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Private Security
Publish, Punish, and Pardon: Nine National Security Changes Obama Should Make Before He Leaves Office
General Atomics Funded U.S. Think Tank That Promoted Increased Drone Exports
Broadspectrum 'Violating' Human Rights At Australian Offshore Detention Centers
Failed Watchkeeper Drone To Be Weaponized For Sale To Poland
U.S. Air Force Hires Private Companies To Fly Drones In War Zones
Swedish Companies Accused Of Profiting Off Refugee Housing
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
French Tribunal Investigates Qosmos Over Surveillance Software Use In Syria
Asylum Seekers Protest Mitie Management of U.K. Detention Center
U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Chemicals
Protestors Halt Copper Alloy Plant In Sichuan Province
Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
Bhopal: Generations of Poison
The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report
An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos
Titanium or Water? Trouble brews in Southern India
Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Respond to Gold Mining's Impacts Worldwide
Construction
Vinci Accused Of Labor Violations on Qatar Construction Contracts
Mega First of Malaysia Under Fire for Lao Dam Construction Plan
Mexican President Accepted Favors From Construction Contractor Grupo Higa
El Salvador Construction Contractor Builds Houses for Wealthy with UK Aid
Vale Expansion in Maranhão Challenged by Local Communities
Caterpillar Uses Swiss Subsidiary to Avoid Billions in Taxes
Serco Paid Millions Over Budget for West Australia Hospital with No Patients
Spanish Consortium Threatens to Stop Panama Canal Expansion
Construction Company Bribery Scandal Threatens Spanish Ruling Party
Mystery Threats Dog Russian Activists Fighting Vinci Highway Joint Venture
Energy
Cairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion Or Drop Back Tax Claim
DESA Employees Arrested In Honduras For Murder Of Activist Berta Cáceres
Global Oil Companies Allegedly Used Monaco Lobbyist To Pay Bribes For Deals
Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
Angolan Fishing Community Asks Chevron For Oil Spill Compensation
Soma Oil & Gas Faces UK Criminal Investigation for Somalia Deals
Shell’s Plans to Drill for Oil in the Arctic Blocked by Greenpeace Climbers
Pemex Secretly Expanding Fracking In Mexico, Say Activists
Soco International Accused of Paying Bribes for Congo Oil Exploration
Food and Agriculture
Goodhope Asia Accused Of Land Grabbing In West Papua For Palm Oil
Robertson Winery Accused Of Slavery-Like Practices In South Africa
Sierra Leone Activists Released After Six Weeks Jail For Protesting Socfin
Agrica’s Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
Nestle Recalls 400 Million Packets of Instant Noodles in India
Australian “Free Range” Chicken Company Alleged to Use Exploited Labor
Florida Tomato Pickers Sign Up New Major Retail Chains For Higher Wages
Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
European Supermarkets Defend Low Wages To Moroccan Tomato Pickers
Indian Rose Exporter Declares Bankruptcy in the Netherlands
Financial Services, Insurance and Banking
Swiss Bank UBS May Be Suspended From Doing Business In Hong Kong
Greece Raids UBS Executive's Home In Effort To Uncover Swiss Tax Evasion
Barclays Traders Jailed In Global Interest Rate Setting Scandal But Not Executives
Citadel's Private Stock Market Platform Under Investigation
Credit Suisse Condemned For Secret Military Loans To Mozambique
Barclays Trial Over Interest Rate Rigging Raises Questions Over Supervision
“Project Omega” Reveals Secrets Of Dark Pools Stock Trading
Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange Manipulation
Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate Rigging
Ernst & Young Pays $10 Million To Settle Lehman Brothers Audit Failure Lawsuit
Manufacturing
Bangladeshi Government Cracks Down On Garment Workers Sweatshop Wage Protests
