lobbies Washington to “Like” Spying on Users
US/CHINA: U.S. Holds Fire in Google-China Feud
IRELAND: U2 rattled by claims of tax dodging
US: Radio Host Has Drug Company Ties
IRAQ: U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media
Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders
US: When a Corporate Donation Raises Protests
US: Comcast Defends Role As Internet Traffic Cop
Natural Resources
South African Gold Miners Sue Over Deadly Lung Disease
Damming the Ngäbe: Aftermath of an AES Power Project in Panama
Mongolian Nomadic Herders Worry About Impact of Rio Tinto's Gold Mine
Cameroon Palm Oil Plantation Withdraws Sustainability Application
Grupo San Jose Linked to Bulldozing of Land of Paraguayan Uncontacted Tribe
Obama Administration Backs Shell in Supreme Court Case
Turmoil at South Africa’s Platinum Mines
Chevron Face Opposition Over Eastern Europe Fracking Plans
Congo Copper Mine Deals Questioned
Malaysian Water Company Claims To Have Run Dry
Pharmaceuticals
Medical Trial Data Activists Score Win Over Glaxo
UK Pathology Labs Suffer In Quality Under Serco Management
Indian Supreme Court to Hear Novartis “Patents Versus Patients” Case
Pfizer Admits Bribery in Eight Countries
Court to Hear Challenge to Myriad’s Human Gene Patent
Fake Drug Plague or Pharmaceutical Industry Attack on Generics?
Fighting Malaria: Big Pharma or Better Aid Coordination?
Johnson & Johnson Fined $1.2 Billion for Drug Labeling Failure
Deadly Blow to Death Penalty Drugs
India Ends Bayer Monopoly, Helps Slash Prices for Life-Saving Drugs
Retail & Mega-Stores
Walmart Faces Increased Scrutiny Over Bangladesh Sweatshop Fire
H&M Targeted for Uzbek Cotton Allegedly Grown with Forced Labor
Forever 21 Fails to Comply With Federal Sweatshop Investigation
India’s Retail Sector: Ripe for the Picking
Bribing Mexico: Walmart Accused of Corruption
Greenwashing Walmart
Exploiting Indonesia: Adidas for London Olympics 2012
Dollar Stores: Top Link in the Sweatshop Chain
Wal-Mart’s (Un)sustainability Index
WORLD: The Jewel Trade's Fading Luster
Technology & Telecommunications
“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Taiwanese Display Manufacturer Fined $500 Million for Price-Fixing
Big Brother in Iran: With A Little Help From Chinese and European Companies
AT&T Allegedly Profited From Nigerian Scam Artists
CHINA: Group Says It Has New Evidence of Cisco’s Misdeeds in China
US: U.S. Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic
CHINA/US: Google Partners Call For Clarity on China Plans
CHINA/US: China Issues Warning to Major Partners of Google
CHINA: China Ratchets Up Web Privacy Fight
FRANCE: In French Inquiry, a Glimpse at Corporate Spying
Tobacco
Smokeless Tobacco Lobbyists Set Off European Alarms
Big Tobacco Battles Advertising Restrictions
US/WORLD: Smokeless Tobacco to Get Push by Venture Overseas
US: Tobacco Trial Opens in Florida, First of Many Suits
US: Altria Ruling Ignites Legal Moves
US: Altria Said to Be in Talks With Tobacco Maker UST
Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct
US: Menthol Dose Manipulated, Study Says
TOBACCO: Altria Drops New Filter Cigarettes, In Strategy Setback
TOBACCO: FTC Counters Altria In 'Light' Cigarettes Case
Tourism & Real Estate
Serengeti Under Threat from UAE Big Game Hunting Company
Greenwashing the Olympics
Sweatships at Sea: Carnival Cruises Pay Below International Standards
Iraq: Introducing DisneyIraq: The Unhappiest Place on Earth
US: Art Auctions on Cruise Ships Lead to Anger, Accusations and Lawsuits
Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders
GLOBAL: Slum Visits: Tourism or Voyeurism?
