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Agribusiness

Agribusiness Accountability Initiative
Center for Food Safety
Center for Rural Affairs
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (AFL-CIO)
Food, Inc. (report by UK Food Group)
Global Exchange (chocolate and coffee)
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
International Center for Technology Assessment
National Family Farm Coalition
Organic Consumers Association
Organization for Competitive Markets
Pesticide Action Network
United Food & Commercial Workers
Western Organization of Resource Councils
 

Antitrust

American Antitrust Institute
Center for Corporate Policy
Cropchoice.com
European Fair Trade Association
Fair Fight in the Marketplace
Federal Trade Commission
New Rules Project
Oligopoly Watch
Organization for Competitive Markets
 

Auto Industry

Article by Jack Doyle (author of Taken for a Ride)
Automotive News
Center for Auto Safety
Consumer Reports auto page
Ecology Center of Ann Arbor Auto Project
Jumpstart Ford
Public Citizen's Auto Safety web page
U.S. DOE/EPA Fuel Economy web page
Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles page
United Auto Workers
Ward's Auto World
What Would Jesus Drive?
 

Banking

ACORN
Center for Responsible Lending
Citigroup Campaign (RAN)
Consumer Federation of America
Cornerhouse: Campaigners' Guide to Financial Institutions (PDF)
Derivatives Study Center
Financial Markets Center
Greenlining Institute
Inner City Press/Community on the Move
Institutional Investor Online
Left Business Observer
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
National Wildlife Federation - Finance and Environment Web Page
Private Finance (d-base of public/private partnership projects)
Rainforest Acction Network (Citigroup)
Truth in Lending campaign - targets Providian for predatory lending
Village Banking
 

Blowing the Whistle

Government Accountability Project
Integrity International
International Council of Online Professionals
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
 

Children and Corporations

Center for Commercial Free Public Education
Child Labor Coalition
Commercial Alert
Free The Children (FTC)
 

Corporate - Funded, - Influenced or - Sympathetic Think Tanks

Accuracy in Media
Adam Smith Institute
American Enterprise Institute
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Bionomic Institute
Brookings Institution
Cato Institute
Center for Independent Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Discovery Institute
Foundation for Economic Education
Fraser Institute
Frontiers of Freedom Institute/People for the USA
Heartland Institute
Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institute
Hudson Institute
Institute for Justice
Institute for Policy Innovations
International Center for Pension Reform
Leadership Institute
Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
National Anxiety Center
National Center for Policy Analysis
National Center for Public Policy Research
Non-Profit Groups Receiving Corporate Funding
Pacific Legal Foundation
Pacific Research Institute
Political Economy Research Center
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Reason Foundation
State Policy Networks's database of state-focused think tanks
The National Forum Foundation
The Objectivist Center
The RAND Corporation
Washington Legal Foundation
 

Corporate Campaigns and Company-specific Watch Dogs

All State Insurance Sucks
All State Sucks
Amway Sucks
AOL Watch
Campaign Strategy
Chase Bank Sucks
Coke - Campaign for Justice at Coca-Cola
Coke Spotlight
Corporate Campaign Inc.
Discover Card Sucks
E-toys Sucks
Eco Pledge
Home Depot Sucks
I Hate Starbucks
IBM Employees Union
MBNA Sucks
McSpotlight
Microsoft Sucks
Mobil Sucks
Monsanto Sucks
Monsanto Watch
Netscape Sucks
No Amazon
Norwegian Cruise Lines
Organic Consumers Association - Monsanto Watch
P&G Kills
Pacific Bell Sucks
Providian Financial
Sprint Sucks
Starbucked
Stop WMX
Taco Bell - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Target Sucks Blog
Tenet Monitor
Terminix Consumer Alert
The Unofficial American Express Consumer Opinion Site
Ticketbastard
Truth in Lending - Stop Providian's Predatory Lending
US West Sucks
Wal-Mart Sucks
Wal-Mart Survivor
Wal-Mart Watch
Yahoo! Sucks
 

Corporate Crime

Business Crime Control (German)
Center for Corporate Policy
Citizen Works
Corporate Crime Reporter
TRAC (gov't data)
 

Corporate Directories

Companies (Online Search Engine)
Company Annual Reports On-Line (CAROL)
Corporate Agribusiness Research Project (CARP)
Dow Jones
Hoover's
Public Information Center (PIN)
SEC Report for US Corporations
Thomas Register (Manufacturers)
 

