dack.com All war-all the time.AND... Latest Corporate Watch Newsletter - Corporations and War by Corporate Watch (see below) See also: Latest revelation of US Corporations who supplied arms to Iraq - Ref: http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.21A.us.firms.iraq.htm
Corporations & War Sent out on: Mon Dec 23rd '02 www.corporatewatch.org Special double issue of Corporate Watch with articles on corporations and war - history of corporations and war, Iraq and the oil interest, arms industry, NATO expansion...plus general news stories Corporate Watch Newsletter Issue 11-12 Special Double Issue - Corporations and War Links to individual articles below - you can also download the whole newsletter as a pdf (with pictures!) at www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/newsletter11.pdf. Paper copies �1.50 inc. p+p from us, or a whole year's subscription for just �5. Private Power Partnerships It has all the makings of a Tom Clancy bestseller. The government plans to sell a stake in its top-secret defence laboratories currently working on technology to enable people to live on the moon (anyone remember Ben Elton's Stark?). The buyer? a shadowy American organisation, with ex-presidents and prime ministers as special advisors, that has invested millions of dollars for the Bin Laden family and Saudi royalty. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part1.htm War and Corporations - a brief primer As the military machine gears up for another war it seems worth taking a closer look at the links between business and conflict. Corporations were born out of the wars of colonisation and today the relationship between military expansion and companies remains. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part2.htm Oil and War by Milan Rai Is the projected war on Iraq intended to reinforce US domination of the energy resources of the Middle East? Milan Rai argues that it is, but not in the way most people think. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part3.htm War is Business, Business is War Dave Whyte, University of Leeds One of the most bizarre features of the various propaganda efforts in the preparation for the latest all out assault on Iraq is the frequent bandying around of references to WWII figures. Whilst politicians and media sources in the West frequently compare Saddam Hussein with Hitler, the Iraqi leader himself has been quoting speeches by Winston Churchill. Dave Whyte looks at the history of Iraq, corporations and war. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part4.htm The Invisible Handout Of The Market: Defence companies and government not quite getting the hang of free trade Pippa Gallop The emergence of global arms companies sits very uneasily with the state-centred concept of international politics which still dominates military thinking. `National Security' goes, by its very nature, against the grain of globalization, relying as it does on a view of the world as a collection of independent states acting in their `national interest'. It is virtually the only area of trade which is excluded from World Trade Organization agreements. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part5.htm Propaganda Diary News on the role of PR companies in promoting war against Iraq. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part6.htm Genetix RoundUp Soya, Soya, everywhere� Monsanto's attempted takeover of Argentina. New Markets for GM crops in India and elsewhere. Syngenta in Identity Crisis why the GM giant is pretending to be an NGO. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part10.htm Babylonian Times True stories from the other side of the corporate looking-glass. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part8.htm PLUS: Missing plutonium found in house and garden near Reading Good news for Burma Fate of public services `in the hands of unelected trade lawyers' NATO expands but at whose expense? http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part7.htm Book reviews `Some common concerns imagining BP's Azerbaijan-Georgia- Turkey pipelines system' by the Baku Ceyhan campaign. `PFI vs. Democracy' pamphlet series by Melanie McFadyean and David Rowland. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue11/isue11_part9.htm www.corporatewatch.org.uk