US: Holes in the Wall
Bulgarian Ski Complex Threatens Rila National Park
US: Inuit sue US government over BP land usage
Transportation
KLM's 'Green' Planes Fly Into Controversy
U.S.-E.U.: WTO rules Boeing got $5B in illegal US subsidies
Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life
CANADA: Canadian Rail Engineers Begin a Strike
Toyota: Auto Industry Race to the Bottom
US: American Airlines Hit By $7.1 Million in Fines
US: Airlines fined $504m in US probe
US: Study says diesel emissions raise cancer risk
Bye, American
US: 73,000 U.A.W. Members Go on Strike Against G.M.
War & Disaster Profiteering
Mehadrin "Jaffa" Oranges May Come from Occupied Palestinian Land
Boeing Helps Kill Proposed Law to Regulate Drones
Contractors Alleged to Abuse Alcohol, Drugs, Guns at Parties In Afghanistan
Payments to Saudi Generals Investigated in UK Military Contract Bribery Case
TrapWire Leaks Shine Light on New Video Tracking Technologies
Blackwater Pays Millions To Settle Arms Smuggling Charges
U.S. Federal Agencies Targeted Employees With Commercial Spy Software
United Nations, Olympics Accused of Using “Unaccountable” Private Security
Spies in Africa’s Skies: New Contractors for the Pentagon
CIA "Rendition" Contractors Data Cache To Be Released
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Blackwater USA
Blackwater Pays Millions To Settle Arms Smuggling Charges
AFGHANISTAN: Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
US: Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting
IRAQ: Ex-Blackwater Workers May Return to Iraq Jobs
US: Plea by Blackwater Guard Helps Indict Others
Over the Counter Intelligence
GERMANY: German Arms Firm Ends Blackwater Deal After TV Report
US: Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults
US: CIA Likely Let Contractors Perform Waterboarding
US: Contractor Abuses Rarely Punished, Groups Say
Boeing
U.S.-E.U.: WTO rules Boeing got $5B in illegal US subsidies
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys
US: Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons
US: The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon
US: 2nd Walkout at Boeing in 3 Years
US: Former Colo. nuke plant contractors ordered to pay $925M
INDIA: Gates in India to push US firms
US: Holes in the Wall
CSC/ DynCorp
US: Senators Call For Changes to Troubled, Costly Afghan Police Training Program
AFGHANISTAN: Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
US: DynCorp Fires Executive Counsel
US: DynCorp Billed U.S. $50 Million Beyond Costs in Defense Contract
Policing Afghanistan: Obama's New Strategy
IRAQ: Controversial Contractor’s Iraq Work Is Split Up
US: Contractors Back From Iraq Suffer Trauma From Battle
IRAQ: A Private Realm Of Intelligence-Gathering; Firm Extends U.S. Government's Reach
AFGHANISTAN: The Reach of War; U.S. Report Finds Dismal Training of Afghan Police
IRAQ: How Iraq Police Reform Became Casualty of War
General Dynamics
US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors
General Electric
Obama's Tax Haven Reform: Chump Change
US: Energy Group Plans to Build Nuclear Plants in Gulf States
US: Software Firms Say FBI Eavesdropping Unacceptable
Halliburton
US/IRAQ: U.S. Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza
Bush is gone, but Halliburton keeps cashing checks
Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten? Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq
Book Release: "Halliburton's Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized The Way America Makes War"
An extended interview with the author of Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War.
US: Halliburton Ex-Official Pleads Guilty in Bribe Case
US: KBR stake under attack
KATRINA: Audit Faults KBR's Repairs of Hurricane Damage
US: Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
Over the Counter Intelligence
Lockheed Martin
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys
ISRAEL: U.S.-Israel jet deal sought: Pentagon backs sale of next-generation F-35s fighters to ally
ISRAEL: U.S. approves $330 million in arms deals for Israel
Over the Counter Intelligence
US: Lockheed Faulted for Failure to Control Costs
INDIA: Gates in India to push US firms
US: Failure to Launch: In Death of Spy Satellite Program, Lofty Plans and Unrealistic Bids
Northrop Grumman
Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
US: The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon
UK: FBI wants instant access to British identity data
Domestic Spying, Inc.