Corporate Front Groups and Corporate-Backed Groups

Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy
Allliance for America
American Council on Science and Health
American Farm Bureau
American Land Rights Association
American Smokers Alliance (ASA)
American Tort Reform Association
BeerTax.com
Calorie Control Council
Citizens Assembly
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Consumer Alert
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
Defenders of Property Rights
Environmental Working Group - CLEAR
ePublic Relations
Food Watch
Greenwash Information and Resources
Guidestar.org (basic financial data, IRS statements on non-profits)
Intentional Climate Change Partnership
Junk Science
Keep America Beautiful
National Right to Work Legal Foundation
National Safety Council
Pacific Legal Foundation
Research Internet Domain Name Owners
The Natural Heritage Institute
TruthAboutTrade.com
USA Engage
Wisonsin Citizens Assembly
 

Corporate Globalization

50 Years Is Enough
Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC)
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Center for Economic and Policy Research
Corp Watch - US
Corporate Accountability Action
Corporate Europe Observatory
Corporate Watch - US - Globalization and Corporate Rule
Development Gap
Focus on the Global South
Global Exchange
Halliburton Watch
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Institute for Policy Studies
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Mobilization for Global Justice
NGONet
Peoples' Global Action
Public Citizen - Global Trade Watch
Stop FTAA
Third World Network
 

Corporate Power - General

Center for Corporate Policy
Center for Corporate Policy
Corporate Predators (Mokhiber/Weissman columns)
Corpwatch
Endgame (George Draffan's links page)
Gangs of America (download the book)
Halliburton Watch
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Reclaim Democracy
They Rule (diagram interlocking directorates)
Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann
 

Corporate Prison Industry

Eye on Wackenhut
Prison Activits Resource Center
Prison Moratorium Project
Stop the ACA
 

Corporate Trade Associations

Fast Track
National Association of Manufacturers
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
US Chamber of Commerce
US Council for International Business
USA Engage
Washington International Trade Association
 

Corporate Watch Dogs - Global

Alliance for Democracy
Baobab's Corporate Power Information Center
Business & Human Rights: A Resource Center
Campaign ExxonMobil
Center for Advancement of Public Policy
Corp Watch - US
Corporate Accountability International
Corporate Criminals
Corporate Europe Observatory
Corporate Predators
Corporate Watch - UK
Ending Corporate Governance
Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)
Executive Paywatch
Halliburton Watch
IATP Trade Observatory
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
The Polaris Instititute
Transnationale - English
Transparency International
 

Corporate Welfare

Benjamin Banneker Center
Cato Institute
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)
Citizens for Tax Justice
Common Cause (paying to play)
Corporate Welfare Information Center
Friends of the Earth - Green Scissors
Project on Government Oversight
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action
Testimony of Ralph Nader on Corporate Welfare
Thoreau Institute Subsidies Anonymous
 

Defense/Military

Arms Sales Monitoring Project
Arms Trade News (Council for a Livable World)
Arms Trade Resource Center
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Center for Defense Information
Center for International Policy
Center for Security Policy
Covert Action Quarterly
Defense Link
Defense Technical Information Center
Economic Conversion Project (ECP)
Federation of American Scientists
Federation of American Scientists - Arms Transfer Working Group
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Powers In Space
International Association of Machinists
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jane's
Military Spending Working Group
Peace Action
Periscope (open source info on defense and military)
Stop Star Wars
Stratfor
Taxpayers Against Fraud
Taxpayers for Common Sense
United Auto Workers
Why We Fight
 

Drugs/Pharmaceuticals

ACT UP! Philadelphia
Affordable Medicine
AIDS Action Council
Breast Cancer Action
Consumer Project on Technology
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Health Action International
National Women's Health Network (NWHN)
Public Citizen - Health Research Group
 

Government Information About Corporations

Center for Responsive Politics (Campaign Finance Research)
DOE Energy Information Adminstration Statistics
EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online
Excluded Parties List System (companies banned from federal contracts)
Federal Procurement Data System
Federal Web Locator
FedWorld
Freedom of Information Act Guide (Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press)
National Association of State Procurement Officials
National Institute on Money in State Politics
Public Information Center (PIN)
Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
Report Gallery
Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press
SEC Private Regulated Corporations (EDGAR)
State and Local Government Information
Syracuse University Federal Enforcement Database
Using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
 

