The victims of crimes of corruption are diffuse, invisible, and often vulnerable: every dollar paid in bribes tilts the scales further against the most unfortunate in societies where fairness frequently goes unprized.
Brandon L. Garrett | Posted 05.02.2012
Corporations can be prosecuted as criminals and every year some get convicted of crimes. However, over the past decade the government has not stepped up corporate crime enforcement. In fact, the evidence is to the contrary.
John Blumenthal | Posted 03.13.2012
I wish we had this cool stuff in my country. But we don't. Instead, our government spends money on crippled people and old people and people with mental problems, and fixing old bridges and building highways and hospitals and things like this. We are not so cool as you.
Reuters | Jim Finkle | Posted 02.21.2012
* Researchers say flaws make systems vulnerable to attack by hackers * Siemens says first fixes will be released in January (Adds comm...
Karl Grossman | Posted 11.20.2011
The just-announced decision by Siemens to withdraw entirely from nuclear power is a significant declaration by a corporation about nuclear power and the world's potential energy future.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.20.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The Presi...
Mary Kincaid | Posted 10.28.2011
Today's selections include pieces by Gucci, Noritake, Fornasetti and Eero Aarnio. Be sure to check out the beautiful mid-century desk, the interesting magazine stand and beautiful Art Nouveau Theresienthal glasses set.
Mason Inman | Posted 10.11.2011
The stock market took a beating this week, after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. bonds -- but clean tech stocks have been falling even faster than the market as a whole.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 09.26.2011
If the current trajectory of Syrian street protests continue at their current, bloody pace, last Friday may be remembered as the epic day Syria's Assad dictatorial dynasty began a fateful, accelerating process of unraveling.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.21.2011
The United States might have millions of unemployed workers, but one company is having a hard time finding people that fit. Eric Spiegel, U.S. regi...
Arvind Ganesan | Posted 05.25.2011
Western universities are undoubtedly under pressure to find financial support, but this does not mean they should allow abusive and corrupt foreign dictators, officials or their families launder their images in exchange for money.
Stephen Downes | Posted 05.25.2011
"Connectivism" is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011
Consider where we are in comparison of the rest of the world. China has just introduced the world's fastest train, averaging speeds of 217 miles per hour.
Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON (AP) -- She was thought to be one of Germany's prized secret agents, described as beautiful and languid and capable of infiltrating an enemy ca...
Reza Pahlavi | Posted 05.25.2011
These are very troubling times for my country. The searing images on YouTube, Facebook and other media have brought the misery of the Iranian people and the brutality of the clerical regime into vivid perspective.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
My colleague wrote to hundreds of companies we exposed empowering Saddam Hussein with dual-usage technology, to see if anything had changed in their corporate behavior over the past decade.
Carlos Cagin | Posted 05.25.2011
While health care reform continues to be something of a national obsession, ad industry bigwigs were recently honored with the first-ever Clio awards ...
AFP | Sat Dec 26, 7:54 Am ET | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING (AFP) -- China on Saturday unveiled what it billed as the fastest rail link in the world -- a train connecting the modern cities of Guangzhou ...
Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011
A new study conducted by Siemens Building Technologies Inc. and McGraw-Hill Construction reports that 76% of the largest corporations in the U.S. are ...
Posted 05.25.2011
It's big, it's loud, it's... green? Paul Teutul Sr., founder of Orange County Choppers and star of American Chopper, was in Columbus Circle Wednesd...
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
Lavish gifts, briefcases full of cash, greased palms. Recently, several large, multinational corporations have been accused of violating the Foreign C...
AP | GEORGE FREY | Posted 05.25.2011
FRANKFURT, Germany — Industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Tuesday it will cut 16,750 jobs, or 4.2 percent of its global work force, to stream...
AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011
FRANKFURT, Germany — Conglomerate Siemens AG, wracked by a wide-ranging corruption scandal, will cut up to 4 percent of its work force worldwide...
AP | MARIA MARQUART | Posted 05.25.2011
MUNICH, Germany — A former Siemens AG manager on trial over alleged corruption and bribery testified Monday that "commissions" were paid to secu...
Chris Morgan Jones | Posted 05.04.2012