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Agenda Making the news this month

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8 Haitians look history in the eye 10 Climate criminal Canada sets its sights on Europe 12 A rosier Valentine’s for Ugandan flower workers 13 World Social Forum cleans up its act

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Analysis Special feature: Corporate lobbying 14 In the halls

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OD o n o u g h of shame Who shapes the policies and laws that govern us? If you think the answer is ‘our elected politicians’, read on. Vanessa Baird examines the secretive but expanding power of corporate lobbying.

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18 Corporate influence – the facts 20 The best influence money can buy –

the 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

Dirty cash and dirty tricks – our rogues’ gallery of lobbyists who get governments to dance to the tune ic/Reuters jundz

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Helen Burley and Olivier Hoedeman.

The Unreported Year 26 Stories and photos that didn’t make the mainstream media in 2010

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