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http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2003/nowaterdrinkcoke.html Coca Cola Company has done it in India
  just one example, i guess you can find more if you care to look.

That is a good example, but it is an example of how a Multi-National Corp ruined a local community and has nothing to do with US Foreign policy. Also, Coca Cola did at least try to make it right by bringing in bottled water for the people there.

Also, if I may try out my spinning talent... The OP said:

Become democratic, open your markets and your economy will flourish.

The fact that they were democratic allowed the protest. You won't see that in countries like N. Korea, Burma, China, or many other non-democratic countries around the globe. They would have been simply shot and all records of the protest and slaughter erased.

http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2003/nowaterdrinkcoke.html Coca Cola Company has done it in India
just one example, i guess you can find more if you care to look.

Care to provide an example of Coca Cola rounding someone up and torturing him or her?

They don't have to, they pay government, the military, and paramilitary organizations to do the dirty work. As in Colombia, Coke sued over death squad claims. How about the Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable in India. Google has a directory of more unethical things Coka Cola has been accused of.

Coca-Cola has hired death squads to assassinate union organizers [killercoke.org] in Colombia.

Coca Cola is also draining India's blood, er water, dry. Coca-Cola Arrogance and Impunity - Coca-Cola in India. Arrogancia e Impunidad - Coca-Cola en India.

Coca-Cola has hired death squads to assassinate union organizers [killercoke.org] in Colombia.

Coca Cola is also draining India's blood, er water, dry. Coca-Cola Arrogance and Impunity - Coca-Cola in India. Arrogancia e Impunidad - Coca-Cola en India.

Coca-Cola has hired death squads to assassinate union organizers [killercoke.org] in Colombia.

Coca Cola is also draining India's blood, er water, dry. Coca-Cola Arrogance and Impunity - Coca-Cola in India. Arrogancia e Impunidad - Coca-Cola en India.

countries like China and India see how industrialization gives them a chance to improve their standards of living

China is seeing an improvement in quality if life and the economy but how long will it last when the country is being Deserified? How far will India get with water shortages there? Coca Cola bottling plants in India are pumping and drilling the aquafers, sources of fresh water, in India dry.

Putting up an unprotected web site is akin to putting up a billboard. If I take a picture of the billboard and publish it in a textbook that kids read for the next 20 years, should I be expected to be sued by the billboard company?

Sadly, the answer to this is probably yes. Two examples:
1) Coke sues a photographer for including one of its billboards in a picture.
2) The filmmakers of "Bewitched" were forced to edit the Transamerica pyramid out of their shots of the San Francisco skyline because the building is a registered trademark.

Our IP laws seem destined to be controlled by corporate greed and congressional stupidity.

The US is not "flooding the world" with food anymore. As of this year, we are now a net food *importer*. What we are flooding the world with is "IP" laws and patents of dubious nature, from software and movies to GM seeds, because we just don't produce as much tangibles as we used to. Brazil in particular is poised to overtake us in raw ag production. The ag subsidies in the US are a scam, primarily go to the same big corporate farmers who are more or less sharecroppers for the banks and the big agcos. Joe family farmer gets about squat, the average age is over 60 for them, and there really isn't much money in it anymore, and the death tax-"estate" taxes- keeps breaking up the farms.

Small nation/third world ag is in trouble because they are trying to use ag products as a hard currency revenue generator, at the expense of national sustainability. And the big agco transnational (based in the US but not loyal) boys keep bribing off those various governments to get them hooked on expensive patented seeds. Some nations are resisting, most are falling for it though.

I'm in ag myself, keep up on this stuff more or less.

We ship the waste to India and let them take care of it.

It unfortunately IS the current practice.

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Oh how I wish that were more true. Maybe it is in some narrow sense, like with a service-oriented company (are you listening Intuit?), but not for the nut-and-bolts economy, and certainly not with nasties like Monsanto, BASF, those who financed the Nazis and supplied them with vehicles and steel (ad infinitum with other totalitarian states), land-mine and explosive toy manufacturers, and Haliburton (and the like, who plan ahead on profiting from the more gruesome effects of war). The list just goes on: profitable companies, propelled ahead through innovations and opportunity-making designed by assholes. And I mean that in a relative sense, because even though the sweatshop economy ultimately relies on assholes farther down the chain, there are few other options, so even nice companies/managers have to choose these parts/products. Generally, there is an alternative, a kinder gentler friendlier and oh yeah ethical route, but it doesn't enhance shareholder value.