“… The historian mentioned one 2004 case in the central Colombian town of Melgar where 53 underage girls allegedly were sexually abused by nearby stationed military contractors ‘who moreover filmed [the abuse] and sold the ...
More than 8,000 Floridians whose mortgages were serviced by SunTrust Mortgage Inc. and lost their homes to foreclosures between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2013, are eligible for a refund. SunTrust might owe you ...
March 21, 2015 By the 1950s, Big Tobacco knew smoking caused cancer. By the 1960s, the companies knew nicotine was addictive and that smoking could lead to heart disease. But three decades later, tobacco executives ...
Also see: Genetically Modified BACTERIA Used to Make NutraSweet Modified and Additional Material by Arthur M. Evangelista, a former FDA Investigator — Original Authors of the Two Main Components: Alex Constantine and Gregory Gordon 1964 The ...
Mark Cornell faces maximum of 20 years in prison FRANKFORT, Ky. (March 10, 2015) — A central Kentucky oil operator has admitted to his role in a scheme that defrauded investors nationwide out of millions ...
The Republican-run Legislature is poised to pass and Gov. Scott Walker has promised to sign a fast-tracked bill that would turn Wisconsin into a right-to-work state. Although right to work wasn’t an issue in last ...
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars ...
Also see: Vanguard Group archive The Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission are still reviewing allegations that Vanguard Group Inc.’s unusual business structure operates in violation of federal tax law, according to ...
The History of a chemical company Monsanto is now instantly recognized as the company dominating the global food supply with its more than 7000 current worldwide patents. But today’s Monsanto is not a corporate newcomer. Although its literature heralds the company ...
In a recent video recounting the birth of Fanta soft drinks, Coca-Cola explains that its German operation had trouble getting cola-making ingredients to the country’s bottling plants 75 years ago, leading the bottlers to dream ...
“I do this job for the opportunity to kill the enemies of my country and also to get that boat I always wanted. . . . [W]hen engaged I will lay waste to everything around ...
“… the court didn’t pause to think about corporate crime. …” Recently, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., announced bold legislation that will limit corporate felons’ ability to influence our elections. It’s an important step toward undoing ...
From Sourcewatch: Cause of Action, formerly known as Freedom Through Justice Foundation, according to its website, is a non-profit organization claiming to use “public advocacy and legal reform tools to ensure greater transparency in government, protect ...
Google secretly gave the emails of WikiLeaks journalists to the US government in response to an espionage investigation targeting Julian Assange, according to documents disclosed by the internet giant. Three journalists who have worked for ...
CEO allegedly said he ‘can smell black people,’ ‘Jews stick together,’ launched tirade against Americans. 1/2/2015 A discrimination lawsuit has been filed against Revlon cosmetics CEO Lorenzo Delpani, according to the New York Post, for making bigoted remarks against African-Americans, ...
For Republicans, hiring lobbyists to handle the day-to-day goings on of Congress seems to have become a normal occurrence these days, so Academi lobbyist Jeff Shockey being named Staff Director of the House Intelligence ...
Also see: “How A Charlotte Stripper Got Credit Suisse To Admit To Mortgage Fraud And That ‘Someone Should Go To Jail For This’“ At long last, you can finally say that a massively wealthy multinational ...
“[Carl] Byoir represented nazi bankers and industrialists and the I.G. Farben interests. One of his clients was Ernest Schmitz, member of the I.G. Farben-Ilgner and the German American Board of Trade. His Information Services was ...
“…Government contracting often goes badly — and sometimes very badly in poorer, smaller countries. On the procurement side, poor price forecasting, limited competition, poorly designed tenders and fraud and corruption too often combine to produce ...
Sony’s Hacked Computers — A Cyber Gulf of Tonkin? Edited by Alex Constantine From the New York Times: New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack By NICOLE PERLROTH ...
Ships don’t come bigger than the Pieter Schelte. They don’t come more controversial either. Built in Korea at a cost of nearly $3 billion, the gargantuan new ship is now sailing towards the Netherlands, where it ...
Employees at a coffee roasting company discover sports bag packed with cocaine 18 Dec 2014 If the scent of coffee roasting wasn’t enough to wake workers up at a Berlin business this week, a surprise ...
December 11, 2014 A month after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealed leaked documents demonstrating that Luxembourg allowed Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other corporations to use the country as a tax haven, ICIJ has ...
December 10, 2014 WASHINGTON – The $1.1 trillion spending agreement reached by House and Senate negotiators on Tuesday night would vastly expand the amount of money that donors can give political parties, bolstering party leaders’ ...
December 7, 2014 The Christmas season probably isn’t the best time to be the subject of a lawsuit for polluting North Pole. The city of North Pole, Alaska, is suing an oil refinery owned by ...
“… The US and Tata were complicit in allowing Union Carbide to evade responsibility for the world’s worst industrial accident. Activists have also released two diplomatic cables from the online campaign group WikiLeaks, showing that ...
“… IG Farben went on to build a plant at Auschwitz so massive that it consumed more electricity per day than Berlin. …” How a company whose Nobel-winning scientists discovered vital medicines became a Nazi ...
HARBEL, Liberia — The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay bush trails. More and ...
The Republican victory in the US midterms was paid for by big energy interests and could hold back Obama’s climate ambition The resounding Republican victory in the 2014 midterm elections displayed that, despite unprecedented contributions ...
Monsanto will pay nearly $2.4 million to soft white wheat growers and wheat organizations to settle litigation over an unauthorized release of biotech wheat in Oregon. That works out to an average of less than $300 ...
Company officials said a valve somehow failed on a container of methyl mercaptan, a chemical used to make insecticide LA PORTE – Four DuPont workers are dead and another is in the hospital following a ...
Related: The Disappeared and Mexico’s New Dirty War Mexico horrified by suspected massacre of 43 students They say that the key to good brand humour is the sweet spot between the benign and the totally inappropriate. ...
A suit filed in federal court in Newark claims Eli Lilly put users at risk by aggressively marketing testosterone replacement drug Axiron while failing to adequately warn about the risk of heart attack and stroke. ...
“… Many noted that his personal spending habits were as conservative as his politics, which included a leadership role in the John Birch Society. …” October 21, 2014 Related: Photos: The life and times of Nelson ...
Newly disclosed National Security Agency documents suggest a closer relationship between American companies and the spy agency than has been previously disclosed. The documents, published last week by The Intercept, describe “contractual relationships” between the NSA and U.S. ...
