India has been pursuing the Dow Chemical company, owner of Union Carbide, for over two decades to get decent compensation for the 10,000+ deaths caused by the release of methyl isocyanate at Bhopal in December 1984. Considering all the sanctimonious crap that emanated from the Gulf oil spill last year and the exemplary way that BP addressed the issue of compensation, it is hardly surprising that rank hypocrisy and double standards apply when US corporations pollute overseas. We are talking about a disaster that has claimed thousands of lives, at least three times more than 9/11, and caused up to half a million injuries and yet Dow has got off with paying £300 million, a fucking insult considering the amounts paid out for the loss of a few shrimps in the Gulf. This is one of the most shameful episodes in US corporate history and the worst industrial accident in history, yet it has been buried in the sand by the US media and politicians.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/indians-vote-london-2012-boycott-103110056.html
