New Participatory Project: Getting Behind GE's Green Gloss
Submitted by Bob Burton on
In May 2005 General Electric, which is now ranked as the world's tenth largest company, launched its "Ecomagination" PR campaign.
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'Tis the Season of Exploitation
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
The National Labor Committee (NLC) has released a report on sweatshop conditions in China which pinpoints holiday items being made at Guangzhou Huanya Gift Ltd.
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I Am America (And So Can Hughes?)
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Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
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"It's an oddly familiar pattern of deception," writes Dan Froomkin.
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Mon Dieu! GMOs Make Inroads in France
Submitted by Judith Siers-Poisson on
The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy wants the French people to be able to opt for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), not just to opt against them.
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Siemens Wants to Regain Trust by Changing the Subject
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When Lawsuits Fly, Roll Out the Corporate Social Responsibility
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Facing a massive lawsuit brought against it by the Nigerian government, cigarette maker British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) knows exactly what to do: roll out the Corporate Social
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The U.S. Propaganda Blitz in Post-War Japan
Submitted by Bob Burton on
A report written in 1959 by Mark May, a Yale University professor and expert on psychological warfare, detailed the extensive operations by the United States Information Service (USIS) in Japan after the end of World War II. The report was recently uncovered in the National Archives in Washington by Kenneth Osgood, an assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. The report reveals that 23 of 50 USIS-sponsored programs were not publicly identified as U.S. funded projects.
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Al Jazeera's Struggle for U.S. Airtime
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Andrew Stroehlein, the director of media and information at the International Crisis Group, reflects on why the English language version of Al Jazeera's television news operation "remains unavailable to most Americans." The quality of reporting from what is perhaps the best-funded television news network, he argues, is not the problem.
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Deadly Cowboys
Submitted by Bob Burton on
Blackwater USA is a private military contractor facing a federal U.S. grand jury investigation for the shooting of Iraqi citizens. The company recently hit the headlines after its personnel opened fire on Iraqi civilians in September, killing 17.
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