Posts Tagged ‘ corporate_crime ’

bm148 General Motors and the Death of Public Transport

bm148 General Motors and the Death of Public Transport

August 16, 2006

Around the 1930s, General Motors decided, together with other major corporations related to the auto industry, to form front companies which would buy up urban train and trolley lines in the United States (and attempted some Canada). From there trolleys were gradually killed off and disappeared. But who...

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bm138 CocaCola and Human Rights Violations Worldwide

bm138 CocaCola and Human Rights Violations Worldwide

June 28, 2006

To call it a soda company would be an understatement. There is no corner of the world where the name isn't known, and in the last decade, communities in places like Kerela, India, have shed new light on the business practices of the cocacola company. They site...

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