Takata Fined $1 Billion For Hiding Information on Exploding Car Airbags
Formosa Plastics Admits Vietnam Steel Plant Caused Massive Fish Kill
East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report
China Cracks Down On Guangdong Labor Activists
Music Video Asking Unilever to Clean Up Mercury Waste in India Goes Viral
Swedish Paper Manufacturing Giant Blacklisted for Child Labor Practices
Brazilian Truth Commission Alleges Volkswagen Had Ties To Former Military Junta
Aluminium Bahrain Bribery Case Collapses
Samsung Worker May Have Contracted Cancer at Workplace, Court Finds
Media & Entertainment
Coke and McDonalds Host Carnival of Junk Food Marketing At Rio Olympics
Traffic, Brazilian Sports Company, at Center of World Cup Football Scandal
Data Secrecy Company Accused of Sharing Information with Media and Military
Facebook Changes Names Policy In Partial Victory for Privacy Activists
Verizon (and Google) Helped U.S. Government to Spy on Reporters
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
Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders
An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos
Natural Resources
Native Tribes Protest Energy Transfer Partners North Dakota Oil Pipeline
Zupta Scandal Causes South African Government To Intervene To Save Indian Investor
Malaysian Palm Oil Giant, IOI, Suspended By Industry Body Over Environmental Record
Barrick Gold Compensates Rape Victims in Papua New Guinea
Shell Pays Niger Delta Community $84 Million To Settle Pollution Claims
Families of Murdered Colombians Lose U.S. Lawsuit Against Occidental Petroleum
Firestone Tire's Role in Funding Liberian Warlord Revealed
Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British Columbia
Ten Killed At African Barrick Operations in Tanzania
Coca-Cola Forced To Shut Bottling Plant in India
Pharmaceuticals
Eli Lilly Raised U.S. Prices Of Diabetes Drug 700 Percent Over 20 Years
Six Novartis Executives Charged In Illegal Drug Rebate Scheme In South Korea
Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
Ovarian Cancer Victims Win Talcum Powder Lawsuits Against Johnson & Johnson
Sun Pharma, India's Biggest Drug Producer, Violated Manufacturing Rules
U.S. Doctors Associations Cancel Collaborations With Coca-Cola After Protests
Drugs Tested By GVK Biosciences Banned From European Union
DaVita Pays $895 Million To Settle Kidney Treatment Fraud Claims
Actavis Sued To Stop Forced Switch To New Alzheimer's Drug
Gilead Sciences Under Investigation for Over Charging for Hepatitis C Pill
Retail & Mega-Stores
Garment Factories In Burma Often Violate Labor Laws
Retailer SportsDirect Accused of Sweatshop Like Conditions in the UK
UNIQLO, Japanese Fast Fashion Label, Accused of Labor Violations
Fashion District Businesses Accused of Laundering Mexican Drug Money
Amazon Workers in Germany Strike for Better Pay
Fast Food Workers Hold Biggest Ever Strike For Wages in U.S.
Yue Yuen Shoe Factory Backs Down After Workers Strike for Pensions
Fast Food Workers File Lawsuit Against McDonald’s for Alleged Wage Theft
Cambodian Police Open Fire at Garment Workers Protest, Killing Four
Ikea France Accused of Spying on Employees
Technology & Telecommunications
AT&T; Developed Secret Program To Help U.S. Police Mine Client Phone Records
Garment Factories In Burma Often Violate Labor Laws
VimpelCom Pays $795 Million To Settle Uzbekistan Bribery Investigation
Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Retailer SportsDirect Accused of Sweatshop Like Conditions in the UK
UNIQLO, Japanese Fast Fashion Label, Accused of Labor Violations
Apple Agrees To Chinese Government Security Audits, Worrying Activists
Indian Government Loses Major Tax Case to Vodafone
Fashion District Businesses Accused of Laundering Mexican Drug Money
Amazon Workers in Germany Strike for Better Pay
Tobacco
Uruguay Defeats Philip Morris In Major Win For Anti-Smoking Advocates
Tobacco Companies Ordered to Pay C$15.6 Billion to Quebec Smokers
Uruguay Presents Defense Against Philip Morris Tobacco Lawsuit
