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Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine (Updated)

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Anthony Watts, Climate Denial, Fred Singer, Desmogblog, Charles Koch, Microsoft, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Altria Group, Green News
Brendan DeMelle

Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart of the climate denial machine - its current plans, many of its funders, and details that confirm what DeSmogBlog and others have reported for years.

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Cigarette Maker Launches Tobacco Rights Website

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Business News, Big Tobacco, Video, Tobacco Industry, Altria Group Tobacco Rights Website, Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Tobacco Rights Website, Altria Group, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. -- Cigarette maker Altria Group is giving consumers a new place to find out about tobacco-related public policy issues. The owner of th...

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Notorious Company Changes Its Name Again

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Valuejet, Airtran, Blackwater Guards, Video, Blackwater Security, Blackwater, Company Name Changes, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater Name Change, Philip Morris, XE Services, Blackwater Investigation, Altria Group, Business News

An infamous company is attempting a complete brand makeover -- again. The private security firm formerly known as Blackwater and most recently kno...

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Tobacco Giant Ordered To Pay Millions In Lawsuit

AP | By TIM FOUGHT | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Big Tobacco, Video, Big-Tobacco-Supreme-Court, Business News, Philip Morris Lawsuit, Oregon Supreme Court, Philip Morris, Philip Morris Oregon Lawsuit, Altria Group, Business News

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tobacco company Philip Morris USA Inc. must pay Oregon 60 percent of a $79.5 million award in a long-running lawsuit filed by the fa...

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Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Tobacco Companies, Rj-Reynolds, Nicotine, Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, Smoking, Slideadbigshot, Fda, Commonwealth Brands, Cigarette Warning Labels, The-Family-Smoking-Prevention-and-Tobacco-Control-Act, Video, Cigarettes, Lorillard, Liggett-Group, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Health and Human Services, Tobacco, Food and Drug Administration, Altria Group, Phillip Morris, Business News

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press)-- Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette lab...

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The Biggest Companies You've Never Heard Of (PHOTOS)

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aramark, Biggest Companies, Tiaa-Cref, Slidepollajax, Yum Brands, Tjx, Ingram-Micro, 24/7wallst, Altria Group, Phillip Morris, Business News

By 24/7 Wall St.: The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names ...

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Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Tobacco, Philip Morris, Smoking, Tobacco Litigation, Emphysema, Florida, Altria Group, Business News

MIAMI - CHRISTINE ARMARIO (AP)-- A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the ...

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Yelling From the Back Step

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Savings and Loan Industry, Merrill Lynch, AIG Bonus, Fdic, Chrysler, Blackwater, Chocolate, Economy, Enron, Toxic Assets, Aig, Aiu, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Socialism, Edward Liddy, Altria Group, Business News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

"Toxic assets" are two words that don't belong together in the English language. The meaning of one cancels out the meaning of the other.

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There is No "Z" in Blackwater

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Mercenaries, Bush, Blackwater, Xe, Bechtel, Philip Morris, Altria Group, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Mercenaries are a fact of life, as is marketing. Changing your name does not change what you have done, but changing the Commander In Chief can lead to new restrictions.

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Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cigarettes, Altria, Nicotine, Smoking, Philip Morris, Marlboro Intense, Altria Group, Marlboros, Business News

Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...

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Wanted: "Imported" CEOs For Growing U.S. Growth Abroad

New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, 3M, Chevron, R. Kerry Clark, David J. O'Reilly, Alcoa, Gregory M. Spierkel, Hartford Financial Services, Ronald D. Sugar, Vikram S. Pandit, American International Group, E. Neville Isdell, Martin J. Sullivan, Liberty Mutual Group, Ingram Micro, Northrop Grumman, George W. Buckley, Coca-Cola, Ramani Ayer, International CEOs, Alain J.P. Belda, Cardinal Health, Louis C. Camilleri, Dow Chemical, Edmund F. Kelly, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, "Imported" CEOs, Andrew N. Liveris, Indra K. Nooyi, Altria Group, Pepsico, Business News

The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikr...

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