Jst a quick note, the Dow Chemical plant was in New Plymouth, not Plymouth.

Cheers

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This is the way of world corporations do business by abusing the world's poorest people. I noticed most of these corporations were started in the USA. I do not know when corporate boards and dividends became the number one priority. Used to be if you got 4-7% on your investment, it was a good stock. Now they want over 20% and they do not care how they make it. Too bad all those self-righteous Christian people are not in caring about people business. They could take their energy and put it into fighting these world wreckers. They care more about Ford advertising in gay magazines than what Ford does to our environment in this country.

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Can we add Sony to list?

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Hardly surprising behaviour since the very concept if incorporation is designed to dodge taxes nobody else can't.

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Goodness, it is so difficult now to keep track of all the nasty companies and all their products and various names. What I find the most worrisome is that some progressive groups focus on just one issue and tell us to buy from these corporations. (ex:Texaco and Ford are "gay-friendly") I am sure they do not mean to be insensitive to other issues; it is just quite a job to keep tabs on everything. Does anyone know of a website that is all-inclusive on progressive issues and can provide clear advice on the thousands of products on the market today? I wish there were some type of law that would require all corporations to clearly identify themselves. This name-changing trick is just plain underhanded.

Also, please visit:
www.dowethics.com

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Although I give little credibility to lists (including Letterman's "Top 10" and Billboards "Top 100"), the inventory of the "14 worst" firms is amusing. I do wonder, though, why only one of the most egregious companies is "foreign" - and that one is French for goodness' sake. Why is it that, with you Americans, it's always about you? Are there no British, German, Swiss - to say nothing of Russian corporations that are as environmentally unfriendly, unethical and just plain corrupt?

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The only reason anyone starts a business is to make a profit. To expect corporations to have any other goal is unrealistic. Boycotts are an effective tool but they are hard to organize and publicize. Also there are so many criminals that the average consumer can only be aware of a small percentage of them. The only way to control corporations is through law. One control would be to grant corporate licenses that would have to be renewed periodically. The license of any corporation that did not serve the public interest would not be renewed. Broadcasting companies can operate profitably under this system and so could any corporation. Of course, such a law cannot be enacted or enforced while powerful corporatons control both political parties. Our representative government represents the rich and powerful not the average citizen. Ordinary citizens must take extraordinary action to bring our government under control. Click on do it now

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Perhaps the newly reclassified Ultra - Mega corporation, Procter & Gamble, (now with added Gillette) could make the list as well. Job cuts, health care cuts enroute to health care elimination, outrageous job injury record... and if people only knew what they dump into the Susquehanna River...

Or perhaps it's just my own bias that prompts this nomination?

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The bloodthirsty, demented, murderous insanity occasioned by the world water, oil, seed, land etc., resource grab by these concentrations of wealth is blithely hidden by the bland smiley face of Jesus.

The religious booboisie get their nuts off on it.

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Including this one is a bit myopic, I believe. Yes, they do THAT, but how can a host of other weapons manufacturers be spared, causing carnage on a worldwide scale, and Caterpillar be included, for these senseless, but statistically less significant killings? How did they end up here?

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Just a quick correction to an otherwise (mostly) fine article. Fluconazole is an anti-FUNGAL not an anti-retroviral drug. It is not used to fight AIDS in any way, but merely to treat opportunistic fungal infections that tend to come up in people who don't have a functioning immune system to fight them off.

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I mean for them it's just about business and their bottom line. If not one bulldozing company, then another would take its place. Like in the USA, the rightwing in Israel would go out on a limb to throw ethics out the window just for political expediency and I'll bet it's only a matter of enticing Catepillar with the biggest albeit extremely unethical lucrative deals.

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The sins of the listed corporations pale into insignificance compared to those of people who get their hands on state power and cannot be dismissed. Fidel Castro, the Chinese Communist Party ... there are your real human rights abusers. Watch those socialists!

Doug

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The more things change the more they stay the same . It seems that it's not just human's that are suffering because of corporate power that have created a favorable climate for the selling of skins of CATS and DOGS , that are sold as fur trim on clothing . Did anyone out there see Larry King's Show Sunday nite , about the cruel way China allows the killing of dogs and cats . If you did , you would have been horrified at the way they killed them and the look on the faces of the cats and dogs . They put a wire around the necks and hang the cats . They tie the dogs by the lower jaw with wire to a post and then start skining them alive . How do we get this stopped ? Who can help ?