Smokeless Tobacco Lobbyists Set Off European Alarms
Big Tobacco Battles Advertising Restrictions
Absolving Your Sins and CYA: Corporations Embrace Voluntary Codes of Conduct
Playing with Children's Lives: Big Tobacco in Malawi
International Tobacco Treaty: Public Health Advocates Face an Uphill Battle
The Fight Against Big Tobacco: Domestic Battles, Global Implications
Big Tobacco and Free Trade
Tourism & Real Estate
Cyrela, Rio Olympic Construction Contractor, Accused Of Mistreating Workers
Panama Papers Leak Reveals Safari Companies In Africa Use Tax Havens
Cambodian Villagers Land Bulldozed for UDG Casino Complex
Thomson Safaris Sued Over Maasai Land Near Serengeti
Serengeti Under Threat from UAE Big Game Hunting Company
Greenwashing the Olympics
Sweatships at Sea: Carnival Cruises Pay Below International Standards
Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders
Bulgarian Ski Complex Threatens Rila National Park
Transportation
Volkswagen Dieselgate Scandal Should Be Used To Fund Clean Vehicle Program
Nicaragua Grand Canal Project Hits Obstacles After Protests Against Developer
Austrian Catering Company Accused of Discriminating Against Hungarian Employees
Toyota May Pay $1 Billion To Settle Unintentional Accelerations Claims
KLM's 'Green' Planes Fly Into Controversy
Indian Roads Endanger Ways of Life
Toyota: Auto Industry Race to the Bottom
Iraqi Port Weathers Danish Storm
Driving Into Danger
West Coast Dockworkers: Victory in the Face of the Bush Doctrine
War & Disaster Profiteering
Publish, Punish, and Pardon: Nine National Security Changes Obama Should Make Before He Leaves Office
General Atomics Funded U.S. Think Tank That Promoted Increased Drone Exports
Failed Watchkeeper Drone To Be Weaponized For Sale To Poland
U.S. Air Force Hires Private Companies To Fly Drones In War Zones
Swedish Companies Accused Of Profiting Off Refugee Housing
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
French Tribunal Investigates Qosmos Over Surveillance Software Use In Syria
Asylum Seekers Protest Mitie Management of U.K. Detention Center
U.S. Government Buys Surveillance Technology To Track Drivers in Real Time
Firestone Tire's Role in Funding Liberian Warlord Revealed
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Blackwater USA
The Jason Bourne Strategy: CIA Contractors Do Hollywood
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
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
KBR and Halliburton Can Be Sued For Iraq Toxic Burn Pits, Court Rules
Trafficking Lawsuit Against KBR for Wrongful Deaths in Iraq Dismissed
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
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
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
United Technologies
Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors
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
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
Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed
French Tribunal Investigates Qosmos Over Surveillance Software Use In Syria
Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters
Turning the Table on the Trackers: Wikileaks Sniffs out Spy Salesmen
Turkmenistan and Oman Negotiated to Buy Spy Software: Wikileaks
Surveillance Contractor Bug In Ecuador Embassy Fails to Stop Wikileaks
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
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"
Weapons Makers
Failed Watchkeeper Drone To Be Weaponized For Sale To Poland
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
Issues
Uruguay: Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper
Consumerism & Commercialism
U.S. Doctors Associations Cancel Collaborations With Coca-Cola After Protests
Forever 21 Fails to Comply With Federal Sweatshop Investigation
India’s Retail Sector: Ripe for the Picking
Greenwashing the Olympics
Mexico’s Other Crisis: Foreign Banks
Dark Side of the Tourist Boom: Cruise Ship Controversies Cross Borders
University, Inc.
