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WHAT’S NEW ON CORPWATCH - Target: Wal-Mart Lite
 


Date: 21 April 2006

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Target: Wal-Mart Lite
Kari Lydersen
April 20th, 2006

Shopping in a Target store, you know you?re not in Wal-Mart. But, critics say that in terms of working conditions, sweatshop-style foreign suppliers, and effects on local retail communities, big box Target stores are very much like Wal-Mart, just in a prettier package.
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13508

TECHNOLOGY

US: AOL Blocks Critics’ E-Mails
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13489

US: Your Tax Dollars at Work … for Viacom
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13478

US: E-waste dump of the world
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13497

US: AT&T Seeks to Hide Spy Docs
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13479

FINANCIAL SERVICES

US: The Enron Standard
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13488

US: N.Y.S.E. Executive Tells of Altering Documents to Hide Grasso’s Full Payout
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13470

US: Tyco Will Pay $50 Million to Settle Case With S.E.C.
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13503

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

US: Exxon Chairman Got Retirement Package Worth at Least $398 Million
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13486

US: EXECUTIVE PAY; C.E.O. Pay Keeps Rising, And Bigger Rises Faster
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13487

ENVIRONMENT

US: Next Stage of Fox River, Green Bay PCB Cleanup Funded
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13494

UK: UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms’ Role in Huge Arctic Project
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13505

HEALTH

US: Experts Defining Mental Disorders Are Linked to Drug Firms
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13510

US: Study: Health Insurers Are Near-Monopolies
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13504

US: Private contractor dropping eligible Texas kids from health coverage
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13499

GERMANY: EU to take Germany to court over tobacco ads
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13477

WAR/ DISASTER PROFITEERING

KATRINA: Army Corps overpaid on Katrina classrooms contract
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13473

IRAQ: US Firms Suspected of Bilking Iraq Funds
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13481

WORLD: Study Faults US health effort in Iraq, Afghanistan
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13511

US: Attorney Pursues Iraq Contractor Fraud
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13506

IRAQ: U.S. Contractor Bloom Pleads Guilty
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13501

MINING

MADAGASCAR: Rio’s dirty washing is on show
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13498

UK: Eight arrests after goldmine raid
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13493

HUMAN RIGHTS

US: The Case Against Coke
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13490

WTO

AFRICA: U.S. Farm Subsidies Hurting Africa’s Development
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13507

MEDIA

US: America’s Fake News Pandemic
corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13468

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