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Rendon Group Wins Hearts and Minds in Business, Politics and War

The Rendon Group is a consulting firm whose services range from creating "a favorable environment before privatization begins" to helping justify war. Rick Rendon, a founding partner talks to CorpWatch about his latest project, "Empowering Peace."

Another round of international talks on curbing global climate change began Wednesday in India, a country that sees the United States and the developed world as being part of the problem rather than the solution to global warming.

Written by CorpWatch's founder Joshua Karliner, and published by Sierra Club Books in 1997, The Corporate Planet: Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalization created a foundation from which the CorpWatch website emerged and evolved.

Since then, the book has been excerpted by various publications ranging from The Washington Post to Earth Island Journal.

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Here is the table of contents for The Corporate Planet by Joshua Karliner.

Throughout the book Corporate Planet> you will also find cutting edge information and commentary by leading analysts and advocacy organizations on various pressing issues. There are also a series of fact sheets, leaked corporate documents and profiles of both the European Union and Japan Inc.. All of this comes together to begin to paint a picture of the current state of the Corporate Planet.

Our interactive guide takes you through the steps of researching a corporation on the Internet - how to find information about a corporation's business strategy and operations, financial status, and environmental and social record.

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As India prepares for the next round of international climate change negotiations, CorpWatch is co-organizing a Climate Justice Summit to demand a solution from a labor, human rights and environmental justice perspective.

Here are some tips to locate information on corporate welfare and the impact of the corporate agenda on public policy.

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