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It's Kellogg Brown & Root...not "Brand".

The Houston construction company, Brown & Root, was a beneficiary of plenty o' pork back in the LBJ days.

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I have no love for drug companies that put medicines out of the reach of the poor. It is always a good idea, though, to get your facts straight.
Diflucan (made by Pfizer) is an antifungal drug. Yes, many AIDS patients use it to fight their opportunistic yeast infections, but it does not affect the actual AIDS (HIV) virus at all.

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It's Kellogg, Brown and Root. Kellogg-Briand is some historical pact (see this).

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Articles of incorporation were developed in order to limit shareholder liability. Incorporation, from its beginning in the 1600s , has been a license to wrong doing and promise-breaking with legal impunity. This is true in any nation that licenses corporations. Is it any wonder that the biggest corporations are the worst offenders?

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I recently made some changes in my portfolio and it is obvious to me that the investments I hold reflect me.Some of the corporations listed I want no part of so in making the changes I spoke with my financial advisor to make investments in socially responsible corporations and the are out there.It can be tricky when corporations have what I call, "the long fingers of subsidiaries." It was/ is quite frightening to look at charts and see how so few are engaged in so much. That is the maze.I am undrstood by some that I purchase some items from questionable corporations and there are places I will not go,such as Wal-Mart (I do not darken the doorways of that corporation...and they are also entering THE MAZE via buyouts. As far as boycotts, I usually don't any business there , but some I do. I look at the list (thank you for compiling it!And will definitely do more homework. As far as owning any stock purchase I want to be as congruent as possible. What on earth happened to what I remember being called anti-trust laws?I can imagine, and the world of "loopholes" I have yet to fully investigate (to me it is "dry" and I have a strong feeling I amnot alone so many are intentionally kept "ignorant" which seems very much a priority to this administration due to it's "sleeping with the corporations." Money cuts for education will lead to a generation of ill-informed citizens. That will make us ,as has happened in the world MANY times,easy to turn a nation into "sheeple". I am no alarmist,yet an ignorant citizenry is so easy to manipulate. I'd say most of who come to this site are concerned about education,truth,cleareyed trust,human rights,our ecomomy and jobs. There had been a five year period of manipulating us(mentioned some methods) plus fear ,USING FEAR for votes. Thanks, for a forum for expression (predominenly marvelous articles and thoughtful feedback.Thanks again ! Mary Basombrio aka Placid

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While the article is great (disturbing are the corrections by commentators), note that the corporations are large. What about the corner hot dog stand? Your local organic grocery? The used toy store?

Moreover, there is not one mention that actual people work in an organized form that we identify as corporations.

Have you ever seen a corporation? No, but every reader "represents" one--you all have the soot and pollution in you from them. We all carry a Body Burden from unregulated toxic chemicals. And none of us would have the conveniences we do have, such as cell phones, without them.

When an Us v. Them attitude is cultivated then a loss perspective ensues. Demonization of the corporation omits the fact that people just like you and me work there. I'd rather see an inclusive perspective be disseminated, like stories from those who work for the corporations. Then activists could develop methods to of changing the public's mind that would truly be effective.

Please understand that I do not support what these corporations are doing now. They have surreptitiously and underhandedly gained the power they have over the last 200 years, morphing from mere investment tools into powerful imaginary playmates that have run wild and out of control. Of course, when someone works for the corporation, the pursuit of profit changes their outlook as they pursue profit, just like the Milgram experiment of so long ago where humans hurt other humans at the behest of an authority figure.

Conscious and informed activism is what I am pushing for, here.

Jonathan Frieman
Center for Corporate Policy

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Chevron's array of garden chemicals gives even the smallest among us a chance to poison the land. Jack

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can we please have some names and maybe even some pictures of the faces of the people who pull the strings at these large organized crime syndicates.
there is no person named "chevron" who authorized the shooting of protestors but there is a real person who organized and gave the go ahead for thier private army to murder third world citizens. WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES?
AND WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE? PLEASE!

