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=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=15450 <div class="text blurb">In Eastern India's Jharkand State, tensions are mounting between Indigenous tribal communities and the Uranium Corporation of India Limited, or UCIL. Heavy security at a May public hearing in Jadugoda prevented many local activists and villagers from entering. But outside the hearing, activists from the Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation (JOAR) argued their case for protecting their health and the environment from horrific impacts of radioactive contaminated waste resulting from uranium mining.</div> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15450 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15423 <div class="text blurb">Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel supplies over 2,000 translators to the Pentagon in Afghanistan, who play a critical role in protecting local and military lives. These interpreters are a key communications link. But if they are wounded or killed, they are often left to fend for themselves. This special features video of CorpWatch interviews with three Afghan whistleblowers, recorded in country in April. Click through to hear their story.</div> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15423 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15415 <div class="text blurb">Near the town of La Jagua, overlooking the Magdalena River, the landscape is dotted with concrete markers declaring the land, river, and everything else a “public utility” that Colombia has given to the energy company Emgesa as part of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project. A construction permit was granted in May, with the dam scheduled for full operation by 2014.</div> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15415 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15386 <div class="text blurb">In early May, the Obama administration announced plans to eliminate the advantages that multinationals have over domestic corporations as to the tax treatment of reinvested profits. K Street corporate lobbyists haven’t squealed so loudly since they lost their three martini lunches. The uproar draws attention away from the fact that U.S. multinationals enjoy an effective tax rate of just 2.4 percent on billions of dollars in foreign active earnings.</div> Mon, 15 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15386 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15381 <div class="text blurb">CorpWatch, with support from the Sunlight Foundation, announces release of the CrocTail application and open CorpWatch API. CrocTail provides an interface for browsing information about U.S. publicly traded corporations and their many foreign and domestic subsidiaries. CrocTail also serves as a demonstration of the features and data available through the CorpWatch API.</div> Mon, 08 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15381 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15372 <div class="text blurb">At Halliburton's recent annual shareholders meeting in Houston, all was remarkably staid as the company celebrated its $4 billion in 2008 operating profits, a striking 22% return at a time when many companies are announcing record losses. Just three months ago, however, Halliburton didn't hesitate to pay $382 million in fines to the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the settlement of a controversial KBR gas project in Nigeria in which the company admitted to paying a $180 million bribe to government officials.</div> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15372 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15358 <div class="text blurb">Chevron's 2008 annual report is a glossy celebration of the company's most profitable year in its history. What Chevron's annual report does not tell its shareholders is the true cost paid for those financial returns, or the global movement gaining voice and strength against the company's abuses. This jointly-produced report documents negative impacts of Chevron's operations around the globe, in stark contrast to the message sent by the company's ubiquitous "Human Energy" advertising campaign.</div> Tue, 26 May 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15358 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15356 <div class="text blurb">The worldwide financial crisis is hitting people in the Global South with particular venom, and disaster profiteering is alive and well. Take Mexico. While entities like Citigroup-owned Banamex get away with charging Mexican credit account-holders usurious interest rates of up to 100 percent, Banamex itself turned nearly $1 billion in profits in 2008.</div> Fri, 15 May 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15356