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At Ten Miles Square today, Georgetown University’s Paul Pillar reviews Steve Coll’s new book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, a major study of the quintessential modern multinational corporation and its interaction with the United States government and national interests at home and abroad.
Coll’s book deploys classic old-school reporting to deal with a highly complex new type of corporation operating in a volatile and politically sensitive global energy market where its interests and that of usually-friendly U.S. diplomats sometimes overlap, but sometimes collide. Pillar provides a thorough tour of Coll’s investigations and findings, including those touching on ExxonMobil’s responsibility for the birth and growth of the now-rampant climate change denial industry. It’s a strong review of an important book. Check it out.
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boatboy_srq on May 04, 2012 10:03 AM:
ExxonMobil has been on my s##t list ever since the merger. Any question about what they're like as a company should be answered by Exxon's requirement that (as part of the merger agreement) the combined company not only stop providing DP benefits but cancel the benefits already provided to existing employees. Nobody got grandfathered in.
BP may be a bigger workplace safety and environmental offender. But nobody knows how to screw their own workers to score political points like ExxonMobil.
c u n d gulag on May 04, 2012 10:11 AM:
They probably learned a lesson or two from The United Fruit Company, where America helped the company put the "banana" in Banana Republic, in South and Central America.
Now, instead of the 20th Century and The United Fruit Companies repressive Banana Republics, we now help ExxonMobil to support repressive "'Oil'-igarchies."
Progress!
schtick on May 04, 2012 11:56 AM:
Every time I see that commercial of lies about fracking from ExxonMobil I wanna throw a shoe through my tv, but I can't afford the shoes, nevermind the tv. And the best part, which I think is intentional, most of them are during every commercial break of the Rachel Maddow show.
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