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Climate: Airline and car industry sponsor Copenhagen summit - see Copenhagen 2009: Who's Who. Revolving doors, government connections and carbon trading and offsetting at Grosvenor Gardens House. The Optimum Population Trust - Preventing African births as carbon offsetting. Henry Derwent - From government to industry lobbyist in six months.

Alcohol: The Portman Group When it comes to alcohol awareness, is the government under the influence of the drinks industry?

Genetically modified food: Blood-thinning drugs in your oilseed rape, anyone? GM pharma man Maurice Moloney is new head of (mostly) publicly funded ag research institute in the UK.

Spooks: John Sawers - New chief at MI6

Northern Ireland: Military Reaction Force - How the Army ran loyalists and republicans in the early years of the 'dirty war'

Pharma: The swine flu vaccination: A shot in the dark

Policing: How the 'extremist' threat is whipped up as an excuse to expand policing powers: National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit

Terror: Setting the terrorism agenda in Israel and beyond: Boaz Ganor and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

MEPedia profiles current Members of the European Parliament, focusing on issues of transparency, conflict of interest and the revolving door. It is a resource for members of the public across Europe to find out basic information about selected MEPs, their financial and political interests, and their voting history and comments on issues related to transparency, accountability and conflicts of interest.

The alcohol portal aims to examine governance processes in the area of alcohol and public policy. The portal aims to make connections between the alcohol industry, public policy makers and their relationships with the media, scientists and current research and debates within the field. You can see all pages on alcohol here. The portal focuses in large part on the most important policy actor which is the alcohol industry and its personnel, and in particular tries to uncover the links between the industry, alcohol lobby groupsand alcohol lobbyists and PR people. We also focus on the alcohol NGOs, which are often poorly funded and struggle to raise public health issues against the plethora of other alcohol policy groups and indeed the often covertly industry funded alcohol front groups. Lastly we also focus on the issue of the science of alcohol and examine the role that alcohol science and scientists play in the policy process.

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• Transnational Corporations: The organisations pushing corporate globalisation.
• Scotland: think tanks and lobbyists pushing corporate interests in Scotland.
• New Labour nexus: New Labour- and other market-friendly think tanks in Britain.
• Corporate Power in Britain: the main corporate lobby groups in Britain.
• Who Rules America? A guide to the power networks of the USA.

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• Lobbying: How corporations and special interests pull strings | Corporate Memberships Database: The lobby groups funded by the largest corporations | PR and lobbying consultancies client database: Check up on who PR and lobbying firms work for.

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