10 Companies Vying for 2013 Corporate Hall of Shame: What’s Your Pick for the Worst Offender?

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/9-companies-vying-2013-corporate-hall-shame



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1. Walmart

It’s been tough year for Walmart, what with tens of thousands of people protesting against the corporation at 1,500 events on Black Friday. But it’s been an even worse year for its workers who have had to risk arrest and their jobs for engaging in civil disobedience to expose Walmart’s low wages and dehumanizing corporate culture.

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2. ExxonMobil

The oil giant has a big mess to clean up after its Pegasus pipeline gushed a minimum of 5,000 barrels of heavy crude from the Canadian tar sands all over a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood in March. Nine months later the community is still reeling.

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3. Koch Industries

Where to begin? The Koch brothers have spent nearly $50 million funding climate deniers and blocking action on climate change according to a report by Greenpeace. And the privately held company operates in a shroud of secrecy.

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4. Proctor and Gamble

P&G makes cosmetics, personal care products and cleaning products. It's been lambasted for failing to remove ingredients from products that may cause cancer or reproductive harm, although it did consent earlier this year to removing the carcinogen 1,4 dioxane from Tide and other laundry detergents. Was the baby step big enough?

[DeSwiss]

1. All are worthy......

...of the Annual DeSwiss Five Puke Crown:

K&R

[xchrom]

2. !

[Scuba]

4. That seems a bit over the top. You should edit or delete your post.

[xchrom]

5. +1

[dawg]

8. That would include me, as well as most everyone with a pension or ...

Mutual funds that invest in equities.

Small shareholders do not empower these corporations. Their customers do.

[searchingforlight]

6. Monsanto would be my #1

but all of them are despicable.

[Brainstormy]

7. Ditto

Monsanto hands down.

[solarhydrocan]

9. Not a single Pharma corp?

Surely at least one qualifies


Johnson & Johnson agrees to settle with SEC & DOJ for $70 million
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/huge-bribery-fine

GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/03/glaxosmithkline-fined-bribing-doctors-pharmaceuticals

Teva says it may have violated bribery laws around the world
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/teva-says-it-may-have-violated-bribery-laws-around-world/2013-11-01

Bribery 'routine' for foreign pharmaceutical firms in China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23662909

Drug Company Accused of Bribing Doctors
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=131602

Bribery And Corruption In The Pharmaceutical Sector
http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=11025

Talk about a Drug War...

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. K&R If nothing else, this list proves that we need to reduce the number

of giant corporations by a lot more than ten. Ten can't even scratch the surface of the inner circle.

I think it was Reich that said, "I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one".