here are some excellent links to corporatewatch dog sites
axis of
corporate evil multinational
monitor corpwatch
greenpeace
dyncorp-sucks.com
McSpotlight.org
What
Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look
at the Carlyle Group--June 23, 2003
Water:
Emergency at Evian --May 31, 2003
How
Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
April 26, 2002
Bullying people from your town to China
Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to
matching the power that the 500 biggest corporations have amassed over us. The
clout of all 535 members of Congress is nothing compared to the individual and
collective power of these predatory behemoths that now roam the globe, working
their will over all competing interests. more
Nike
v. Kasky: Corporations Are Not Persons--June 4, 2003 The case of
Nike v. Kasky, currently before the Supreme Court, involves a fundamental
question about corporations that unfortunately has not been raised by either the
parties in the case or the media...Not addressed in the arguments before the
Court, but underlying them nonetheless is an invisible beast: the idea that
corporations are people. more
Enron
Used U.S. Government to Bully Developing Nations --May 31, 2003
WASHINGTON - Defunct energy giant Enron used the U.S. government to coerce the
World Bank and poor nations to grant concessions and resolve its investment
problems, according to documents and correspondence released by the Treasury
Department. ; more...
Waxman:
Halliburton Profits From All Aspects of Iraq War--May 29, 2003 Editor's
Note | Rep. Waxman's letter to the office of the Army Secretary raises a number
of disturbing issues. It appears that Halliburton subsidiary, Kellog Brown &
Root, was given nearly $500 million in government contracts for the Iraq war
without said contracts being proffered to other companies in a standard bidding
process. Given Halliburton's close ties to Vice President Cheney, the potential
impropriety of this action is manifest. more
