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Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal
Moushumi Basu
March 2nd, 2010
In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. ?We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land,” the villagers cry. “The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don’t want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back.?
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DynCorp Oversight in Afghanistan Faulted
Pratap Chatterjee
February 26th, 2010
Afghan police are widely considered corrupt and unable to shoot straight; they die at twice the rate of Afghan soldiers and NATO troops despite $7 billion spent on training and salaries in the last eight years. A new high-level report says that the State Department’s contract with DynCorp is at fault.
DynCorp mentor watches Afghan National Police practice riot control tactics at the Kabul Central Training Center. Photo by Ronald Nobu Sakamoto
Construction
Asia Inhales While the West Bans the Deadly Carcinogen
Melody Kemp
February 16th, 2010
Asbestos, a known carcinogen, causes 100,000 occupational deaths per year, according to Medical News Today. Although it is banned in much of the world, asbestos is a common and dangerous building block in much of Asia?s development boom and its export remains both legal and profitable. Asbestos merchants, disputing World Health Organization (WHO) data and overwhelming scientific evidence, still claim that it is safe to use.
Seoul University?s Dr Domyung Paek addresses the ANROAV meeting Phnom Penh 2009.
War & Disaster Profiteering
Agility Attempts to Vault Fraud Charges
Pratap Chatterjee
February 1st, 2010
Agility, a Kuwait-based multi-billion dollar logistics company spawned by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is facing criminal charges for over-billing the U.S. taxpayer on more than $8.5 billion worth of food supply contracts in the Iraq war zone. If the lawsuit, scheduled for February 8, is successful, the company could owe the U.S. government as much as $1 billion.
Photo by Pratap Chatterjee
Money & Politics
Shed a Tear for Our Democracy
Robert Weissman
January 22nd, 2010
Yesterday, in the case Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence election outcomes.
Money from Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and the rest of the Fortune 500 is already corroding the policy making process. Now, the Supreme Court tells these corporate giants that they have a constitutional right to trample our democracy.
Manufacturing
Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
Kent Paterson
January 6th, 2010
In the globalized electronics production chain, Mexico serves as the main assembler of Asian-produced components for electronics exported to the United States. Mexico’s labor force is increasingly supplied by temporary workers employed through domestic and transnational corporations like Manpower.
El Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral (CEREAL)
Energy
The Enbridge Oil Sands Gamble
Andrew Nikiforuk
December 14th, 2009
Patrick Daniel, the CEO of Enbridge Inc, is bullish about the future of unconventional oil from Canada?s massive tar sand deposits. His company not only operates North America?s longest crude oil and liquid pipelines, but transports 12 percent of the oil that the U.S. imports daily. Canada?s bitumen, or dirty crude, lies under a forest area the size of England and is arguably the world?s last remaining giant oil field.
Cartoon by Khalil Bendib
Chemicals
Bhopal: Generations of Poison
Nityanand Jayaraman
December 2nd, 2009
On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India leaked poisonous methyl iso cyanate into its densely populated neighborhood, killing 8,000 people in the immediate aftermath. 25 years later, Dow Chemical (which purchased Union Carbide in 2001) still refuses to clean up the site. But a new generation of Bhopal survivors is taking on the fight.
Photo by Sanjay ‘KunKun’ Varma
Globalization
CorpWatch Announces Version 2.0 of the CrocTail Corporate Subsidiaries Database and Open API
November 24th, 2009
Developed with support from the Sunlight Foundation, CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand corporations publicly traded in the U.S. and their domestic and foreign subsidiaries. In this new version, users can click on different years and see how subsidiary relationships for a company have changed over time.
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