21 August 2004
half-assed appeal for shareholder divestment from "terror" states
ignoring the most obvious targets
|The DivestTerror report (you have to provide your name and e-mail to read the whole thing) shows that such pension funds have $188 billion invested in the stocks of some 400 companies that provide "critical revenues and advanced equipment and technology," as well as "moral and political cover to the governments" of terror-sponsoring states. ... While shareholder activists will surely welcome this new recruit to their cause, there are glaring omissions in Gaffney's report. ...it names only a dozen...tiptoes around the sleaziness practiced by American companies—including some with strong GOP ties such as Halliburton...[and] only singles out foreign firms.|
|The DivestTerror report (you have to provide your name and e-mail to read the whole thing) shows that such pension funds have $188 billion invested in the stocks of some 400 companies that provide "critical revenues and advanced equipment and technology," as well as "moral and political cover to the governments" of terror-sponsoring states. ... While shareholder activists will surely welcome this new recruit to their cause, there are glaring omissions in Gaffney's report. ...it names only a dozen...tiptoes around the sleaziness practiced by American companies—including some with strong GOP ties such as Halliburton...[and] only singles out foreign firms.|
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