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• BAE Systems - Criticizes Europe's largest arms exporter as greedy and a supporter of dictatorships.
• Baker Book House - Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly.
• Dow Jones - Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
• Edumacation - DirectBuy - Collecting articles, complaints, consumer comments, and reports of litigation involving DirectBuy, formerly known as UCC TotalHome and United Consumers Club.
• FAIR - News Corp / Fox - Ongoing collection of reports on bias by Fox News. By the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
• False Advertising by The Bosley Medical Institute - 10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
• General Dynamics and TRW - Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondoggle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
• Home Depot Sucks - Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites.
• International Paper Hall of Shame - OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
• LeaseComm - Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
• Made in China - National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses.
• Mitsubishi! - Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
• Multinational Monitor - Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
• Net Sol Sucks - A collection of links to information about problems with Network Solutions/NetSol, and alternatives to NetSol.
• Oil is Thicker than Blood - The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan.
• Report Scams Here - The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
• ServiceMaster Consumer Issues - Information about ServiceMaster and its subsidiaries including lawsuits, governmental investigations, employee comments, and consumer complaints.
• Sony Anti Environmental Efforts - A leaked document shows Sony has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting their pressure to reduce toxic waste in the manufacturing of electronics.
• Stop Waste Management - Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray.
• Topsites LLC and MyDirectory LLC - An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details.
• Virgin Air Crew Lies - Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
• For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing - "Vitaly Borker welcomes customer complaints, saying they vault his business higher in Internet search results." [New York Times] (November 26, 2010)
• Guardian - The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow - States that AOL paid a $3.5 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the government financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case. (June 28, 2002)
• Six Firms Added to Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit - Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie and Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands. (May 01, 2000)
• The China Lobby's Campaign for Two-Way Trade with China - Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor] (June 01, 1997)

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