INDIA: Building a Modern Arsenal in India
US: Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control
KATRINA: Northrop Makes Pitch for Storm Aid
US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors
US: Court Documents Unsealed in Northrop Grumman Case
Raytheon
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
US: Deputy SecDef could earn $500K lobbying Pentagon
ISRAEL: U.S. approves $330 million in arms deals for Israel
US: Giuliani Had Ties to Company Trying to Sell Border Technology
UK: Weapons firm's role in St Athan academy condemned
INDIA: Building a Modern Arsenal in India
US: Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control
US: Chief's Pay Is Docked by Raytheon
Science Applications International Corporation
Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
US: Cash-rich SAIC hits the acquisition trail
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys
Over the Counter Intelligence
Domestic Spying, Inc.
IRAQ: 'Pentagon Moved to Fix Iraqi Media Before Invasion'
CHINA: At Nike Plant, no Sweatshop, Plenty of Sweat
US: Computer Technicians Sue CSC to Seek Overtime Pay
United Technologies
Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors
US: United Technologies' Chairman Collects $70 Million in Salary, Stock Options
US: Army cancels Comanche helicopter project
UK: US group secures Chubb for £620m
US: A Blank Check from Washington for Colombia's Dirty War
China: Reviewing Ban of the Arms sales on China
US: Old hands hold hands with Beijing on trade policy
Tool Kit
Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast Fact Sheet
Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast
Iraq's Private Warriors
Ongoing Investigations Into Haliburton as of April 2005
Top Military Contractors
Groups Organizing Against War Profiteering
Halliburton Fact Sheet
War Profiteers Site
PAKISTAN: Attack in Pakistani Garrison City Raises Anxiety About Safety of Nuclear Labs and Staff
CorpWatch announces release of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API
Inheriting Halliburton's Army: What Will Obama Do With KBR?
US: Company Gets Pentagon Contract Despite Death Inquiries
Book Release: "Halliburton's Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized The Way America Makes War"
Norway finds Canada's largest publicly-traded company, Barrick Gold, unethical
An extended interview with the author of Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War.
US: Deputy SecDef could earn $500K lobbying Pentagon
IRAQ: Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
US: Plea by Blackwater Guard Helps Indict Others
WP Issues Library
Norway finds Canada's largest publicly-traded company, Barrick Gold, unethical
ISRAEL: U.S. approves $330 million in arms deals for Israel
US: 'America's private army' under fire for Illinois facility
US: Contractors Back From Iraq Suffer Trauma From Battle
US: In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever
US: Border Policy's Success Strains Resources: Tent City in Texas Among Immigrant Holding Sites Drawing Criticism
Labor Day ‘Executive Excess’ report: Oil and Defense CEOs Pocket the Spoils
Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast
INDIA: Bechtel Sells Its Stake In Dabhol Power Plant
Intelligence
Raytheon Video Claims Riot Software Can Track Users Via Social Networks
U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
US/AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts
AFGHANISTAN/US: Outsourcing intelligence
Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
AFGHANISTAN/US: Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
US/CHINA: U.S. Holds Fire in Google-China Feud
AFGHANISTAN: Lost in Limbo: Injured Afghan Translators Struggle to Survive
Spies for Hire: New Online Database of U.S. Intelligence Contractors
Mission Essential, Translators Expendable
Logistics
Subcontracting Substandard Services
U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
Agility Attempts to Vault Fraud Charges
Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten? Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
Inheriting Halliburton's Army: What Will Obama Do With KBR?
An extended interview with the author of Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War.
