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Archive for the Month of February, 2006.
Viewing Corporatism NEWS articles 1 through 18 of 18.


February 1, 2006

Oil execs refuse to testify at Senate hearing - Officials from six major oil companies have refused to testify this week at a Senate hearing looking into whether oil industry mergers in recent years have made gasoline more expensive at the pump.
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February 2, 2006

Big Oil screws America into the ground - They’re dancing in the halls at ExxonMobil, but quietly. See, they’ve just set the earnings record for American companies, raking in $36 billion in annual income, even more than Wal-Mart, which makes ExxonMobil number one.
(2818 views)


February 3, 2006

Rainforest Eden faces death by chainsaw - to make margarine - A £4.2 billion plan proposed by a Chinese bank and backed by Jakarta politicians would clear 1.8 million hectares of this wilderness over the next six years to grow oil palms to feed the world’s growing appetite for margarine, ice-cream, biscuits and biodiesel fuel.
(2378 views)


February 4, 2006

Bush's Energy Escapades - The Most Obscene Profits in American History
(2086 views)


February 7, 2006

Exposed: the secret corporate funding behind health research - Academics and the media have failed dismally to ask the crucial question of scientists' claims: who is paying you?
(1946 views)

The Problem with Mercury - A History of Regulatory Capitulation to the Chemical Industry
(1906 views)

BP annual profit hits record high 22.34 billion dollars - British energy giant BP unveiled a near 31-percent rise in annual net profit owing to rocketing oil prices...
(3352 views)


February 9, 2006

State subsidy to Wal-Mart employees put at $12 million - The total was nearly double that amount if costs to federal taxpayers are included.
(2139 views)


February 10, 2006

Rough trade: Diamond industry still funding bloody conflicts in Africa - The global diamond trade is continuing to fund vicious civil wars in countries such as Ivory Coast and Liberia, despite international efforts to blacklist stones from regions at war.
(2156 views)


February 12, 2006

$521,000: The average pay of Goldman Sachs employees ­ and that includes secretaries - They call it Goldmine Sachs. And well they might. Because the Wall Street giant has become the first major investment bank to see its average salary top half a million dollars.
(2003 views)


February 17, 2006

African bio-resources "exploited by West" - Dozens of Western multinationals have made millions of pounds in profits from exploiting African bio-resources taken from some of the poorest nations on earth, with not a penny offered in return.
(1973 views)


February 21, 2006

Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem - Ports are essential pieces of the infrastructure of the United States, and they are best run by public authorities that are accountable to elected officials and the people those officials represent.
(2017 views)

Port Deal: Neoliberal Business as Usual - ...big transnational corporate fish eating smaller transnational corporate fish, nothing more than business as usual, a neoliberal feeding frenzy, in this instance controlled by the UAE royal family.
(2232 views)


February 22, 2006

A handout for oil companies - Buried in the Bush budget...
(3637 views)


February 23, 2006

Finger-Lickin' Bad - Combining low wages with high pollution, industrial-scale poultry producers are ravaging the rural South.
(4469 views)

It's the Corporation, Stupid - We have an administration that is absolutely wedded to corporate interests, both American and global. It honestly believes that "free trade" is more important than the environment and more important than the people. It has repeatedly demonstrated it is willing to let both go in order to foster free trade.
(3476 views)


February 25, 2006

Bush administration shields corporations from safety rules, lawsuits - Federal agencies under the Bush administration are systematically gutting state regulations aimed at safeguarding the public and consumers from corporate wrongdoing, while imposing new rules to protect private industry from civil lawsuits...
(3308 views)


February 27, 2006

Fat Tuesday for Disaster Profiteers - As a depleted population struggled to celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans, new reports emerged about corporate cronyism and disaster profiteering under the Bush Administration.
(3252 views)


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