From: [transnationale.org] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 October 2002 16:58
To: j.armitage
Subject: The TCO newsletter, october 1, 2002
In the news (from 9/24 to 10/1):
Transgenic - GMO
GM trial ruined by rogue gene strain (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#transgenique
Processed food
Toxic acrylamide in cooked foods (27/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#industrielle
Water - privatization and quality
10 Questions With Pictet Global Water Fund's Philip Rohmer
(30/09/2002)
Backlash spreads over privatization of water (24/09/2002)
Turning off the tap for poor (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#eau
Pollution - shipping - mining - pesticides - waste
Tanker Owner to Pay $221M For Oil Spill (27/09/2002)
Bayer Found Responsible for Poisoning of Children in Peru (26/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#pollution
Logging
Corrupt timber trade gobbles up tropical forest (27/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#deforestation
Rating agencies - audit - accountancy - certification
SEC launches HealthSouth probe (27/09/2002)
Accounting's White Knight (27/09/2002)
Congress studies Global Crossing (26/09/2002)
WorldCom's Ebbers Gained $10.6 Mln on Citigroup IPOs (25/09/2002)
SEC formalizes Bristol-Myers probe (25/09/2002)
Ex-Enron Official Will Plead Guilty. First Case Against a Company
Executive. (24/09/2002)
SEC flags 13 problem firms (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#agences_notation
Competition - mergers - cartels
Music groups settle on CD price-fixing (01/10/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#concentration
Privatisation - deregulation
Transco transfer may hike power rates (27/09/2002)
Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron (26/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#dereglementation
Jobs - restructuring - prison labor
Bombardier cuts 2,000 jobs (30/09/2002)
SBC Communications Will Cut 11,000 More Positions (30/09/2002)
Cruise liner crews slave below decks (27/09/2002)
GE workers pick up final checks as plant closes (27/09/2002)
Nortel's stock swoons on layoff news (25/09/2002)
Cingular to Cut Up to 3,000 Jobs, 7.5% of Workforce (24/09/2002)
On the Road to Recovery or Recession? (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#emploi
Taxes - subsidies
Bitterness at EU sugar subsidies (30/09/2002)
Firms accused of chicanery could get IRS tax break (27/09/2002)
Country's biggest electricity generator seeks bailout to avoid collapse
(27/09/2002)
Subsidizing pollution (27/09/2002)
Now, a Corporate Push to Avoid State and Local Taxes (25/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#impots
Offshore banking - tax haven---shell companies - -money laundering
AOL, Airline Customer Records Being Sought by IRS (25/09/2002)
Feds collar 52 in covert probe of securities workers (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#paradis
Control - Echelon - intellectual property
Alcatel owns US employee's thoughts (26/09/2002)
Hollywood's private war for social control (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#controle
Advertising - marketing
Non-recording of commercials is theft (27/09/2002)
UNICEF and McDonald's team up for fund-raising for children's charities
(26/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#publicite
World Trade Organisation - MAI - NAFTA - FTAA - Euromed
Bolivia vs. Bechtel case goes to World Bank tribunal (26/09/2002)
NAFTA panel says cannot rule on Methanex MTBE case (25/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#commerce
United States
Congress got hot IPOs, too (27/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#etatsunis
National
Foreign Ministry to probe Mitsui over 'bribery' case (25/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#france
Corporate influence on health policies
First, you market the disease... then you push the pills to treat it
(26/09/2002)
Antidepressant Seroxat tops table of drug withdrawal symptoms
(26/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#influence_profits
Strategy, interventions - forbidden weapons - Latin America - gulf wars
Radioactive Gene Busting Munitions Spiked with Plutonium (27/09/2002)
Who armed Saddam (26/09/2002)
The US is now a threat to the rest of the world (25/09/2002)
Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors (25/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#suprematie
Political leaders
Former President's 'Hidden Treasure' Appalls Nicaragua (27/09/2002)
Swiss Return $77.5 Million From Ex-Officials to Peru (24/09/2002)
UK firms face race lawsuit (24/09/2002)
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/actualite.htm#dirigeants
242 corporate profiles updated between 23/09/2002 and 01/10/2002
http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/etn.htm#update
The Transnational Corporations Observatory
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