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You all bash great companies, employing a lot of good people and many of the companies have done a lot of good in the world. Every one of you jags posting is a supporter of DOW and other chemical companies. Who do you think makes the plastic that encases your computer? You all drive cars made by Ford and others and probably complain about high gas prices too. You all drive your Ford cars on roads made by caterpillar. You all live in a country defended by the evil likes of Lockheed. If you were all spouting off like you are in China you would be dead or in prison, but screw that evil Lockheed that helps protect your freedom. And youall can thank Pfizer that you are alive today cuz your great grampa would likely be dead to some bug if the company had not figurted out how produce penicillin in large quantities. The companies are not perfect and like people, some have done bad things but they are not the dasterdly, world wrecking monsters you all make them out to be either. So sell your cars, stop using sudafed and dont you dare fix those levees in New Orleand using any Caterpillar equipment.

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Thank you for a most imformative article. I made copies and am leaving them in conspicious areas, coffee shops, internet cafes, my place of business, college libraries, city libraries and anywhere else people are malling around looking for something to read. Good Job.

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Everyone: I suggest you watch a documentary called 'The Corporation', though I suppose it's possibly banned in your country. Even so, search out a copy and give it a look. I think it will answer a lot of your questions about how such things as these 14 pariahs and others could come about in a supposedly free and caring society.

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Maybe im wrong, but if my memory is correct, i believe the fine people living in the houses that were destroyed by Caterpillar, killed many Jews in and out of Israel. You know, the bomb stuff. I think its a great idea that the killers should have a nice warm home to come back to. To eat, sleep and build their bombs. All the other corporations, i agree with you.

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I don't claim to be a judge of all things, but I'm puzzled by a worst corporation list that includes Chevron, but doesn't even mention Exxon. As Jared Diamond documented in "Collapse," Chevron has been--believe it or don't--a conscientious company in New Guinea, determined to avoid not just pollution, but even simply road-building. He concluded that "In effect, their Kutubu oil field functions as by far the largest and most rigorously controlled national park in Papua New Guinea (446)."

Further, Chevron has been spending millions to bring public attention to global warming and the need to conserve oil, while ExxonMobil, by contrast, has been spending millions funding science-abusing think tanks that look for any and all possible reasons to minimize the very real threat of global warming, as documented by Chris Mooney in an April story in "Mother Jones."

I'm not a Chevron stockholder, have no involvement with the company, and wouldn't excuse their other failings. But this judgement doesn't make sense to me, and I have to say so.

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While always interested in these types of articles (albeit depressing), I wish someone would highlight those companies that actually do a good job of promoting the right values (e.g. Patagonia, CostCo, Interface, etc). Buying their products/services/stock probably does as much good as NOT buying those classified as "evil doers". Knowing there are alternatives voices in commerce gives us a bit of hope & inspiration...

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Identifying the worst corporations and their wrongdoing is a crucial step in the process of correcting problems. I think a next step is to identify individuals in the corporations who are driving this. They will probably be the ones with the most money (the CEO, etc). Having identified them legal proceedings could commence. Of course they own the US legal system, so nothing could be done here (even Ken Lay is still running free). However, they could be indicted in other countries, and nabbed during one of their trips.

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Does anyone else get a kick out of how same liberals who sneer at the "simplistic" labeling of Muslim terrorists as evil never hesitate to apply that term to corporations? Suicide bombers and Al Qaedi are victims of society who we need to "understand." Ford Motor Company, on the other hand, is a destructive force that must be stopped at all costs.

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Alliant was the largest supplier of anti-personnel landmines to the Department of Defense (DoD). They ended landmine production in 1997 but in January 2005, they announced they had a new joint contract to begin field testing their new next generation anti-personel landmine. In 1997, when asked by Human Rights Watch to sign a statement that ATK would not produce landmines in the future, Alliant refused, stating "if we don't make them, someone else will." Landmines are considered to be an indiscriminate weapon and illegal under International Law.

• Alliant has supplied over 16 million rounds of Depleted Uranium munitions to the DoD. Many leading scientist attribute, in part, DU munitions as a cause of the Gulf War Syndrome in American soldiers who served in the Middle East war.

• Alliant supplies all three rocket stages for the first strike submarine based Trident II (D5) nuclear missile, a weapon of mass destruction and illegal under International Law.

