Multinational Monitor back issues from January 2005:
Letters to the editor.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2005; ... To the editor: Regarding "The 10 Worst Corporations of 2004:" What about Microsoft? What about Sony and Walt Disney? Does it matter that they have engaged in predatory practices, but continue to use their monopoly to push so called "digital ...
Baddies and falsies.(Behind The Lines)
Jan 01, 2005 ... JANUARY WAS AWARDS SEASON for bad-acting corporations. On the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, the Berne Declaration and Pro Natura presented the first "Public Eye Awards" for irresponsible companies. The laureates of the "Public Eve Awards" ...
South African nuke delay.(Behind The Lines)(Earthlife Africa)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2005 ... A SOUTH AFRICAN COURT IN JANUARY DEALT A BLOW to the country's state-owned utility's effort to construct a pebble-bed nuclear plant. The Cape Town High Court decided in favor of the environmental group Earthlife Africa, which had challenged the way in which the environment ...
Kraft caves.(Behind The Lines)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2005 ... RESPONDING TO MOUNTING PUBLIC CONCERN about childhood obesity, and junk food marketing, Kraft announced in January that it will stop advertising its least healthy foods to children under the age of 12. The company announced a phase out of advertising to kids of products that do ...
Reflections on 25 years.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2005 ... IT'S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE MULTINATIONAL MONITOR started regular publication in 1980 (we published a pilot issue in 1978). Ralph Nader and a small band of activist-reporters recognized that corporate power was undergoing a transformation, mutating into something more fundamentally global in ...
Philippines to be drilled.(The Front)
Jan 01, 2005 ... THE PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT in December decided that the country's Mining Act is constitutional--giving the go-ahead for an expected surge in foreign investment in mining. The decision completely reverses a prior ruling by the Court in January 2004 that said foreign-led mining is ...
Nuke power deal put to rest.(The Front)(Brazil, Germany)
Jan 01, 2005; ... THE BRAZILIAN AND GERMAN governments agreed in November to discard a nuclear cooperation accord and replace it with a broader umbrella agreement on sustainable energy cooperation. Following long discussions between the German government and parliament, the German government ...
Summers captures Lawrence Summers award.(The Front)(Lawrence Summers)
Jan 01, 2005 ... THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY LAWRENCE SUMMERS MEMORIAL AWARD * goes to ... Lawrence Summers. Now president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers in January burst on the front pages of U.S. newspapers with controversial remarks about women in the sciences and engineering. But initial ...
Don't mourn, organize: big business follows Joe Hill's entreaty to U.S. political dominance.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, a corporate political juggernaut has rolled over citizen interests the world over. It was not always so. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was Big Business that was on the defensive. In the United States, a low-unemployment economy increased workers' ...
Wall Street ascendant.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... THIS MAGAZINE WAS BORN during the early battles of the Shareholder Revolution, which would transform the financial markets from being the playground of professionals and a handful of amateurs into the center of modern economic life. Now it all seems so normal that it's easy to forget that ...
Slow motion coup d'etat: global trade agreements and the displacement of democracy.(25 Years of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... IN THE 1980s, THE SAME IDEOLOGICAL and business interests behind the Thatcher and Reagan "revolutions" opened a second front in their campaign to create a world in which the role of government would be shrunk and the fulfillment of basic human rights and needs would be left to the mercies ...
Every nook and cranny: the dangerous spread of commercialized culture.(25 Years of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... IN DECEMBER, MANY PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. paused to absorb the meaning in the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, at the White House Ellipse. At that event, President George W. Bush reflected that the "love and gifts" of Christmas were "signs and symbols of even a greater love and ...
Profits of war: the fruits of the permanent military-industrial complex.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... U.S. WEAPONS CONTRACTORS have had their ups and downs over the past 25 years, but they have done far better than they should have. They have cashed in by pursuing a few simple strategies: 1) exaggerating the threats faced by the United States; 2) marketing their weapons systems as the ...
Wal-Mart: rise of the Goliath.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... BACK IN 1980, when Multinational Monitor was founded, Wal-Mart operated in only 11 states, with fewer than 300 stores and just over 21,000 employees. The company had no stores overseas. Its annual sales were $1 billion. Today, Wal-Mart is a Goliath of previously unimaginable ...
Monster banks: the political and economic costs of banking and financial consolidation.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... COMMERCIAL BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES have been on a wild ride over the last 25 years. They have seen record profits, vastly expanded powers and a new post-Depression record for bank failures. Today the industry is still in the midst of a massive concentration of financial resources. ...
Grand theft: the conglomeratization of media and the degradation of culture.(25 Years Of Monitoring The Multinationals)
Jan 01, 2005; ... FOR 25 YEARS, A HANDFUL OF LARGE CORPORATIONS that specialize in every mass medium of any consequence has dominated what the majority of people in the United States see about the world beyond their personal experience. These giant media firms, unlike any in the past, thanks to the ...
Do we not bleed? South American flower workers and the struggle for justice: an interview with Olga Tutillo and Ricardo Zamudio.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2005 ... Olga Tutillo is secretary general of Rosas del Ecuador, a flower workers union in Ecuador. She has worked at flower plantations for 22 years. She is 38 years old and has five children. Ricardo Zamudio is president of Cactus, a Colombian organization that conducts research on ...
Riggs pleas on Pinochet.(Names In The News)(Riggs Bank, Augusto Pinochet)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Riggs Bank pled guilty in January to a federal criminal violation of the Bank Secrecy Act for failure to report accurately suspicious monetary transactions associated with bank accounts owned and controlled by Augusto Pinochet of Chile and by the government of Equatorial Guinea. ...
OSHA workers endangered.(Names In The News)(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2005; ... The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is finding that a significant percentage of its inspectors have become sensitized by exposure to beryllium, an extremely toxic metal that can cause an often-fatal lung disease, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. ...
Politicized science.(Names In The News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Political intervention to alter scientific results has become pervasive within the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) but is particularly rife in Florida, according to a survey of its scientists by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Union of Concerned ...
Organizations.(Resources)
Jan 01, 2005 ... Center for Responsive Politics 1101 14th Street, NW, Suite 1030 Washington, DC 20005 E-mail: info@crp.org www.opensecrets.org Center for Public Integrity 910 17th Street, NW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20006 ...
Publications.(Resources)(Bibliography)
Jan 01, 2005 ... On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2005 After the New Economy By Doug Henwood New York: New Press, 2003 Whose ...