Spinning Media for Government
Tension in Paradise
The Lacandon Jungle's Last Stand Against Corporate Globalization
Corruption
Billionaires & Big Business Line Up To Help U.S. President Elect-Donald Trump
Swiss Bank UBS May Be Suspended From Doing Business In Hong Kong
Six Novartis Executives Charged In Illegal Drug Rebate Scheme In South Korea
General Atomics Funded U.S. Think Tank That Promoted Increased Drone Exports
Panama Papers Leak Reveals Safari Companies In Africa Use Tax Havens
Greece Raids UBS Executive's Home In Effort To Uncover Swiss Tax Evasion
Barclays Traders Jailed In Global Interest Rate Setting Scandal But Not Executives
New Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Credit Suisse Condemned For Secret Military Loans To Mozambique
Zupta Scandal Causes South African Government To Intervene To Save Indian Investor
Environment
Goodhope Asia Accused Of Land Grabbing In West Papua For Palm Oil
Native Tribes Protest Energy Transfer Partners North Dakota Oil Pipeline
Formosa Plastics Admits Vietnam Steel Plant Caused Massive Fish Kill
Malaysian Palm Oil Giant, IOI, Suspended By Industry Body Over Environmental Record
Navajo Diné Fight Uranium Resources Inc. Mining Permits In New Mexico
New Evidence Shows Main Chevron Witness Lied In $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit
Angolan Fishing Community Asks Chevron For Oil Spill Compensation
Music Video Asking Unilever to Clean Up Mercury Waste in India Goes Viral
Shell’s Plans to Drill for Oil in the Arctic Blocked by Greenpeace Climbers
Agrica’s Tanzania Rice Scheme Has Devastated Local Farmers, Say NGOs
Executive Compensation
Hedge Fund Managers Still Making Billions
Daily CEO Pay Now Exceeds U.S. Workers Annual Salary
“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
Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten? Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq
Norilsk Nickel: A Tale of Unbridled Capitalism, Russian Style
An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos
Globalization
EuroZone Profiteers: Ireland
EuroZone Profiteers: Greece
EuroZone Profiteers: Spain
EuroZone Profiteers: Dexia
EuroZone Profiteers: Crédit Agricole
EuroZone Profiteers: French Banking
EuroZone Profiteers: Commerzbank
EuroZone Profiteers: Depfa and Hypo Real Estate
EuroZone Profiteers: Westdeutsche Landesbank
EuroZone Profiteers: German Banking
Health
Coke and McDonalds Host Carnival of Junk Food Marketing At Rio Olympics
Uruguay Defeats Philip Morris In Major Win For Anti-Smoking Advocates
Ovarian Cancer Victims Win Talcum Powder Lawsuits Against Johnson & Johnson
Sun Pharma, India's Biggest Drug Producer, Violated Manufacturing Rules
Nestle Recalls 400 Million Packets of Instant Noodles in India
Tobacco Companies Ordered to Pay C$15.6 Billion to Quebec Smokers
Kazakh Oil Consortium Accused of “Mass Poisoning” of Village School Children
Actavis Sued To Stop Forced Switch To New Alzheimer's Drug
Gilead Sciences Under Investigation for Over Charging for Hepatitis C Pill
Big Pharma Abandons New Tuberculosis Drug Research
Human Rights
Publish, Punish, and Pardon: Nine National Security Changes Obama Should Make Before He Leaves Office
AT&T; Developed Secret Program To Help U.S. Police Mine Client Phone Records
Broadspectrum 'Violating' Human Rights At Australian Offshore Detention Centers
DESA Employees Arrested In Honduras For Murder Of Activist Berta Cáceres
Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
Swedish Paper Manufacturing Giant Blacklisted for Child Labor Practices
Barrick Gold Compensates Rape Victims in Papua New Guinea
Vinci Accused Of Labor Violations on Qatar Construction Contracts
Asylum Seekers Protest Mitie Management of U.K. Detention Center
Bangladeshi Tribals Evicted For Tea Plantation Expansion
Labor
Bangladeshi Government Cracks Down On Garment Workers Sweatshop Wage Protests