• Since the 1960s, ATK (Honeywell) has been suppling cluster bombs to the DoD and these were recently used in Afghanistan and Gulf War II (cluster bombs were also used in Kosovo and Gulf War I). The cluster bomb sub-munition is painted bright yellow, the same color the "aid" packages the US dropped in Afghanistan. The military claims a dud rate of 5% while some experts say it is closer to 20%. This weapon system continues to maim and kill civilans long after conflicts have ended. It is indiscriminate and thus illegal under International Law.

http://www.circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

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Follow the Money !
Every one of these Corporations were and are heavy contributors to the W. Bush campaign of dissinformation.

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To really understand the workings of the corporatocracy, read, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman". These corporations are, with the complicity of the US, simultaneously controlling, exploiting slave labor and trashing the planet. Get scared....Get active....

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Monsanto produces Aspartame, which has been found to cause brain lesions. But they don't care. That is a contribution to the pharmaceutical industry, also Bush's allies.

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thank you for existing, great article.

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What we have here in America is a corporatist state. The government has turned into the corporations' toady. This situation must be rectified or we will know insufferable tyranny. I suggest the development of an alternative society, independent of and wholly unreliant upon the current corporatist society.

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Beyond the matters mentioned in the report, the below are other reasons people of conscience should not support Coca-Cola:

Use of sugar refined from sugarcane hazardously harvested by children as young as 12. ( From Human Rights Watch --
http://www.hrw.org/children/labor/elsalvador/

Opposition to Bottle Bills ( See http://www.bottlebill.org/resources/news/news-cokepepsi.htm )

Aggressive Marketing to Children of Nutritionally Worthless and Damaging Products, Contributing to Obesity and Other Diseases. ( See http://www.commercialexploitation.org and http://www.schoolpouringrights.com/ )

Coca-Cola is intertwined through its directors with noxious companies, including Chevron-Texaco, General Electric, and Dow Chemical (current owner of Union Carbide from which victims of the Bhopal Disaster still seek justice).

Coca-Cola and leadership have been highly supportive of Bush and the Republicans.

Coke's opposition to bottle bills contributes to modern society's vast waste of plastic bottles and other consumer items in landfills rather than recycling and reusing the materials. If we did more reuse and recycling of products and wrapping materials, we would greatly decrease the use of fossil fuels and other virgin resources, diminishing the release of greenhouse gases and protecting the environment in other ways, as well as lessening dependency upon petroleum from the Middle East. In the past Coke has been highly resistant to environmental pressure to incorporate recycled materials in its bottles, and only after a multi-year campaign did the company agree to a 10% or so recycled target.

Coca-Cola's Dasani bottles are tinted blue to make the water seem alluring to consumers. Unfortunately the source of the blue tint makes the bottles difficult to recycle.

Regrettably, Hollywood allows Coca-Cola to pay for product placements in films and televisions shows, thereby encouraging people to support this dastardly company. Here is a way that actors and producers could join in solidarity with students and others campaigning against Coke.

Join with activists around the world to hold Coca-Cola accountable for its wrongs. Please visit the website www.KillerCoke.org or e-mail StopKillerCoke @ aol.com ; and also visit the websites of the other groups involved in pressuring Coca-Cola to become a better company.

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I was educated in Europe and came to the U.S. for a graduate degree. Imagine how surprised I was to be sitting in a class dealing with accounting and strategic management and be told that everything I had learned in Europe about social responsibility and the fact that employees are not chattel nor a liability was wrong, and that the only obligation a corporation (in the U.S., at least) is to its shareholders - nobody and nothing else matters!
When I raised my hand and asked about the "third column" every business must stand on -- its employees and society in general --I was reprimanded by the professor for raising a "deliberate distraction" and booed by a few of my American classmates.
This type of behavior is the norm in rah-rah, flag-waving, ill-educated, ill-mannered and thoughtless America. A very few smart members of the intelligentsia have seen fit to exploit the populace's Lemming-mentality to the form of its current zenith --the Bush administration and the willingness to rape, plunder and loot the coffers of state and bankrupt the moral credit the country once had and enjoyed around the world.
Anyone saying anything here these days against business is a pariah, an automatic outcast. After all, what's good for business must be good for America, right? Why is it that these very people, the poorest of the American poor, continue to support this administration's outright lies, corruption, hair-raising human rights and legal abuses and allow corporate America to run roughshod over their lives and accelerate the elimination of small business and the middle class? The answer is obvious: A lack of education. Since WWII, America has been on a "We're the biggest, baddest, bestest nation on Earth" binge, fueled by a complicit media and encouraged by a government rank with corruption and racketeering since Eisenhower's days.
Undoing and reeducating the people that need it most on the planet -- the Americans -- that their behavior is irresponsible, unacceptable and will not be tolerated by the rest of the global community is not something which will occur quickly or easily. It will take a powerful opposing force (such as the EU once it finally gets its act together) to cause the U.S. to reconsider some of the vilest, most detrimental and destructive practices on the planet and to reeducate its own masses that they are not going to be allowed to do with the world as they wish.

