http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15472 <div class="text blurb">In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, $285 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars have flowed into a Black & Veatch-built power plant outside Tarakhil village. But, far from the public relations coup the project was intended to supply, the plant has run into problems with planning, cost over-runs and alleged corruption.</div> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15472 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15471 <div class="text blurb">In a secluded valley a few miles from Kabul's international airport, $285 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars have flowed into a Black & Veatch-built power plant outside Tarakhil village. But, far from the public relations coup the project was intended to supply, the plant has run into problems with planning, cost over-runs and alleged corruption.</div> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15471 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15470 <div class="text blurb">Among the dozens of businesses with lucrative Afghan and U.S. taxpayer-financed reconstruction deals are two extremely well connected companies -- Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid -- that helped to swell the election coffers of President Hamid Karzai as well as the family business of his running mate, the country's new vice president, warlord Mohammed Qasim Fahim. </div> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15470 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15473 <div class="text blurb">Retired retail executive Richard Goldman was astonished when he heard about the $27 billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador. SO he has created a nonprofit group, Ethos Alliance, that will use social-networking tools to spread word of the case and put pressure on Chevron.</div> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15473 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15469 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15469 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15468 <div class="text blurb">CorpWatch joins with Tim Shorrock today, the first journalist to blow the whistle on the privatization of U.S. intelligence, in releasing Spies for Hire.org, a groundbreaking database focusing on the dozens of corporations that provide classified intelligence services to the United States government.</div> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15468 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15466 <div class="text blurb">The world's carbon trading markets growing complexity threatens another "sub-prime" style financial crisis that could again destabilise the global economy, campaigners warn. In a new report, Friends of the Earth says that to date "cap and trade" carbon markets have done little to reduce emissions but have been plagued by inefficiency and corruption.</div> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15466 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15465 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15465 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15467 <div class="text blurb">While it doesn’t sound (and need not be) nefarious, activist groups worldwide like the Rainforest Action Network argue that the production of palm oil is currently harming rain forests in Southeast Asia, orangutans, and the environment.</div> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15467 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15464 <div class="text blurb">A French court slapped jail terms Tuesday on the main players in a network that smuggled arms to war-torn Angola and included an ex-minister and the son of the late president Francois Mitterrand.</div> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15464 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15463 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15463 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15462 <div class="text blurb">British oil trader Trafigura has offered to settle a court case brought by 31,000 Africans who say that they were injured in the largest personal injuries class action mounted in an English court. The action resulted from the dumping of 400 tonnes of waste in the Ivory Coast by an oil tanker, the Probo Koala, in 2006 — one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history. </div> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15462 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15461 <div class="text blurb">British oil trader Trafigura has offered to settle a court case brought by 31,000 Africans who say that they were injured in the largest personal injuries class action mounted in an English court. The action resulted from the dumping of 400 tonnes of waste in the Ivory Coast by an oil tanker, the Probo Koala, in 2006 — one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history. </div> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15461 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15460 <div class="text blurb">The French government has demanded answers from a nuclear research facility after nearly triple the registered amount of plutonium was discovered there during its dismantling this summer.</div> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15460 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15459 <div class="text blurb">The French government has demanded answers from a nuclear research facility after nearly triple the registered amount of plutonium was discovered there during its dismantling this summer.</div> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15459