Patents

Bust Patents
Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)
Consumer Project on Technology (cptech.org)
Delphion - Intellectual Property Network
IP Matters
Micro Patent
Nolo's Downloads
Patent Watch Project (ICTA)
United States Patent and Trademark Office
 

Public Relations

ePublic Relations
Influence.biz (research lobbyists)
O'Dwyers
PR Newswire
PR Watch - Center for Media and Democracy
 

Public Relations - Industry Sites

On Line Public Relations Web page
PR Watch - Public Relations Industry
 

Researching Corporations

About.com (research companies by region)
Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite
Bloomberg
Bloomberg UK
British Library online
Business History Conference
Business Information Sources on the Internet (directory of business resources)
Campaigners' Guide to Researching Corporations (Cornerhouse)
Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics
Center for Comprehensive Corporate Research (CCCR) Guide to Researching Corporations
Center for Cooperative Research
Center for Responsive Politics (Campaign Finance Research)
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
CEO Express
Companies (Online Search Engine)
Corp Watch - US
Corporate Crime Reporter
Corporate Finance Network (financial research)
Corporate Information
Corporate Rankings (Open Directory list of different rankings)
Corporate Record
Corporate Research Project
Corporate Watch - UK
CorpTech (for profiles of high-tech companies)
Dialog (database search service -- you have to pay to use)
Dialog (free trial period or one-time purchases available)
Disinfopedia (collaborative research project)
Documentary Videos
Dow Jones
Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)
EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online d-base
Essential Information - Search
Factiva (subscription-based search service of news publications)
FAST CD (research corporate labor relations history)
Federal Lobbyist Online (Senate d-base)
Feedster
Financial Times (Companies)
Find Law
Follow the Money (research state campaign $)
Freedom of Information Act Guide (Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press)
Freedom of Information Center
Gale Research (directories of experts)
Global Infrastructure Projects Database (U.S. Dept. of Commerce Internation Trade Admin.)
Green-Watch (research corporate front groups)
GuideStar (researching nonprofits and front groups)
Hemscott (search profiles of British co's).
Hoover's
Influence.biz (tracks lobbyists and PR firms)
Infrastructure World (free/register; elect power, energy, telecoms, water)
Institute for Global Communications (IGC) - Data Center
Integrity in Science (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
Integrity In Science, CSPI's Database of Corporate-funded Scientists
Interlocking Directorates - Corporate Library report
Internet Archive (to find pages that have changed or disappeared)
Investext (free trial period or one-time purchases available)
Investext analyst report archives
IRE Beat Source Guide
Job Tracker (AFL-CIO) - research who's outsourcing jobs
Knowx (has feature on executive affiliations)
Legal Dockets Online
Lexis-Nexis (fee-based records and news search service)
Library of Congress Business Resources Page
Mbendi's Companies of Africa
National Institute on Money in State Politics
National Tobacco Documents Library
National Trade Professional Associations of the United States
Oligopoly Watch
Open Director Project links to researching corps
Orient Business Express (database of companies)
Oxford Analytics (service of Oxfor U. -- by industrial sector)
PACER (U.S. Court Records)
PoliticalMoneyLine
Powerize.com
Pretrieve (public records search engine)
Private Finance (d-base of public/private partnership projects)
Private Finance (search public/private partnership d-base)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers (search newspaper archives)
Public Citizen - Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Public Records Online
Researching Corporate/Law Firm Ties
Responsible Shopper
Search Systems (thousands of free, searchable public records)
Socrates Social Responsibility Database
Sourcewatch
The Corporate Library
The Data Center
Thomas Register (Manufacturers)
Transnational Law Database (Center for Transnational Law - Cologne)
Transnationale - English
UN Centre on Transnational Corporations (maintained by former UNCTC staff)
Vickers Stock Research
Wall Street Research Net
Washington Researchers
Yahoo Finance
 

Universities and Corporations

Campus Greens
Center for Campus Organizing
Center for Commercial Free Public Education
Defending Science
Integrity in Science (Center for Science in the Public Interest - Research Conflicts of Interest)
Integrity In Science, CSPI's Database of Corporate-funded Scientists
Movement for Democracy and Education
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
The Nader 2000 Campus Organizing Guide
United Students Against Sweatshops
 
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