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Boeing is well known for making passenger jets, but in reality, over half of its sales are weapons and military aircraft and submarines, notably to Israel. Boeing GBU-39 and GBU-31 Small Diameter Bombs together with Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits for guided "smart" bombs are routinely used to destroy residential buildings and target civilians; Boeing Harpoon missile systems are used to enforce Israel's illegal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip; while Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, equipped with Boeing Hellfire air-to-ground missiles, are used by the Israeli military for assaults on Gaza. The company has also supplied Russia and Saudi Arabia, helping those countries fight their wars on Ukraine and Yemen respectively.

Two of Boeing’s 737 Max passenger planes crashed in a five-month-period between 2018 and 2019 – one in Indonesia and one in Ethiopia – killing a total of 346 people that were on board. The two crashes have been linked to Boeing software that was installed without informing the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and without proper training for the pilots that flew the planes. The 737 Max was subsequently grounded by multiple countries and the company paid a US$2.5 billion fine for lying to the FAA about the safety of the plane.
 

BP (formerly British Petroleum) is a fossil fuel exploration company that was founded in 1909 to drill for oil in Iran (then known as Persia). It has been responsible for numerous catastrophic accidents around the world such as the death of 13 workers when its Sea Gem oil rig collapsed in the North Sea in 1965; a 2005 explosion at its Texas City refinery that killed 15; and most recently, the death of 11 people on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, that also caused lasting damage to the ocean environment.

British American Tobacco is a tobacco company whose roots stretch back to tobacco sales in 1786. It is now the largest tobacco company in the world. Despite the fact that the company's own internal research showed that tobacco causes cancer, the company continued to deny this fact as recently as the 1980s. Documents leaked from Brown & Williamson (the U.S. subsidiary of British American Tobacco) in 1994 conclusively exposed “the three big lies” of the tobacco industry that 'cigarettes don’t cause cancer, nicotine is not addictive and we don’t market to kids.' Later Jeffrey Wigand, a former research executive at Brown & Williamson, blew the whistle on how the company had added chemicals like ammonia to increase the effect of nicotine in cigarettes.

Founded in 1812, British Gas was the first public utility company in the world until the Thatcher administration privatized it in 1986. The company is still in the business of selling fossil fuel derived gas to consumers, but through clever marketing techniques like carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates, it can make the claim to be fossil fuel free. It has been accused of greenwashing on numerous occasions, in one case being forced to withdraw an advertisement claiming to offer the “greenest domestic energy tariff”, and in another being fined by the UK’s energy watchdog Ofgem for failing to meet energy efficiency targets in time.