Robertson Winery Accused Of Slavery-Like Practices In South Africa
Cyrela, Rio Olympic Construction Contractor, Accused Of Mistreating Workers
East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report
Garment Factories In Burma Often Violate Labor Laws
China Cracks Down On Guangdong Labor Activists
Retailer SportsDirect Accused of Sweatshop Like Conditions in the UK
Australian “Free Range” Chicken Company Alleged to Use Exploited Labor
UNIQLO, Japanese Fast Fashion Label, Accused of Labor Violations
Florida Tomato Pickers Sign Up New Major Retail Chains For Higher Wages
Money & Politics
Billionaires & Big Business Line Up To Help U.S. President Elect-Donald Trump
U.S. Attorneys General Form Secret Alliance To Help Energy Companies
New European Commission Marred By Corporate Conflicts of Interest
U.S. Congress Did Less for Corporate Accountability in 2013
Bumper Year for Corporate Donations Reveals Profit Motives
Agribusiness Buys California Votes
Forgiving Siemens: Unraveling a Tangled Tale of German Corruption in Greece
How to Make A (Foreign) Wall Street Bank Vanish
Citizens United v. America's Citizens
U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors
Privatization
Gilead Avoided $10 Billion In Taxes On Over Priced Hepatitis C Drugs
Sierra Leone Activists Released After Six Weeks Jail For Protesting Socfin
Swedish Companies Accused Of Profiting Off Refugee Housing
Serco Paid Millions Over Budget for West Australia Hospital with No Patients
Rurelec Wins Compensation for Bolivia Nationalization, But Little Profit
Spanish Consortium Threatens to Stop Panama Canal Expansion
Police Attack Palm Oil Protestors in Sierra Leone
U.S. Security Checks Contractor Has Record of Rushing Investigations
Privatization Profiteers from Pinochet’s Chile May Yet Face Prison
Sierra Leone Farmers Evicted for Sugarcane Biofuel Plantations
Regulation
Takata Fined $1 Billion For Hiding Information on Exploding Car Airbags
Eli Lilly Raised U.S. Prices Of Diabetes Drug 700 Percent Over 20 Years
Cairn Energy Demands India Pay $5.6 Billion Or Drop Back Tax Claim
New Violation Tracker Tool Helps Public Track U.S. Corporate Misconduct
Citadel's Private Stock Market Platform Under Investigation
Drugs Tested By GVK Biosciences Banned From European Union
Uruguay Presents Defense Against Philip Morris Tobacco Lawsuit
New European Commission Marred By Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Argentina Loses Court Appeal Against “Vulture” Fund Manager Paul Singer
U.S. Congress Did Less for Corporate Accountability in 2013
Trade Justice
Cargill Flouts Law to Secretly Build Land Bank in Colombia
Global Ambulance Chasers: Lawyers Profit From Suing States for Multinationals
Regulating Ramatex: Authorities Shut Out as Malaysian Investor Threatens Namibian Environment
Lessons of Empire: India, 60 Years After Independence
Trademarking Coffee: Starbucks cuts Ethiopia deal
Barrick's Dirty Secrets: Communities Respond to Gold Mining's Impacts Worldwide
Barrick Gold Mine Transforms Pacific Island
Some Strings Attached: Cotton, Farm subsidies tie up global trade talks
Two World Forums, Two Visions
Robert Zoellick's Free Trade Evangelism
World Financial Institutions
World Bank Agrees to Investigate Labor Conditions at Indian Tea Company
World Bank Slammed for Dinant Loan Linked to Honduran Killings
Bailing out Germany: The Story Behind the European Financial Crisis
Uruguay: Pulp Factions: Uruguay’s Environmentalists v. Big Paper
Playing Chicken: Ghana vs. the IMF
Carbon: Under Kyoto, a Hot Commodity
Two World Forums, Two Visions
Paving the Amazon with Soy
AES Backs Out of Bujagali Dam Project
Busting the Water Cartel
Campaigns
Current Campaigns
Gasoline Crisis in Iraq
Book Review: Thrilling Chronicle of Cons, Fools and a Business World Gone Mad
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
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