The System Implodes: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.

In the 20 years that we've published our annual list, we've covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We've reported on some really bad stuff - from Exxon's Valdez spill to Union Carbide and Dow's effort to avoid responsibility for the Bhopal disaster; from oil companies coddling dictators (including Chevron and CNPC, both profiled this year) to a bank (Riggs) providing financial services for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; from oil and auto companies threatening the future of the planet by blocking efforts to address climate change to duplicitous tobacco companies marketing cigarettes around the world by associating their product with images of freedom, sports, youthful energy and good health.

But we've never had a year like 2008.

The financial crisis first gripping Wall Street and now spreading rapidly throughout the world is, in many ways, emblematic of the worst of the corporate-dominated political and economic system that we aim to expose with our annual 10 Worst list. Here is how.

Full article here

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
That was the most difficult read - to be honest I just couldn't even get thru it in detail, just a skim, because of the anger that was building up inside of me. I have bookmarked that site for future reference.
A great service they are doing - just too much evil to handle all at one go.
Thanks for posting this info.
An article like that should be "front page" of every MSM outlet.
Star and Flag!

Diderot had the right idea... string the bastards up with each others guts.

actually he said:

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

but it could easily be amended to read the last CEO is strangled with the guts of the last __________ fill in the blank... stock broker, investment banker, accountant etc. All are good candidates.


[edit on 24-11-2008 by grover]