Corporate Crime

The Evilness of Power

pirate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:47 -0400

An examination of the effects of power and hierarchy on individuals, society and the world at large NOTE: I forgot to mention that the Indian woman speaking in the 2nd half is Arundhati Roy, author of "The God of Small Things"

BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:08:14 -0400

BLACKWATER MAKES COMEBACK
More tax money for Murder Inc.

Thomas Riggins

This news, as reported on the front page of the NYT for 5-10-08, should not be a big surprise. This one article encapsulates the whole insanity of Bush's adventure in Iraq. It also exposes the sharade of a "sovereign" Iraqi government. We all know about the infamous Blackwater mercenaries, hired killers used by the US government to protect the State Department workers and others in Iraqi and to also spread death and terror to Iraqis who get in their way. If any group should be on the government's list of terrorist organizations it is Blackwater, Inc. read more »

Food prices soaring worldwide

pirate — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:14:08 -0400

By KATHERINE CORCORAN, Associated Press Mar 24, 2008

MEXICO CITY - If you're seeing your grocery bill go up, you're not alone. read more »

No G8 Japan 2008 - Lake Toya promo

pirate — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:28:36 -0500

Each year, Leaders of the Group of Eight countries - Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United States and Canada - meet to decide policy for the rest of the world. They meet behind closed doors, behind walls of concrete and steel, with armies to protect them from their own people.In July of 2008 they will meet again at the Windsor Hotel resort on Lake Toya, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.

We will be there to stop them. read more »

Getting a Grip - Plastic Poison

rick — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:59 -0500

by Michael I. Niman

Remember when plastic used to break? You know, really break, as in shatter. Now it kind of bounces. The difference is that much of our modern plastic is vitamin-fortified with additives called phthalates. Phthalates protect plastic by making it more malleable, but a growing number of scientific studies suggest that while protecting plastic, certain phthalates are poisoning people. More specifically, they are carcinogens, they’re potentially toxic to our livers and kidneys, and juvenile exposure in males may lower lifelong testosterone levels, physiologically feminizing men while lowering their sperm counts. But hey, that’s some fine plastic we’ve got there. read more »

Greenpeace protest against carbon dioxide emissions – halfway up a power plant’s smokestack

pirate — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:58:57 -0500

[07-12-2007] By Rosie Johnston

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On Thursday, 11 members of the environmental organisation Greenpeace set up camp halfway up one of the chimneys at the Prunerov power plant in northern Bohemia. read more »

shawl society's deb abrahamson speaks out about uranium mining on tribal lands in washington state

rick — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:22:30 -0500

"Many of the women who contracted cancer were the mothers, the aunties, and the sisters. They cleaned the clothes for their sons, brothers, and husbands who went to work in the mines. A lot of the time people were doing double shifts at the mine sites, so people would come home after 16 hours of work and literally take their coats off and fall asleep, not change their clothing or anything."
– Deb Abrahamson

Deb Abrahamson, SHAWL Society
(Sovereignty, Health, Air, Water and Land) read more »

Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

rick — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:13:20 -0400

I found this on Project Censored's website. It's over two years old but seems timely and still underreported:

Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005
Title: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team”
Author: Jason Leopold

Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson
Student Researchers: Kristine Medeiros and Pla Herr read more »

NAOMI KLEIN ON "DISASTER CAPITALISM"

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:49:28 -0400

By Thomas Riggins

This article is a review of Naomi Klein’s important article in the October 2007 issue of Harper’s Magazine (“Disaster Capitalism: The new economy of catastrophe”) based on her new book, The Shock Doctrine.

A major theme in this article is the analogy between the effects of war and of “natural” disasters on people and the environment. The contrast between the Green Zone in Iraq (a safe haven) and the Red Zone (the rest of Iraq) is analogized with the aftermath of Katrina and the difference between the areas of New Orleans inhabited by the rich (reconstructed and prospering) and the poor (neglected and festering). read more »

Hundreds of students protest Halliburton recruiters at UW-Madison

pirate — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:08:01 -0400

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Sept 21, 2007

MADISON, Wis. — Students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to disrupt Halliburton Co.'s attempt to recruit at a campus job fair.

Protesters angrily accused the company of profiting from the war in Iraq and sat in front of the company's booth to discourage students from meeting with its representatives.

They summoned the memory of a 1967 protest against recruiters for Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm used in Vietnam. A peaceful sit-in that ended in a bloody confrontation between students and club-wielding police officers galvanized the anti-war movement. read more »