East India Company and slave trade
Coca Cola and death squads
Chiquita and South America
All Fortune 500 companies and all developing nations
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East India Company
doesn't exist anymore. those royal patent brands that sell luxury bs are just bored millionaires buying a brandname
IBM's adding machines were used to organize the holocaust.
They also provided support, it wasn’t just their machines.
Edit: support in integrating files from the Netherlands into the German file system or something. I forgot the exact details.
IIRC the Swiss branch of IBM was providing parts and labor to Germany in wartime too
Union Carbide Bhopal disaster 3,787–16,000 deaths
They were bought by Dow in 2001. Dow also manufactured agent orange, napalm, asbestos and DBCP.
I only learned about this one recently from a Vijay Prashad interview, he said a Union Carbide executive was trying to downplay it at the time by saying 'Indian deaths are not as tragic because they believe in reincarnation'
The Hudson's Bay Company. Nowadays they're mostly known as an overpriced generic department store, but historically they were deeply involved in the exploitation of aboriginal people for the commercial gain of wealthy Europeans in what is now known as Canada.
Dole fruit, the overthrow and annexation of the nation of Hawaii
mining companies are pretty bad
considering the correlation between excess deaths and unemployment, anyone who does layoffs or downsizing to pad a stock valuation gets the wall twice.
Can you name one, for example, with a famous atrocity? I know I've heard 75% of mining companies in Africa are Canadian...
i'm hardly an expert but here's some torture and murdering https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/tanzanians-sue-barrick-gold-in-canada-over-alleged-mine-abuses
Siemens had slave labor factories in German concentration camps
Elon Musk's "we'll coup whoever we want" tweet regarding the short lived Christian fascist coup in Bolivia
you might enjoy this wiki article
literally every japanese car company produced shit for the IJA, even Honda(officially incorporated in 1946)'s predecessor was.
pick basically any german company
DOW chemical
Nestlé is known for many misdeeds, such as promoting unhealthy products, using slave labor, demanding Ethiopia its pay debts to the company during a famine, extracting large amounts of water for commercial purposes in drought areas, union-busting, promoting deforestation.
Condemning it was mainstream 15 years ago, nowadays I think it wouldn't be too difficult for them to get a yesmen army like Elon Musk has. 😌
a yesmen army like Elon Musk has.
What do they need that for? 😨
for loyal customers that buy anything they sell, I suppose.
pretty sure they were just granted rights to steal more water near flint too
Bayer (which at the time was a part of IG Farben), who you probably know for Aspirin, created Zyklon B for the Nazis.
Name an oil company and you'll more likely than not read about one of the enviro-cidal fucky-wuckies that they legally weasel out of and laugh all the way to the bank to repeat the process
Krupps. Today they make coffee machines, back in the day they used concentration camp slave labor to make Hitler's artillery pieces.
Probably all of them but nestle is a well known example
Petronas, the Malaysian oil company, funded war crimes in Sudan.
DuPont: funded climate change denialism, Cancer Alley
Ford: Henry Ford was of course a Nazi, and they produced military equipment for Nazi Germany using slave labor.
De Beers: started by Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia guy) and built on African slave labor.