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That Cat is on this list is insane. Cat is union everywhere in this country. No, I neither work for Cat nor have any association with it. But, come on -- the worse you can come up with is that they sold a piece of equipment? No wonder no one can figure out who is wearing white hats and who is wearing black hats.

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I can't believe this goes on. The greed and corruption are just too much.

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I just e-mailed this article to my brother and made a copy for myself. This is absolutely frightening. But as long as we have an administration like the present one and we continue to be apathetic to world situations, these companies will get away with what they are doing. The average American is probably unaware of what is going on and probably doesn't even look at this terrific website. I have learned and found out so much thanks to Alternet. Keep us informed!! Everyone should be reading this.

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I just have to say that the thought provoking article and comments are truly amazing! Thanks AlterNet for bringing us together and TALKING about issues!

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I find it incredibly unfair to call Caterpillar "evil" for selling bulldozers to Israel. I fully support the bulldozing of a suicide bomber's family home.

Since the bomber is planning to die anyway, the only way to discourage this behaviour is to target their loved ones.

Hamas and other organizations pay out to the families of "martyrs," encouraging the practice, so it makes sense to counterbalance that incentive with an opposite pressure.

If families don't want their homes bulldozed, they'd best make sure none of the kids decide to become mass murderers.

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"Makers of heavy equipment have begun to provide help to areas of southern and Southeast Asia stricken by the late December earthquake and tsunamis that have claimed as many as 140,000 lives.

Caterpillar , Peoria, Ill., says its dealers in the Asia Pacific region “have made equipment, personnel and other resources available to aid in recovery and cleanup efforts. At the corporate level, Caterpillar is working with its dealers to make additional equipment available to government agencies and non-governmental agencies working in the region.”

In a news release, the company noted that it knew of no casualties among Caterpillar or dealership employees or their families in the region. "

Remember the same bulldozers are used for countless acts of economic and social good, lets not let shifty "journalists" convince us they are "home crushers." I didn't see Microsoft on the list. Dont they provide the equipment that countless hackers use to destroy the lives of innocent people through identity theft.

I don't think corporations are angels, but when you twist the stories like this you lose your credibility with me.

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The article lists some true blatant abuses that these companies should be held accountable for. I think we could probably all drill down to the local level in our communities to find examples of corporate abuse.

Here in Austin, Texas, AMD is moving their corporate headquarters over our aquifer - to the outrage of the citizens who have worked for more than 25 years to protect the area. Over 16,000 people have signed an online petition asking AMD to reconsider the move.

Today's Austin American Stateman reports that "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. was to unveil plans with the City of Austin today for its $230 million corporate campus in Southwest Austin, a project that has stirred up controversy because the site is in the sensitive Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer watershed... critics say the location is so wrong that it outweighs everything else that AMD is doing. The site is at the western edge of the zone where streams and rain runoff drain into the aquifer, in an area that until now has seen little major commercial development."

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I won't share my opinion on that piece of propaganda post, other than to say the entire basket of stocks are doing well!

CAT Caterpillar Inc. - NYSE
CVX Chevron Corp - NYSE
CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. - NYSE
DOW Dow Chemical Co. - NYSE
CSC Computer Sciences Corp. - NYSE (acquired DynCorp in 2003)
F Ford Motor Co. - NYSE
HAL Halliburton Co. - NYSE
LMT Lockheed Martin Corp. - NYSE
MON Monsanto Co. - NYSE
NESN Nestle - VX
MO Altria Group Inc. - NYSE
PFE Pfizer Inc. - NYSE
SZE Suez - NYSE
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc. - NYSE

Here's a Yahoo! Finance summary of them.

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This article is full of inacuracies, myths and lies. Knowing some facts are wrong makes me question much of the rest.

