Democracy Now August 07, 2006 http://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/7/the_war_the_world_ignores_a Johann Hari: "the United Nations identified some of the most core multinationals as responsible for this: Anglo American, De Beers, Barclays Bank. And whats really shameful is this a war fought for us, so that we can have these resources. But when our governments were informed by the United Nations that they were cooperating with some of their—that their corporations were collaborating and indeed causing some of the worst human rights abuses anywhere in the world, our governments didnt react by holding these corporations to account. They reacted by saying to the UN, Why has our company been put on this list? The companies lobbied very hard, not just in the Bush administration, but in Britain, in Germany, all over the developed world, to say, Get us off the list. And lots of them were taken off the list. Its a disgrace." Johann Hari's latest article 30 October 2008: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-we-fuel-africas-bloodiest-war-978461.html