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Mining companies operating in Peru are seeing increasing millions in profits as a result of the surge in international prices for metals, but few are contributing what is needed to alleviate the poverty of the people living in mining areas.

Katrina costs to taxpayers are skyrocketing. CorpWatch knows why: profiteering.

Thomas Frank explains how fundamentaliust conservative ideology doesn't just breed corruption, it is corruption.

When claims were first published on the front pages of Indian newspapers this month that Coca-Cola and PepsiCo beverages were contaminated with pesticides, executives at the two companies were breezily confident that they could handle the issue.

Three weeks later, though, they are still struggling to win back Indian consumers. One-quarter of India's component states have imposed partial bans on their products, and a complex legal battle to overturn those bans is only just beginning.

Water experts and businesses teamed up on Tuesday to fight corruption feared to be siphoning off billions of dollars from projects to supply drinking water to the Third World.

As the World Health Organisation's top man in Thailand, William Aldis knew Thai officials were hosting their US counterparts in the northern city of Chiang Mai to negotiate what to many outsiders might seem an entirely worthy objective: a bi­lateral free-trade deal. But he saw dangers - and decided to make his views public.

In the lexicon of American business, "cynicism" means doubt about the benevolence of market forces, and it is a vice of special destructiveness. Those who live or work in Washington, however, know another variant of cynicism, a fruitful one, a munificent one, a cynicism that is, in fact, the health of the conservative state.

The fiscal impact of Hurricane Katrina, the most costly natural disaster in U.S. history, shows no sign of ending.

Ottawa may have the reputation of a government town, but it's also home to Canada's military-industrial complex.

Municipal Wi-Fi has the potential to be a viable alternative for people sick of the same choices when it comes to Internet access But with powerful corporate interests opposing it and a disinterested Congress, the road ahead is rough.