Multinational Monitor 1991 - The Ten Worst Corporations
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THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 1991 THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 1991 By Russell Mokhiber Alyeska American Home Products Clorox Du Pont Ethyl Corporation General Electric G. Heileman Brewing Kellogg's Hoffman La Roche Proctor & Gamble THE PAST YEAR has seen corporate crime and violence on the move at an accelerating pace--public corruption, environmental degradation, financial fraud, procurement fraud and occupational homicide are all on the increase. Criminal corporate collectivist action has inflicted injuries on the planet and its people that even the most evil of individuals acting alone could not dream of inflicting--the growing hole in the ozone layer, global warming, and increasing cancer rates, to name a few. Yet, many people in positions of authority continue to deny this reality and defy common sense. The vast majority of crime shows on television today, for example, focus on street crime, not corporate crime. Earlier this year, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote that "Young black males commit most of the crime in Washington, D.C." This statement is demonstrably false. In making it, Cohen ignored the research of corporate criminology, which has found that all corporate crime and violence combined inflicts far greater damage on society than all street crime combined. Apparently, Cohen did not take into account Exxon, International Paper, United Technologies, Weyerhauser, Pillsbury, Ashland Oil, Texaco, Nabisco, and Ralston-Purina, all convicted of environmental crimes in recent years. All of these convicted corporations operate in Washington, D.C. None of them are young black males. All of the 46 individuals convicted in the Operation Ill-Wind prosecution of defense procurement fraud were white males. The six corporations convicted in that operation--Cubic, Hazeltine, Loral, Sperry/Unisys, Teledyne, and Whittaker--are controlled by white males. And of the people convicted in the recent Wall Street insider trading scandals, the vast majority were white males. Cohen apparent
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