Corporate Predators

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Introduction by Ralph Nader

Part I: Corporate Crime and Violence
No Mind, No Crime
Cracking Down on Corruption
No Shame, No Blame
On Foreign Bribery, Justice is Out to Lunch
The Competitor is our friend, the Consumer our Enemy
Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Blue Criminal
Accident or Manslaughter
The Academic Siberia of Corporate Criminology

Part II: The Corporate Attack on Democracy
Clean Food, or Irradiated Dirty Food?
Visa and the Anti-Child Support Act
Big Tobacco's Ruse
Avoiding the Evil of Two Lessers
The Citibank-Travelers Steamroller
Boom and Bailout
An Allergy to Democracy
Stacking the Decks

Part III: The Global Hunt for Mega-Profits
Sanctioning Burma, Sanctioning the United States
The Bailout of Banks
Truly Retiring the Marlboro Man
When the People Speak, the Corporations Squeak
The Suharto-U.S. Corporate Connection
U.S. Drug Imperialism
The IMF Corporate Welfare Machine
Ending Wall Street's Reign

Part IV: Corporation Nation
Multinational Monitor's
       10 Worst Corporations of the Year--1997
Corporate Fronts: An Epidemic with a Cure
The Corporate Takeover of a Consumer Group
The More You Watch, The Less You Know
A Nation of Spectators?
A Tale of Two Mainers
When It Comes to Cancer, We're Not All in It Together
Pulp Non-Fiction: The Ecologist Shredded
Neutron Jack Welch
Corporation Nation
The Price We Pay: Multinational Monitor's
       10 Worst Corporations of 1998

Part V: The Big Boys Unite
Merger Mania in the 1990s
Record Levels of Corporate Mergers
Citicorp's Uncivil Corporate disobedience
Merger Mania Hits Oil
One World, One Company?

Part VI: Commercialism Run Amok
Smithsonian for Sale?
Brinkley Shills for Corporate Criminal
The Corporate Takeover of Public Space
Saving or Trashing America's Treasures?
Where the Wild Things Are
Wal-Mart and the Strip-Mining of America
Progress Without People

Part VII: Of Sweatshops and Unionbusting
Fighting Back on Workers' Comp
Union-Buster Memorial Airport
Goodbye, Roberta: The CBS-Nike Connection
Michael Eisner vs. Vietnamese Laborers
NAFTAshock

Part VIII: Do I Have to Arrest You?
Corporations and the Law
Judge to GM: Do I Have to Arrest You?
The Corporate Seminar for Judges
Destroy the Dummy, Destroy the Child
First Amendment Follies
Holding Gun Corporations Responsible
Democracy and Product Liability Deform
Dissolving Unocal
Smoked Out: The Attorneys General Cave In to Big Tobacco

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