STWR - Share The World's Resources

In response to charges of human rights violations in Nigeria, Shell has made one of the largest recorded corporate payouts. Human rights lawyers view the settlement as a step towards international businesses being made accountable for the social and environmental impact of their actions.  

Saving the biosphere cannot be left to goodwill and greenwash from oil companies like Shell, and governments cannot let them drift into whatever fields they find profitable, regardless of the consequences for people or the environment, writes George Monbiot.

Recent efforts by the British Government to stop robbery on the high seas obscures a more menacing form of theft - the UK's attractive portfolio of  tropical and temperate islands in which pinstriped pirates can bury their treasure, argues George Monbiot.

2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year. The financial crisis has revealed that corporations, if left to their own devices, will destroy themselves and the system that nurtures them, writes Robert Weisman.

Working Americans are reeling from the "unintended consequences" of the relentless war against regulation. The deregulated futures market benefits the remaining top two investment banks and one industry - Big Oil, writes Antonia Juhasz.

The banking crisis has diverted attention from the billions of dollars of public money being spent to help car manufacturers go green. The greenest thing governments could do is to allow these multinationals to go under, says George Monbiot.

The claims that a bailout of Wall Street would mark unprecendented "American Socialism" are unfounded. Rather, the $700 billion in banking subsidies rejected by the US Congress are as American as apple pie and obesity, argues George Monbiot.