Corporate Watch Newsletter Issue 14 August 2003

Are corporations as rotten as six year old apples? Issue 14 keeps diving into the barrel and emerging with the evidence. Featuring Shell, AstraZeneca, Network Rail, a man from the MOD and more. WARNING: 100% Relevant.

Shell Shocker
Chris Grimshaw investigates the UK’s most radioactive house, and finds a curiously forgetful multinational behind it.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/issue14_part1.htm

ACT NOW!
Health is Going…Going…Corporate. The Health and Social Care Bill exposed for what it is: an out and out push to privatise the Health Service.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part2.htm

DSEi
Welcome to the Fair. Read and judge: quotes from major players in the largest arms fair in Europe.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part3.htm

Iraq update
Easy Pickings for Vultures. Or rather, fraudulent, incompetent and criminal vultures. A round-up of the recent multinational action in Iraq.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part4.htm

Farms, Fascism and Famine
Land Reform and the Politics of Disintegration in Zimbabwe. Kate Prendergast deconstructs the nightmare behind Mugabe.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part5.htm

No Hearing for Nike
Corporate critics take heart. Rebecca Spencer analyses recent developments in the Nike “Free Speech” case, and concludes that a major breakthrough is waiting to happen.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part6.htm

UK News Round-up
The good, the bad, and the incomprehensible.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part7.htm

Book Reviews
Mark Curtis’ Web of Deceit and Paul Kingsnorth’s One No, Many Yeses.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part8.htm

Diary
A selection of good causes, glorious events and positive actions.
 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue14/part9.htm

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