strange that patterns of corporate abuse gets categorised as other than political first, then gets categorized as "anti-capitalist" (how is that not a politics) then gets dismissed as trivial without any insight at all offered as to why. all the more strange given that some of these corporations take this kind of allegation very seriously indeed--perhaps only for pr purposes, but nonetheless.
for example unocal (which was bought by chevron last year) settled a suit of of court regarding its use of the burmese military as "security" for a pipeline project once they lost a series of court cases and found they could be convicted in the states for the crimes committed by the military while in their employ. there is not much argument about what happened in burma: check it out if you for some goofy reason doubt that such abuses happen.
one indication of just how seriously some of these firms take the information that surfaces about their practices is that many have undertaken these strange "corporate social responsibility audits"
here is a link to a very large database of them posted by global reporting institute, which developed the protocols for these audits.
http://www.globalreporting.org/guide...&Submit=Search
the audits are quite detailed and some are even forthcoming about problems of information access, enforcing accountability and so forth.
you'll find ford, coca cola, nike, chevron and a few others featured above on this list. the audits are available if you click on the box at the far right of the boxes.
so if you find yourself with nothing particular to do and want to invest a few hours of your life reading stuff, here is your chance.