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Welcome to a global community of non-profit, independent investigative research, journalism and advocacy around issues of multinational corporate accountability and transparency. The community of sites provides tools and resources for critical vigilance and advocacy through a global effort of NGOs, journalists, activists, whistleblowers and academics. Through the following family of websites and social media, we seek to expose multinational corporations that that profit from war, fraud, environmental, human rights and other abuses, and to provide critical information to foster a more informed public and an effective democracy. CORPWATCH Non-profit investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance and to advocate for multinational corporate accountability and transparency. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations. www.corpwatch.org CROCODYL An evolving compendium of critical research, posted to the public domain as an aid to anyone working to hold corporations increasingly accountable. Crocodyl enables disparate groups and individuals to pool our knowledge about specific corporations in order to reduce the high cost of corporate research. www.crocodyl.org CROCTAIL A web-based interface for browsing information parsed from U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filings on several hundred thousand corporations that are publicly traded in the U.S. and their many domestic and foreign subsidiaries. croctail.corpwatch.org CORPWATCH OPEN API The Corpwatch API uses automated parsers to extract the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies’ 10-K filings with the SEC and provides a free, well-structured interface for programs to query and process the data. api.corpwatch.org WAR PROFITEERS A special section of .org, dedicated to original investigative research and reporting, as well as mainstream news archives, on companies profiting from war and disaster, including the use of private security firms by multinational corporations in their more controversial operations. www.warprofiteers.com SPIES FOR HIRE Our newest production, this database profiles the major actors in intelligence contracting. Drawing from research for his book "Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing" (Simon & Schuster 2008), investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn’t want us to know about - the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors. www.spiesforhire.org CORPWATCH RSS FEEDS Latest Updates The most recently added pages on this website Blog Recent entries from the Blog Features Our weekly exclusive reporting FEATURE VIDEO Learn more about ’s mission. top story Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal Moushumi Basu March 2nd, 2010 In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don’t want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back.”. ... READ MORE Photo by Pratap Chatterjee STAY CURRENT : JOIN US, WATCH US, FOLLOW...