Multinational Monitor
The Multinational Monitor is a bimonthly magazine founded by Ralph Nader in 1980. It is published by Essential Information. Although its primary focus is on analysis of corporations, it also publishes articles on labor issues, the environment, globalization, privatization, the global economy, and developing nations.
The magazine is non-profit and advertising-free.
Features
"The Top Ten Worst Corporations" is a feature published every November/December issue since 1992 and naming the top ten culprits of "corporate crime, negligence and dastardly behavior."
The 2005 list was BP, Delphi, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ford, Halliburton, KPMG, Roche, SUEZ, and W.R. Grace; the 2006 list was Abbott, Altria, BAE, Boeing, FirstEnergy, Kroger, Massey Energy, Pfizer, Smithfield, and Wal-Mart.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award
In satirical honor of the former treasury secretary under Bill Clinton and Harvard president, the Lawrence Summers Memorial Award is a bi-monthly award given to companies that take extraordinary leaps to justify unethical practices. When Lawrence Summers was an economist for the World Bank, he wrote a memorandum in 1991 which advocated transferring waste and dirty industries from industrialized to developing countries. Summers argued that economic logic supported the dumping of toxic waste in the countries with the lowest wages. Summers stated that the "...underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under polluted; their air quality is vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.” Summers later stated the memo was meant to be ironic.Summers eventually became Treasury Secretary during the Clinton administration and then president of Harvard University. [1]
Most recently the May/June award went to British American Tobacco who presented the argument, to the parliament of New South Wales that a smoking ban in pubs would lead to an increase in the drugging of smoker’s drink when they would leave for a cigarette.
References
- ^ Lawrence Summers Memorial Award “Multinationalmonitor.org”
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