CorpWatch
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CorpWatch (formerly: TRAC Transnational Resource & Action Center) is a research group based in Oakland, California, USA. The group works to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations. The group is notable for its campaigns against Nike sweatshops, private military contractors, war and disaster profiteering, the World Trade Organization, and the UN Global Compact. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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CorpWatch:Citizens United v. America's Citizens: A Voter's Guide
A poll conducted by SurveyUSA, an independent research firm, found that a majority of voters think they have a right to know who is paying for the explosion of anonymous ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon
Given our economic crisis, the estimated trillion dollars we spend each year on the military and its weaponry is simply unsustainable. Even if present fiscal constraints no ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Carlyle Group May Buy Major CIA Contractor: Booz Allen Hamilton
() The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest private equity funds, may soon acquire the $2 billion government contracting business of consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, ...Posted by Melva Hackney -
The New Business Watergate: Prosecution of International Corporate Bribery is on the Rise
() The Volcker investigation, the OECD convention, the Sarbanes-Oxley law and other factors together breathed new life into FCPA enforcement. Stricter internal controls mandated ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up
() When Cambone's tenure at the Pentagon drew to a close, shortly after the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld in late 2006, the future course of defense spending had already been ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
THAILAND: Green Groups Will Take GM Crops Issue To Court
() Thai environmentalists are banking on the country's courts to overturn a decision by the military-appointed government to allow field trials of genetically modified (GM) ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Many rescued child laborers in India soon back at another dismal job
() A group of child laborers recently rescued from a dank factory where they threaded sequins onto shirts to be sold by the San Francisco retail giant Gap Inc. finally went home ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
CHILE: Copper Boom - Cui Bono?
() Caputo complained that private mining companies made profits of nearly 20 billion dollars in 2006, which according to his calculations were equivalent to 17 percent of the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
U.S. high court declines to review Can. company pollution ruling
() "As the case now stands, the courts have ruled that the U.S. has jurisdiction over Teck Cominco under the United States' Superfund law for the pollution it created in the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Domestic Spying, Inc.
() ... a proposal being reviewed by Congress, [establishes] a National Applications Office (NAO) to coordinate how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and domestic law ...Posted by Beth Wellington
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