I suggest everyone does some real research on these topics before you start your boycots, mass emailing and protests. (Real research means go to the source for facts. Try a library instead of a web site with an anti corporate agenda, or a web site with referenced articles.)

But just to start you thinking:

Caterpillar
Please. They sold some heavey equipment to the Isreal. How that equipment is used has nothing to do with Caterpillar. Sounds like the Isreali military is the culprit, that, and people too stupid to get out of the way of a large piece of advancing machinery.

Dow Chemical
The article states "Dow still refuses to address its liabilities in Bhopal." Who makes this stuff up?!?
This tragic incident happened 16 years prior to Dow purchasing UCC. In fact, UCC settled with the Indian Supreme Court in 1989 to the tune of $470 million. This was actually $120 million more that the plaintiffs demanded. The case is considered completely settled with UCC, with the Indian government handling any remaining disputes.
More info here.

Ford Motor Company
Fun with Statistics 101.
In any list there is a first and a last. Ford is 6th of the six auto makers rated. Evil? No, just in last place. Someone has to be. There are many more auto manufacturers after this list of six, and most of them are far worse offenders than Ford.
Also, all the Big Six automakers' fuel economy decreased while CO2 emissions went up, not just Ford's. Chalk it up to higher demand for larger SUV's and trucks.
Note that Ford meets the CAFE numbers set by the NHTSA, when many import manufacturers don't.

Monsanto
Monsanto dominates because farmers like Monsanto products. Is Monsanto evil because they sell something that a user likes to buy?

People, try to think in a critical manner when you read something like this. Not everything you read on the internet is true!

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I am writing in reaction to this anti-Israel article. The bulldozing of the homes of terrorist murderers of civilians is done as a non-violent tactic by the Israeli government; instead of executing these criminals. There is nothing wrong with the Caterpillar company selling bulldozers to them.

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What an orgy of nonsense. If half this stuff were true, reasonable intelligent progressives would have carefully documented it... instead there's some emotionally-charged checklist of alleged demonic corporate activities and a mob of zealots cheering on its authors.

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I love how the author has no problem suggesting that exploiting pfizer's intellectual property (in the form of aids medications) is a human right - and yet this page is copyrighted. I guess it's a do as i say not do as i do sort of thing...

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I just got an "action alert" from the Human Rights Campaign that I should thank Ford for getting a perfect score on their rating of LGBT friendly corporations. I did thank them, my thinking being if I have to buy a car, it might as well be from one of the evildoers that supports us queers.

Just a further reminder, as others have noted, that the criteria for this list focus on a particular profile of evils and do not address other forms of oppression.

Peace,
Kelly

P.S. I've about had it with HRC anyway. This is a line from the letter they asked me to send to Ford:

"Ford's current policies and trends are in line with mainstream corporate America."

What the &(*% does that mean? Especially give the atrocities on this list as well as those missing from the list.

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Monsanto is regularly suing farmers to obtain a stranglehold on the food supply with GM seeds and now through the NIAA with RFID animals.

Monsanto, Cargill and RFID makers are pushing NAIS legislation that will require an electronic identity chip in every chicken, cow, pig, goat or any animal that ever leaves its property for processing or other reasons. If you have even a single farm animal (food or not), you must register the GPS location of your home into a federal database at your own expense. If your animals ever leave the property, you would be required to electronically tag and register each one in addition to having your home locatable by satellite.

“you will be breaking the law for being a farmer without government permission”
see article at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0511/S00146.htm

The government says they need this to control for bird flu. Bird flu has been around for more than 50 years. Since it has never transmitted from human to human in all that time, it is likely that it is not even possible to do so. That means that only farmers of infected birds who do not use antibacterial soap to wash their hands are at risk of catching this. Japan and many other nations control mad cow by testing cows before processing. How hard is that??? NAIS will not help.

If you are thinking this won’t effect you, it will , if you eat meat or vegetables. The punitive costs will result in most small, medium sized and organic farms being driven out of business. Processors, butchers and related businesses will follow. As central factory farms become the only option for food, if you are not a producer, your food will be dependent on fossil fuels for transport. (going up soon). Also the diversity of breeds is what keeps our food supply resilient.

If we are going to pass farm regulation, let’s have agronomists and farmers design it, not conglomerates like Cargill. They are marketing this program as free, nothing could be further from the truth.

what people can do:
• Don’t volunteer to tag or register, the NIAA is using volunteers to promote its agenda
• Contact your state veterinary office and voice your opposition
• Call your state senators and representatives and tell them you oppose NAIS.

