The fact that nobody is talking about all the money being used to bailout XYZ corporations here in the states vs. getting us out of Iraq is just mind-numbing!

OpenCRS lays out the numbers for us:

Congress has approved a total of about $864 billion for military operations, base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks:

1. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) – Afghanistan and other counter terror operations,
2. Operation Noble Eagle (ONE) – providing enhanced security at military bases, and
3. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

Of that total, CRS estimates that:

• Iraq will receive about $657 billion (76%),
• OEF about $173 billion (20%), and

Multinational Monitor‘ is a bimonthly magazine Ralph Nader founded back in 1980. Although its primary focus is on analysis of corporations, especially in the Third World, Multinational Monitor also publishes articles on labor issues and occupational safety and health, the environment, globalization, privatization, the global economy, the export of hazardous substances, and developing nations.

His “Top Ten Worst Corporations” list names the top ten culprits of “corporate crime, negligence and dastardly behavior” every year.

Here is this year’s list:

1. AIG
2. Cargill
3. Chevron
4. CNPC
5. Constellation Energy
6. Dole
7. General Electric
8. Imperial Sugar
9. Philip Morris International
10. Roche

… and how they made it:

• Improper political influence,
• Deregulation and non-enforcement,
• Short-term thinking,
• Financialization,