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Archive for the Month of January, 2006.
Viewing Corporatism NEWS articles 1 through 27 of 27.
- The university, which has 50,000 students on three campuses, on Thursday became the 10th college to stop selling Coca-Cola products because of concerns arising from accusations about the company's treatment of workers in bottling plants in Colombia and environmental problems in India. - Rumsfeld's lie that it was an employee and not a company problem highlighted by recent developments.
- With help from the U.S. Justice Department and state prosecutors, corporations are getting away with serious crimes by using their executives as cannon fodder...
- This is what happens when you deregulate industry. People die. This is what happens when you let companies act as their own watchdogs. People die.
- What do you get when you combine John Ashcroft, Israel, the South Korean military and Boeing? A troubling weapons deal.
- For Monsanto, Dow and Novartis, a decent shot at gaining control over much of the world's food supply is now blowing on the wind and there's no turning back. - Why shouldn't we be surprised? Because over the last 25 years, clinical research has been largely privatized.
- Like many of the nation's resources under this administration, it is being privatized and placed into corporate hands, a little further from public view.
- ...the joint state-federal investigation would not focus on the well-documented safety violations at the mine or why state and federal regulators allowed it to remain open. Instead...the probe would concentrate on the communications failure that led miners’ families to believe the men had been rescued alive.
- In what amounts to a massive misappropriation of social wealth, Wall Street’s major investment banks and trading firms are handing out $21.5 billion in year-end bonuses for 2005.
- ...the most crucial step to prevent tragedies like Sago has little to do with the specifics of mining -- it involves changing the cost-benefit analysis made by corporate executives in workplace safety decisions.
- Carlyle is now expected to make an eightfold return on its 34 per cent stake when 49 per cent of Qinetiq is floated next month, while executive chairman John Chisholm stands to see his £129,000 investment grow to around £23m.
- ...now he is visiting disease and death on tens of millions of our elderly and ill with a botched Medicare/Medicaid drug plan that has plunged the nation's pharmacies into total chaos while driving the states even closer to bankruptcy. As you read this, millions of Americans are without medications that may be life-sustaining because of what Bush has done to "improve" their pharmaceutical plan. - In the midst of an Amazonian oil boom, classified documents reveal deep links between oil companies and Ecuador's military.
- If Wal-Mart were a state, it would rank 39th in population, right behind Nebraska -- and that doesn't include the dependents of the company's 1.7 million employees.
- The arrogance displayed by today’s employers rivals that of their “robber baron” predecessors more than a century ago--when cutthroat capitalists fought ruthlessly against every attempt by workers to raise safety standards and wages, or to form unions.
- So who buys tomatoes from a man convicted of human enslavement? The answer seems to lie beneath the Golden Arches. - The Cochabamba water revolt – which began exactly six years ago this month – will end this morning when Bechtel, one of the world’s most powerful corporations, formally abandons its legal effort to take $50 million from the Bolivian people. Bechtel made that demand before a secretive trade court operated by the World Bank, the same institution that coerced Bolivia to privatize the water to begin with.
- Actually the "rest of us" wouldn't need to "keep their bosses honest" if there were no bosses, in particular bosses with interests different from the workers. The capitalist forces which underly the continuing war drive are precisely the same ones which underly the "need" to cut costs in the mines, maximizing profits.
- Shocking? - not really - especially considering how dispensation of various toxins to people has been happening for quite some time in the U.S. - The arms trade makes big money for the richest nations while fuelling conflict across the world.
- Developed by multinational agribusinesses and the U.S. government, Terminator has the effect of preventing farmers from saving or replanting seeds from one growing season to the next. - Within the confines of hidden, top-secret installations around the globe, tests on human subjects -- from torture to physiological degradation -- occurs in the name of National Security, medical research, or some new and arcane acronym just coined by the Department of Homeland Terror and its corporate cohorts. - We are well down the road of sacrificing our country to a flaccid and corrupt government in bed with profit-obsessed, amoral corporations.
- Oilfield services conglomerate Halliburton Co. swung to a profit in its fourth quarter on robust sales and increased rig activity, and called last year the best in its 86-year history.
- Chevron Fourth-Quarter Earnings Rise 20 Percent to Company Record of $4.14 Billion
- Surging profits topped off a record year for Exxon
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