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Yes, these companies are hell. They live in a world of profit at any cost. The buck is the bottom line.

But they are NOT alone. There are so MANY companies that do the same that it is mind boggling.

What to do? If we were to personally boycott each and every company there would be no way to live.

For years at a time I was a vegetarian, 3 times in all - the last as a vegan. It was impossible. Even if you were to eat only vegetable protein and wear only cotton, you still can't avoid animal products which are EVERYWHERE, even in roads and tires.

Surely, one of the things we can do is to try to get Congress to eliminate the "personhood" of corporations. But, other than this, I think the ONLY way to go on, so that one can maintain one's sanity in this totally INSANE world, is to do what you can, on an individual level and in concert with others, to stop the horrors and abuses perpetrated by corporations and governments. It's a continual uphill battle and often ends in defeat. But what else can be done? I don't know.

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Corporations are a reflection of the current state of humanity in the developed world. We are greedy, comfortable bastards who enjoy our gas, our cars, our highways and every other commodity in our lives. Some of us even work for corporations and most of us enjoy their products at one level or the other.

Besides, we created them and we keep them thriving. They were created for us and keep on existing for us. They maintain our self-indulgent lifestyle.

So, in short, to put a stop to the evil corporate agenda, we have to find ways that fix the root of the problem: our need for their services.

We live in a superficial bubble, disconnected from nature and the rest of how the world lives. The evil corporation is one of the results.

I'm not excluding myself from this mass either. I am as culpable as anyone else, but I've already dealt with my capitalist demons. . . Have you?

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The George W Bush 2000 Stolen election commemorative Gold coin magnet.

Show Republicans your opposition to the illegitimate Bush regime.

http://www.cafepress.com/revolution09.40907793

Tell congress you don't approve of their "punish the poor" agenda.

http://www.hoflink.com/~dbaer/petitions.htm

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This whole article is just TRYING to find flaws in companies.

Caterpillar responsible for destroying Palestinian homes? So, is Amoco responsible for fueling the Caterpillars that destroy Pestinian homes? Give me a break.

Are we really being told that Coca-Cola is killing, kidnapping, and torturing people? Yeesh.

Blaming Ford for being one of the worst corporate wrong-doers for their bad fuel ecomony is just pathetic. Getting 6 miles to the gallon and billowing smoke from your muffler is a Pento thing as much as it is with an Explorer.

All evidence on Lockheed Martin is just childish attempts at producing a conspiracy theory. There's nothing TO the charges. Yes, I understand that the company has close ties with the US government and military, but shouldn't they? They DO, after all, produce the majority of our high-tech weapondry. While I feel it is wrong for them to be as closely tied,, the information in the article is just petty.

Do the math: If 40% of the world's cocoa comes from a specific area, do you expect that the world's LARGEST chocolate company can avoid dealing with that entire region? It's silly to suggest to, because of the inhumane labor practices in a production area, a company that consumes so much of a product should completely avoid in. It's even more laughable to call the company an "evildoer" for NOT.

While I strongly agree that Phillip-Morris belongs on this list, the facts provided with such suggestions are just useless. It's plain and simple: Phillip-Morris sells a product that kills hundreds of people every day. Their business tactics have and always will be shady, and their attempts to slow the use of tabbaco are just for aesthetic value. But, if people continue to use a product, whether it is addictive or not (since there are plenty of methods around such addictions), that's their own problem, and the company isn't going anywhere until people stop using it.

Something you seem to entirely neglect in your article about Mal-Mart, just for an example: Wal-Mart's world-leading contribution to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. The fact that Wal-Mart provides jobs to the unskilled,uneducated, and mentally/physically handicapped. Or that Wal-Marts are notorious for raising the population and value of a given town. Why are these things completely ignored?

Oh, I know why. You want something to complain about.

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Bank of America provides alot of the fuel (money of course) that helps these other companies do what they do, from war-profiteering, to outsourcing, to money-laundering . And Bank of America is a heavy outsourcer of American jobs ( ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/outsourcing/index.php ). And BofA consults with these companies on how to avoid US taxes by off-shoring (BofA and other similar banks have operations in the Caymen's for this purpose).

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