Lobby Shop With A Non-Profit Front
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Ron Campbell, a lobbyist from SPS Consultants, successfully ran Mexican avocado growers campaign in 2004 to expand access to the U.S. market.
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Ron Campbell, a lobbyist from SPS Consultants, successfully ran Mexican avocado growers campaign in 2004 to expand access to the U.S. market.
Submitted by Bob Burton on
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy that precludes employees from accepting trips paid for by companies the agency regulates is easily side-stepped. Alexander Cohen reports that non-profit groups that "draw their members, their boards and even some of their funding from medical and pharmaceutical-related companies" paid for roughly one-third of the 3,600 sponsored trips received by hundreds of FDA employees since 1999.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
The Independent has published examples of some of the fake "newspaper articles" that the Lincoln Group paid to place in Iraqi newspapers. Andrew Buncombe shows how the articles were full of claims that contrasted sharply with reality on the ground at the time they were published.
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