US/IRAQ: Indiana guardsmen sue defense contractor KBR
US: Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
US: Inside the world of war profiteers
Reconstruction
Afghanistan, Inc.: A CorpWatch Investigative Report (2006)
Inspector General reports confirm CorpWatch story on Afghan power plant
AFGHANISTAN: Iraq Lessons Ignored at Kabul Power Plant
US/KUWAIT: Settlement possible in military contractor fraud case
IRAQ: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
Black & Veatch's Tarakhil Power Plant: White Elephant in Kabul
AFGHANISTAN: Paying Off the Warlords, Anatomy of an Afghan Culture of Corruption
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Company Gets Pentagon Contract Despite Death Inquiries
Book Release: "Halliburton's Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized The Way America Makes War"
Security
U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
US/AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN: U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts
US: Senators Call For Changes to Troubled, Costly Afghan Police Training Program
AFGHANISTAN: Policing Afghanistan: How Afghan Police Training Became a Train Wreck
NIGERIA: Ex-militant leader heads SPDC’s patrol team
US: Judge dismisses all charges in Blackwater shooting
IRAQ: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
AFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
AFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
AFGHANISTAN: Wackenhut aids inquiry into its Afghanistan contractor
Weapons Makers
US: Obama's Budget Calls for Billions in New Spending for Drones
US: F.B.I. Charges Arms Sellers With Foreign Bribes
IRAQ: The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
US: Despite Slump, U.S. Role as Top Arms Supplier Grows
CorpWatch Bribery Report Helps Spark Dutch Inquiry
PAKISTAN: Attack in Pakistani Garrison City Raises Anxiety About Safety of Nuclear Labs and Staff
US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out
US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys
US: Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons
MEXICO: U.S. Is Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
Issues
Uruguay: Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper
Consumerism & Commercialism
Forever 21 Fails to Comply With Federal Sweatshop Investigation
India’s Retail Sector: Ripe for the Picking
Greenwashing the Olympics
Wal-Mart’s (Un)sustainability Index
US: Industry Takes Aim at Plan to Create Financial Protection Agency
US: Activist Financier 'Terrorizes' Bankers in Foreclosure Fight
Mexico’s Other Crisis: Foreign Banks
US: Debt Settlers Offer Promises but Little Help
WORLD: The Jewel Trade's Fading Luster
US: Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests
Corruption
Cyprus Banks Gamble Away Russian Billions
Wall Street Giants – JP Morgan and SAC – Hauled Up On Fraud Allegations
U.S. Prosecutors Build Case Against Steve Cohen, Hedge Fund Billionaire
Sweet Nothing: UK Food Giant Avoids Taxes on Zambia Sugar
Medical Trial Data Activists Score Win Over Glaxo
“Alchemy” Investigation Alleges Wall Street Fraud at Standard & Poor’s
Construction Company Bribery Scandal Threatens Spanish Ruling Party
Morgan Stanley Knew About “Nuclear Holocaust” Mortgage Loans, Taiwanese Lawsuit Reveals
Thanks But No Thanks: Insurance Company Considers Suing Uncle Sam After Rescue
U.S. Banks Win Mortgage Fraud Settlement, Borrowers Lose
Environment
BP Goes on Trial for Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Tar Sands Activist Interrupts Texas Oil & Gas Conference
Chevron Sues Its Own Shareholders In Ecuador Compensation Battle
Frackademia: How the Fracking Industry Tries To Bully Or Buy Scientists
Argentine Farm Sales Raise Questions of Land Speculation By Soros
Argentine Judge Freezes Chevron Assets To Pay $19 Billion Ecuador Fine
Damming the Ngäbe: Aftermath of an AES Power Project in Panama
BP Wants To Blame Workers For Deepwater Horizon Spill, Says U.S.
Mongolian Nomadic Herders Worry About Impact of Rio Tinto's Gold Mine
Cameroon Palm Oil Plantation Withdraws Sustainability Application
Executive Compensation
“Fat Cat” Laws Approved In Europe To Curb Excessive Corporate Pay
Do Not Pay Dozen: 12 CEOs Who Met Shareholder Spring Revolts
Shareholder Spring Spreads: CEOs Ousted in the UK, Bank of America Protested
Bankers Bonanzas Protested By Blue Eagles and A Cigar-Smoking Rat
Barclays Bankers Bonanza
UK: GlaxoSmithKline chief's pay package more than doubles to £6.7m
WORLD: Top Hedge Fund Managers Took Home $13 billion In 2011
US: Banks Set for Record Pay
US: So You Squandered Billions --- Take Another Whack At It
US: House votes to rein in ‘excessive pay’ for company execs
Globalization
Global Ambulance Chasers: Lawyers Profit From Suing States for Multinationals
Rio+20 Ends in Failure, Corporate Capture
Rio+20 Summit Weasels Out On Holding Corporations to Account
Offshore Corporate Tax Havens: Why Are They Still Allowed?
