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Multinational Corporations

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Multinational Corporations are the main actors driving economic globalisation which thrives when market forces are de-regulated, allowing essential goods and services to be allocated by commercial activity, not human need. The result is a world economy that favours affluent countries and their corporate interests whilst neglecting those living in extreme poverty who the market fails to reach.

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The Corporate Benefits of an Agrarian Crisis

The push for more trade to solve the food price crisis is actually aimed at bringing more profits for a handful of multinational corporations rather than providing food to hungry millions, says Devinder Sharma.

 
Our Diet of Destruction

Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to satisfy global demand for soya. But how did this crop and a handful of others come to dominate our diet so completely? In an extract from her new book, Felicity Lawrence investigates the faceless trading giants who really decide what goes on our plates.

 
Corporations Grab Climate Genes
Monopoly control of crop genes is a bad idea under any circumstances - but in the midst of a global food crisis with climate change looming, such control is unacceptable.

 
Global Poverty: More Big Business Is Not the Solution
PM Gordon Brown may be passionate about reducing poverty, but he remains unwilling to address the real problem of 'business as usual'.

 
The Corporate Begging Bowl

They bleat about the free market, then insist that we subsidise them, writes George Monbiot.

 
Philip Morris International Commences New Plans to Spread Death and Disease

Philip Morris International today starts business as an independent company, no longer affiliated with Philip Morris USA or the parent company, Altria. Philip Morris USA will sell Marlboro and other cigarettes in the United States. Philip Morris International will trample over the rest of the world. 

 
Playing with Children's Lives: Big Tobacco in Malawi

Sickly and malnourished, Kirana Kapito began his working life on a large commercial tobacco estate in Malawi's northern region. The farms sell their produce on the country's auction floors directly to international corporations including Limbe Leaf Tobacco, majority owned by the Swiss-registered Continental Tobacco Company and U.S.-based Alliance One Tobacco.

 
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