ALTERNET NAMES DOW AMONG THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2004 Dow Chemical is among “the year’s most egregious price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general miscreants,” say the editors of Alternet, citing a Dow statement on Bhopal that sounds as if it was written by the Yes Men. While Dow has no [...]

MANDIDEEP, BHOPAL (AFP) Jan 20, 2005 Thousands of students and farmers on Thursday surrounded Pepsi and Coca-Cola factories in a “Quit India” campaign, accusing the US giants of selling soft drinks laced with pesticides. They lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a five-kilometre (three-mile) chain around a Pepsi bottling plant at this central Indian township, an AFP [...]

Congressman Pallone’s remarks to Congress about his bill are here. Here you can read the Midland Daily News editorial and the ICJB’s polite rejoinder correcting the chain of factual errors on which the editorial is based. Bhopal.Net, finding itself unable to be as diplomatic as its colleagues in the ICJB, declines to make further comment. [...]

Faced with the failure of “Responsible Care” those PR boys have come good. Their big idea? “Really Responsible Care” $120,000,000 could do a lot of good to a lot of people. But instead of, for example, providing clean drinking water to the people of Bhopal, or creating a safe environment for the trailer folk of [...]