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Published by The Chicago Tribune | By Cam Simpson | Sunday, April 23, 2006

Gen. George Casey ordered that contractors be required by May 1 to return passports that have been illegally confiscated from laborers on U.S. bases after determining that such practices violated U.S. laws against trafficking for forced or coerced labor

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Published by The Washington Post | By David B. Ottaway | Friday, April 21, 2006

Backers of a multibillion-dollar proposal to ship vast stores of liquid natural gas from Peru's Amazonian rain forest to the United States are seeking Bush administration support for international financing, but environmental questions are complicating the bid.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Kari Lydersen | Thursday, April 20, 2006

Shopping in a Target store, you know you're not in Wal-Mart. But, critics say that in terms of working conditions, sweatshop-style foreign suppliers, and effects on local retail communities, big box Target stores are very much like Wal-Mart, just in a prettier package.

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Published by The Washington Post | By Griff Witte | Wednesday, April 19, 2006

An American businessman who is at the heart of one of the biggest corruption cases to emerge from the reconstruction of Iraq has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery and money-laundering charges, according to documents unsealed yesterday in federal court in Washington.

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Published by Agence France Presse | By | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Hong Kong supermarkets have halted some vegetable sales amid a new food scare after pressure group Greenpeace accused grocery chains of selling produce tainted with dangerous levels of pesticides.

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Published by bloomberg | By Robert Schmidt | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Contractor pleads guilty to conspiracy, bribery and money laundering in connection with a bid-rigging of Iraq reconstruction contracts.

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Published by The Progressive | By Ruth Conniff | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary recently reprimanded for gross overcharging in its military contracts in Iraq, won a $385 million contract to build large-scale detention centers in case of an "emergency influx" of immigrants.

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Published by Associated Press | By Mark Sherman | Tuesday, April 18, 2006

With millions of dollars in Iraqi reconstruction contracts to be had, Philip H. Bloom offered up money, cars, premium airline seats, jewelry, alcohol, even sexual favors from women at his villa in Baghdad.

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