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Published by IPS News | By Anil Netto | Friday, December 7, 2007

Food security campaigners are now more concerned than ever that farmers are turning dependent on large multinational corporations (MNCs) for seeds, fertilisers, pesticides and other inputs while also becoming more vulnerable to pressures to produce genetically engineered crops.

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Published by Enviroment News Service | By Lisa J. Wolf | Thursday, December 6, 2007

"Our Land, Our Life," a 74 minute documentary directed by George and Beth Gage, details Carrie and Mary Dann's 30 year struggle to protect their traditional ways and ancestral lands from mining degradation in a battle that went to the U.S. Supreme Court and beyond to the United Nations with no relief as yet from the U.S. government.

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Published by New York Times | By Ginger Thompson and Eric Schmitt | Tuesday, December 4, 2007

The suicide of a top Air Force procurement officer casts a cloud of suspicion, threatening to plunge a service still struggling to emerge from one of its worst scandals into another quagmire.

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Published by IPS News | By Michael Deibert | Monday, December 3, 2007

In addition to funding conflict, cocoa revenues are believed to have been defrauded for enrichment of persons in both the government and rebel camps. Article also mentions the following corporations: Lev-Ci and Cargill.

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Published by New York Times | By Abdul Waheed Wafa | Thursday, November 29, 2007

A NATO airstrike killed 14 laborers working for an Afghan road construction company that had been contracted by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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Published by Special to CorpWatch | By Tim Shorrock | Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A new U.S. intelligence institution will allow government spy agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the country for the first time. Contractors like Boeing, BAE Systems, Harris Corporation, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation are already lining up for possible work.

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Published by New York Times | By Heather Timmons and J. Adam Huggins | Monday, November 26, 2007

Companies responsible for the manufacturing of manholes are criticized over worker conditions in India, where manufacturing takes place.javascript:change_form_block( 'location_trigger' );

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Published by Wall Street Journal | By Benoit Faucon | Thursday, November 22, 2007

Royal Dutch Shell is considering selling interests in two Nigerian offshore oil blocks to China's Cnooc Ltd. as it restructures its business in the troubled region.

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Published by Reuters | By Martha Graybow | Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The law firm that helped win $7.2 billion in settlements for Enron investors is seeking nearly $700 million in legal fees for itself and other attorneys who handled the case, according to court documents.

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