LIBERIA: Hunting for Liberia’s Missing Millions
NIGERIA: Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report
US: Oil Hits Home, Spreading Arc of Frustration
ADM's New Frontiers: Palm Oil Deforestation and Child Labor
BP: Beyond Petroleum or Beyond Preposterous? (2000)
Health
Stanford Organics Study A “Fraud” – Linked to Cargill & Tobacco Money
Big Tobacco Battles Advertising Restrictions
Indian Supreme Court to Hear Novartis “Patents Versus Patients” Case
Hospital Corporation of America Allegedly Profited From Questionable Cardiac Procedures
Fighting Malaria: Big Pharma or Better Aid Coordination?
Grey Market Drugs: Profiting from Poorly Managed U.S. Health Care
NIGERIA: Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
WORLD: Disaster Plans Lacking at Deep Rigs
US: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
US: BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill'
Human Rights
Capita Bungles Deportation of Irregular Migrants in UK
Raytheon Video Claims Riot Software Can Track Users Via Social Networks
Nestlé Found Guilty of Spying on Swiss Activists
“Cyberazzi” – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
Walmart Faces Increased Scrutiny Over Bangladesh Sweatshop Fire
Deadly Conflict Over Honduran Palm Oil Plantations Spotlights CEO
Private Prison for Asylum Seekers on Pacific Island
Cambodian Activists Call for International Sugar Boycott
Obama Administration Backs Shell in Supreme Court Case
Serengeti Under Threat from UAE Big Game Hunting Company
Labor
Boeing Helps Kill Proposed Law to Regulate Drones
South African Gold Miners Sue Over Deadly Lung Disease
H&M Targeted for Uzbek Cotton Allegedly Grown with Forced Labor
Turmoil at South Africa’s Platinum Mines
Bolivia pushes back against Swiss commodities giant Glencore
KLM's 'Green' Planes Fly Into Controversy
Sweatships at Sea: Carnival Cruises Pay Below International Standards
Global Horizons Indicted for Human Trafficking
WORLD: Disaster Plans Lacking at Deep Rigs
US: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
Money & Politics
Agribusiness Buys California Votes
Forgiving Siemens: Unraveling a Tangled Tale of German Corruption in Greece
How to Make A (Foreign) Wall Street Bank Vanish
U.S.: Clawbacks Without Claws
Citizens United v. America's Citizens
U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
Offshore Corporate Tax Havens: Why Are They Still Allowed?
LIBERIA: Hunting for Liberia’s Missing Millions
NIGERIA: Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report
Privatization
Sierra Leone Farmers Evicted for Sugarcane Biofuel Plantations
Capita Bungles Deportation of Irregular Migrants in UK
Contractors Alleged to Abuse Alcohol, Drugs, Guns at Parties In Afghanistan
Indigenous Protestors Against Guatemala Energy Company Targeted
UK Pathology Labs Suffer In Quality Under Serco Management
Private Prison for Asylum Seekers on Pacific Island
Malaysian Water Company Claims To Have Run Dry
Court to Hear Challenge to Myriad’s Human Gene Patent
Repsol Sues Argentina for $10 Billion Over YPF Nationalization
Elsevier Versus Wikipedia: Academics Revolt Against Giant Publisher
Regulation
Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
Starbucks: Espresso for Investors, Watery Americano in UK Taxes
Seven Irish Banks Investigated for Insurance Scam
Fake Drug Plague or Pharmaceutical Industry Attack on Generics?
