The Ten Worst Corporations
of 2003

Multiple Corporate Personality Disorder: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

As of this writing, of all of the U.S. corporate financial crimes committed that have cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the past couple of years, only two top level executives are in prison. That's it -- two. Now, ask yourself, if working class people committed crimes that cost hundreds of billions of dollars -- inconceivable as it is -- how many would be in prison? The whole lot of them.

We write The 10 Worst Corporations of the Year, not because we believe that by focusing attention on these crooks and miscreants we will actually change the situation. We do it hoping that we can bring attention to this embedded difficulty -- and move to a society where once again, we -- flesh and blood human beings -- are held responsible for our crimes and misdeeds.

Here are Multinational Monitor's 10 Worst Corporations of 2003, presented in alphabetical order... MORE>>

The U.S. Meets Defeat: Thwarted in the FTAA Negotiations, The U.S. Looks to Smaller Trade Deals

by Robert Weissman

U.S. plans to impose a NAFTA-style free trade deal on the entirety of the Western hemisphere were defeated in Miami in November, as Brazil outmaneuvered the United States in negotiations at the Ministerial meeting for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

But U.S. trade negotiators don't give up easily. Rebuffed in their effort to create a hemispheric agreement of their own design, they announced plans to commence a series of smaller trade agreements on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) model. MORE>>

Public Employees for the Environment: Defending Principle During the Polluters’ Ball

An Interview with Jeff Ruch

Jeff Ruch is a founder and executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an alliance of local, state and federal resource professionals in the United States. PEER is a service organization for people who work inside natural resource, pollution control and land management agencies, helping specialists who find themselves in the political cross-hairs being pressured to do things that are unethical, illegal or improper and who have no other means of support. MORE>>