Chevron Oil has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil rigs. http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Worldview/
Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver every summer. http://bensonandhedges.org/
A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet (particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites. http://www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk/
Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute. http://www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html
A leaked document shows Sony has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting their pressure to reduce toxic waste in the manufacturing of electronics. http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html
10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site. http://www.bosleymedicalviolations.com
Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits. http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html
Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor] http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html
States that AOL paid a $3.5 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the government financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html
Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. http://multinationalmonitor.org/
A high school cheerleader hits upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports games, with labels bearing her school logo. But her plan runs into trouble when Pepsi gets wind of it. With news and reader comments. http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/11/04/15534812
Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly. http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/marburg.htm
Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it. http://www.endpredatorylending.org/
National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses. http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/chinareport/table_of_contents.shtml
The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan. http://mathaba.net/sudan/bloodoil.htm
Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era subsidiaries, and suspicious name change. http://www.insurance-alert.net/
Links to protest, news, and consumer educational sites about the USA mutual, bank, insurance, and annuities conglomerate. http://moviereview.net/state/
Tells about the practices of the Who's Who Historical Society, a company of Gibraltar Publishing: What they promise, how they recruit members, what the results of membership are and how they try to prevent members from cancelling their membership. http://www.internationalwhoswho.de/
Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray. http://www.stopwmx.org/
Site by a group of former Apple Computer Authorized Resellers suing the company for fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition and false advertising. http://www.tellonapple.org
Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites. http://www.homedepotsucks.com/
Alleges that AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and US Federal Judge James M. Ideman conspired to murder filmmaker Gyorgy Fodor. Sign a petition to President Bush. Place a bet to win a bribe. [Note: Some disturbing photos.] http://www.uspresident.net/
Campaign to tell Ford Motor Company to manufacturing the most fuel-inefficient cars in America and stop fueling America's oil addiction and global warming. http://www.jumpstartford.com/home/