April 6, 2011: News in brief – Watching the Corporations

 [responsivevoice_button] -G4S wins £100m Olympics security contract -BP to resume drilling

The countdown to the Olympic con continues

[responsivevoice_button] As the London Olympics approaches, and more and more corporations

The biomedical scientist: Interview with Frank Wood

[responsivevoice_button] Frank Wood is a biomedical scientist at King’s College Hospital

Air Europa

Air Europa reluctant to talk about the ‘delicate subject’ of forcible

The true cost of tickets for the Olympics: community and workplace organising?

[responsivevoice_button] Official prestige tickets for the 2012 Olympics, which include food

New harmful pathogen found in Roundup Ready GM crops

[responsivevoice_button] In February, a senior scientist at the United States Department

New business opportunities: Deportation hostels

[responsivevoice_button] In May 2010, the new coalition government committed to ending

Update on the GM industry in the UK and beyond

[responsivevoice_button] Controversial GM plans that will allow genetically modified crops to

The ‘Organised Irresponsibility’ of GM corporations and a new generation of GM activism.

[responsivevoice_button] Genetically Modified (GM) crops are on the rise within the

Recent resistance to the Olympics along the Lea Valley Canal

[responsivevoice_button] Members of the Counter Olympics Network (CON) have recently been

Cut the crap: The cuts as profit opportunities

[responsivevoice_button] Cut the crap: The cuts as profit opportunities   The

International commodification of ecosystems: in association with ‘Business As Usual’

[responsivevoice_button] The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is

U-Turn on Carbon Capture and Storage

[responsivevoice_button] U-Turn on Carbon Capture and Storage The conservative party pledged,

Deportees get new escorts: Reliance

[responsivevoice_button] A multimillion-pound contract to manage ‘detainee escort services’ on behalf

The matrix of the Philippine mining industry

[responsivevoice_button] This introductory article was written for Corporate Watch by activists