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Halliburton to Wounded Employee: You’ll Get a Medal - If You Don’t Sue

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Halliburton will help its combat-zone employees get the honors and recognition they deserve — if they promise not to sue the company.

Posted in Business |

Congressman Ney Admits To Corruption Conspiracy

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

The tentacles of public corruption in the Republican party do indeed extend from Washington all the way into Lake George as was validated Friday with Congressman Robert W. Ney…

Posted in Business, Politics |

Ford’s job massacre: A corporate crime

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Ford Motor Company’s plan to wipe out 44,000 hourly and salaried jobs and shut down 16 manufacturing facilities in North America is a brutal attack on the working class.

Posted in Business |

UK withholds World Bank donation

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

The UK is withholding £50m it had pledged to the World Bank in protest at conditions it attaches to aid.

Posted in Business, Breaking-News |

The one secret the oil industry doesn’t want you to know

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

You don’t have to change the oil in your car!

Posted in Business |

Berlusconi to face Spanish tax probe

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Silvio Berlusconi is set to face a criminal investigation into alleged tax fraud after a Spanish judge lifted immunity accorded to him while he was Italy’s prime minister.

Posted in Business, Politics |

RadioShack Uses E-Mail to Fire Employees

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Posted in Business, Science Technology |

US oil and defense industry chiefs cash in

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

US oil and defense industry executives are raking in record personal profits, cashing in on the wars in Iraq and…

Posted in Business |

Soft drink companies to remove benzene-forming chemical following lawsuit

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

A group of parents, which sued two beverage makers in the District of Columbia Superior…

Posted in Business |

New call for ban on junk food ads

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Health charities today renewed calls for a ban on the advertising of junk food to children as new government…

Posted in Business |

The Top 10 Corporate Democrats-For-Hire

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

They claim to be ‘centrists,’ but these D.C. Dems — whose corporate agendas aren’t too different from…

Posted in Business, Politics |

More drugs get slapped with lawsuits

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A new batch of drugs faces a barrage of lawsuits claiming that the drugs injured users and that manufacturers are…

Posted in Business |

Terror scare: Airlines threaten legal action against British government

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

A bitter row has broken out between the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and companies operating…

Posted in Business, War & Terrorism |

A corporate takeover of American borders

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Borders are a key element of national identity. When borders are violated, the result is often crisis and war…

Posted in Business |

CIA’s secret UK bank trawl may be illegal

Monday, August 21st, 2006

A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed…

Posted in Business |

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