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Ongoing collection of reports on bias by Fox News. By the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
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FAIR Archives: Browse by Media Outlet Personality Bombings show right was right all along, pundits say (7/11/05) Extra The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism: Few raise alarms when media bigs attack Jews (May/June 2005) By Steve Rendall Action Alert: O'Reilly We Do Not Speculate Here 6/10/05) Action Alert: Tucker...Criticizes Europe's largest arms exporter as greedy and a supporter of dictatorships.
http://www.angloarabia.com/
Chevron Oil has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil rigs.
http://www.sfbg.com/News/33/07/Worldview/
Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0...8/9_41/63058111/p1/article.jhtml
English version of German activist site that publishes information about firms they've found that violate human rights or basic environmental practices.
http://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/Aktuelles/ENGLISH/english.html
A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet (particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites.
http://www.tobaccofromspain.verycorrupt.co.uk/
Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
http://www.NewYorkCityTransit.com
Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute.
http://www.house.gov/commerce/TobaccoDocs/documents.html
A leaked document shows Sony has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting their pressure to reduce toxic waste in the manufacturing of electronics.
http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/sonyspy.html
10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
http://www.bosleymedicalviolations.com
Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0288_05.html
Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor]
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0697.07.html
States that AOL paid a $3.5 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the government financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4450205,00.html
A high school cheerleader hits upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports games, with labels bearing her school logo. But her plan runs into trouble when Pepsi gets wind of it. With news and reader comments.
http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/11/04/15534812
Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
http://www.dowethics.com/
Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly.
http://www.mb-soft.com/believe/txn/marburg.htm
Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it.
http://www.endpredatorylending.org/
Alleges human rights abuses and complicity in killing Nigerian civilians, calling on World Bank to discriminate in its investments.
http://www.seen.org/pages/reports/chadcam04_28_00.shtml
Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident.
http://www.corporatecrimefighters.com
Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
http://www.virginaircrewlies.com/
Message Board containing comments from employees who work at The Fresh Market chain of Grocery Stores located in the southeastern U.S.
http://pub86.ezboard.com/femployeemessageboardfrm1
An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details.
http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/topsites_topsitez_us.htm
National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/...nareport/table_of_contents.shtml
Archived documentation and links by the National Labor Committee about abusive factories that produce Liz Claiborne clothing.
http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/archive/liz/
OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
http://www.iplexingtonplant.org
Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
http://www.mitsubishisucks.com
1500 Canadian Airlines retirees fight to have Air Canada reinstate their travel benefits.
http://www.factor6070.ca/
The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan.
http://mathaba.net/sudan/bloodoil.htm
Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era subsidiaries, and suspicious name change.
http://www.insurance-alert.net/
True stories from the former employees of the now-defunct iMind Education Systems.
http://www.imind.com/
Read student opinions and experiences.
http://uopsucks.com/
Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
http://www.gothcon.com/
Tells about the practices of the Who's Who Historical Society, a company of Gibraltar Publishing: What they promise, how they recruit members, what the results of membership are and how they try to prevent members from cancelling their membership.
http://www.internationalwhoswho.de/
Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
http://www.knology.net/~olefogie/INDEX.HTM
Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray.
http://www.stopwmx.org/
Discusses questionable conduct of a collection firm and shows how to deal with it.
http://www.geocities.com/presslerclub
Site by a group of former Apple Computer Authorized Resellers suing the company for fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition and false advertising.
http://www.tellonapple.org
The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
http://www.scam.com
Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
http://members.tripod.com/~close_hls/
Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites.
http://www.homedepotsucks.com/
Complaints against Paypal and eBay.
http://www.suepaypal.org/
Alleges that AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and US Federal Judge James M. Ideman conspired to murder filmmaker Gyorgy Fodor. Sign a petition to President Bush. Place a bet to win a bribe. [Note: Some disturbing photos.]
http://www.uspresident.net/
Campaign to tell Ford Motor Company to manufacturing the most fuel-inefficient cars in America and stop fueling America's oil addiction and global warming.
http://www.jumpstartford.com/home/
Alleges that this online payment processor is not all it appears to be.
http://www.greenzapscam.com/
Discussion board covering varied topics such as financial fraud, consumer issues and alleged internet scams.
http://www.scamfraudalert.com/