Recently added articles from Multinational Monitor:
Letters.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: While I wish our leaders the best in getting our credit industry back on track, I am worried and outraged. On top of despising the billions of dollars worth of bonuses paid out by failed institutions which were bailed out by taxpayer money, I am angry that our ...
It's class warfare: the moneyed class takes it to the street.(LETTERS)(Cartoon)
May 01, 2009; ... ANGRY BANKERS START PARADING AROUND WITH GIANT PAPIER-MACHE PUPPETS HEY HEY ... HO HO! REGULATION'S GOT TO GO!! CREDIT CARD CEOs BURN BARRICADES MADE WITH CREDIT CARDS THEY CAN NO LONGER GIVE TO ...
Merck's Doctor hit list.(BEHIND THE LINES)(Merck & Company Inc.)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... DRUG COMPANY MERCK circulated a list of doctors that needed to be "neutralized" because they had criticized the drug Vioxx, court documents revealed in April. Discovery for a class action lawsuit brought in Australia against the pharmaceutical giant alleging Vioxx caused heart attacks ...
Dangerous breaths.(BEHIND THE LINES)(American Lung Association's 'State of the Air' report)
May 01, 2009; ... THE POLLUTION that is currently endangering the environment is also endangering public health, according to an April report by the American Lung Association. Six in 10 people in the United States live in areas where air pollution threatens lives, according to the Association's 10th annual ...
No legal fees for Chevron.(BEHIND THE LINES)
May 01, 2009; ... A FEDERAL JUDGE in April denied Chevron's request to e reimbursed nearly $500,000 from the group of Nigerian villagers who recently lost their human rights case against the oil behemoth. Chevron argued the villagers should pay it's legal fees associated with a lawsuit that alleged the ...