Unsticking Food Lobbyists in Europe
U.S.: Will Wall Street Ever Face Justice?
Offshore Corporate Tax Havens: Why Are They Still Allowed?
NIGERIA: Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report
US: Oil Hits Home, Spreading Arc of Frustration
Trade Justice
BURMA: Pressure Mounts on Energy Giant Chevron to Disclose Revenue
EUROPE: Europe’s Vast Farm Subsidies Face Challenges
FIJI: Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle
Regulating Ramatex: Authorities Shut Out as Malaysian Investor Threatens Namibian Environment
Norway finds Canada's largest publicly-traded company, Barrick Gold, unethical
Popular Uprising Against Barrick Gold in Tanzania sparked by killing of local
TANZANIA: Villagers storm Barrick gold mine: Inflict much damage, FFU police deployed to disperse them
GUINEA: One killed in Guinea protest over bauxite trains
Calls grow for a new model for global trade
CHILE: Native Community in Desert Oasis Threatened by Mines
World Financial Institutions
Bailing out Germany: The Story Behind the European Financial Crisis
The IDB—50 Years, Zero Reflection
Who Will Determine the Future of Capitalism?
Norway finds Canada's largest publicly-traded company, Barrick Gold, unethical
Calls grow for a new model for global trade
EU: Court hits at Brussels secrecy
CONGO: World Bank accused of razing Congo forests
Digging for Dirt in the DRC?
BRITAIN: Companies 'looting' a continent
WORLD: A Way for Resource-Rich Countries to Audit Their Way Out of Corruption
Financial Services, Insurance and Banking
Cyprus Banks Gamble Away Russian Billions
Wall Street Giants – JP Morgan and SAC – Hauled Up On Fraud Allegations
“Fat Cat” Laws Approved In Europe To Curb Excessive Corporate Pay
U.S. Prosecutors Build Case Against Steve Cohen, Hedge Fund Billionaire
“Alchemy” Investigation Alleges Wall Street Fraud at Standard & Poor’s
Morgan Stanley Knew About “Nuclear Holocaust” Mortgage Loans, Taiwanese Lawsuit Reveals
Thanks But No Thanks: Insurance Company Considers Suing Uncle Sam After Rescue
U.S. Banks Win Mortgage Fraud Settlement, Borrowers Lose
U.S. Sues Bank of America for $1 Billion in Bad Mortgages
Seven Irish Banks Investigated for Insurance Scam
So You Squandered Billions -Take Another Whack at it
Campaigns

Current Campaigns
Gasoline Crisis in Iraq
Book Review: Thrilling Chronicle of Cons, Fools and a Business World Gone Mad
Give War a Chance: the Life and Times of Tim Spicer
US: Department of Justice is Already Monitoring Cable Modems
War & Disaster Profiteers Campaign
Privatizing Asylum Housing: Serco and G4S Get UK Contracts
Calls grow for a new model for global trade
US: Billions over Baghdad; The Spoils of War
IRAQ: Big oil’s waiting game over Iraq’s reserves
CHINA: An Opportunity for Wall St. in China’s Surveillance Boom
US: Iraq convoy was sent out despite threat
US: Army to examine Iraq contracts
US: Boeing unit subject of refiled CIA-flight suit
IRAQ: For Abducted Guards, Iraq Wasn't Just About Money
US: 'America's private army' under fire for Illinois facility
Past Campaigns
WORLD: Private Armed Escorts in High Demand on Sea
Corporate Influence on the Elections
US: Early-voting problems in Putnam: Touch-screen votes switched, then corrected
The Presidential Pipeline
US: The Presidential Pipeline: Kerry Backers Still Feel Sting of Losing 2004 Presidential Contest
US: The Presidential Pipeline: Bush Money Network Rooted in Florida, Texas
US: Presidential Pipeline: Bush's Top Fund-Raisers See Spoils of Victory
US: Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
NIGERIA: Chevron Paid Troops After Alleged Killing
USA: Senate Approves Bill Worth $140 Billion in Corporate Tax Breaks
Banking on Elections
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