THE G8 DEAL HAS OFFERED A LOT TO CORPORATIONS BUT VERY LITTLE TO THE POOR.

Corporate Watch exposes the fake deal struck at the G8 summit at Glenegales:
>Swindles on aid and debt
>Concrete support for the corporatons that are making Africa poor.

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This will be published as a centre spread to Corporate Watch's August/September newsletter. Other stories include:

China's Corporate Babies
As the Chinese economy goes into overdrive, creating an economic superpower, we present a Corporate Watchers' guide to what to look out for in the new transnational China, including a run down of its biggest corporations.

Corruption in Iraq: AKA 'The normal way to do business'
The corporate invaders of Iraq have found themselves mired in corruption, but according to most Iraqi businessmen and women, the occupation itself has heaped upon the economy new layers of patronage and nepotism. This article looks at how the old rich of Iraq are working with the new occupation authorities to cash in on the 'reconstruction' bonanza.

Other newsletter stories include:

Sea Shells and Pipe Dreams: Shell's involvement with the Mayo-Galway Mainland Gas Pipeline

Weir plc -- Reaping the Benefits of War

Your Debt Drives the Economy

Who's Pulling the EU lobby strings?

Panda-ing to the Soya Barons?

Direct Action Floods Iceland

Review: The Corporation, second edition

Babylonian Times

Diary

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