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Obvious examples: Enron for swindling people ruthlessly, News Corporation because nationalistic media empires remind me of the 3rd Reich, &c...

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51 votes

Wal-Mart

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Drives me crazy that they are just diving into every kind of product to take over every market. Leave some for the little guy. Or at least the smaller corporation....

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32 votes

Microsoft

Half the stuff they do is good, half the stuff they do is terrible... Get your act together and stop screwing consumers!

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26 votes

EXXON-MOBILE

Any corporation that can knowingly take advantage of others during a time of disaster gets my vote. We the people lined up to donate supplies while others of us with more specialised talents kept our peace keepers/rescuers safe. Record profits at that cost is inexcusable.

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18 votes

Halliburton

Big Hal. The winners of the Second Gulf War.

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16 votes

AOL

I'm sorry, but they just suck

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10 votes

Any knowingly acting illegally, otherwise none.

Every company should be able to act as ruthlessly as they wish as long as its within the limits of the law.

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10 votes

Starbucks

For heavy handing and overthrowing real coffeehouses, hoarding real estate, bastardizing language, price gouging, perpetuating the anti-smoking movement, and above all, SERVING HORRIBLE COFFEE.

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10 votes

R.I.A.A.

quickest way to lose my respect is to directly victimize and extort money from people who love your "art". The RIAA is the most disgusting group of obsolete dinosaurs I can think of.

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9 votes

Any corporation using tariff-free zones (The Gap, Nike etc)

Any corporation who chooses to use child labour, or pay below living condition wages to a labour force in (for example) China, the Phillipines, el Salvador, Nicaragua. People get paid a few cents to produce an article of clothing that retails for fifteen dollars (or more). Corporations involved in this practice include Wal-Mart, Gap, Nike, Timberland, JC Penney amongst others. A recently uncovered example is this factory in GuangDoung province, China: Workers in China are forced to work 15 to 19 􀀁 hours a day, from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., or even until 3:00 a.m., seven days a week. Wages: Paid 43 cents an hour and $3.45 a day; In spray paint department, workers paid just $0.000387 cents per piece; If workers fail to meet their production quota, their wages fall to 15 to 18 cents an hour, which is less than half the legal... [show more]

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8 votes

Insurance industry

Masters of bad faith

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6 votes

US Government

i know, this is no corporation but this is even worse as all listed here corporations....Everybody knows why...
I hope some day will get better..

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6 votes

Eli Lilly

Their lobby has more power for dictating America's mental health policies than the American Psychological Association. Eli Lilly is licensed to manufacture Prozac to fill record numbers of prescriptions -- encouraging psychiatrists with massive incentive deals to prescribe Prozac for conditions as far ranging as bipolarity to depression as a result of PMS. This is chemical barbarism.

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5 votes

Philip Morris, tobacco company that kills millions.

Because my Uncle John died of throat cancer, and I miss him.

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5 votes

Whole Foods

Corporations that sell feelings of moral self-righteousness to their customers piss me off.

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4 votes

The Pharmaceutical Industry

They aren't curing anything. They are masking symptoms without getting to the cause of the problem. Most pills make people worse...which in turn leads them to needing more pills. It's been proven that medications make people worse over time. Why do you think meds have side effects? Because you're putting things in your body that shouldn't be there. If I had the power, I'd take them all out. They're more corrupt than you could ever imagine. They're raping the world one dollar and one life at a time.

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Jamsterson Jamsterson: 10,194 points   4 years ago
Lots of possibilities here: http://www.commondream...0425-21.htm
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