Washington DC Strip Clubs: Supreme Court helps corporations shop for influence
Written on February 5, 2010 – 12:13 am | by ginger
Perkins invoked Nike’s alleged dependence on slave labor in Indonesia a number of times, but I couldn’t find any confirmation online. Indeed, it took me an hour to find evidence of any corporate malfeasance. I was Googling like it was 1999. By way of comparison, it took me less than a minute to find the unretouched bathing-suit photos of Kim Kardashian.
The Chinese government may be censoring Google, but I suspect there are corporate drones right here working to keep bad news buried.
Because there is bad news. Here, for your nightmare-inducement, is a “Most Wanted” list of Corporate human rights violators showing that companies we all use every day, like Chevron, Shell and Coke, are currently under suspicion of murder in developing countries. Which, unless you’re in the killing people business, is not a sustainable model.
Meanwhile, Nestlé is accused of using child labor to harvest cocoa beans on the Ivory Coast. And Philip Morris is trying to make smoking cool in Asia by teaching Thai strippers to blow smoke rings with their lady parts.