Not surprising in the slightest. US corporatocracy has always exploited vassal states, by showing utmost lack of safety and ethics. There was Ecuador, where on

Not surprising in the slightest. US corporatocracy has always exploited vassal states, by showing utmost lack of safety and ethics. There was Ecuador, where once Torrijos was "knocked out", the Standard Oil siblings went in and in their greed leaked millions of barrels of crude and waste chemicals into the Amazon. There is India, where Bhopal victims were paid a pittance, and continue to die from the after effects. Russia, where resources formerly under public ownership was sold off in rigged auctions to US (or equivalently Boris Yeltsin) approved oligarchs. If the American media (and probably more importantly, it's pop-culture figures) spent half as much time on introspecting as they did on selling 'human rights', we'd have a better world. But hey, a better world would mean the corporatocracy would have less money.. why bother ? Seriously though, John Perkins' book 'Confessions of an Economic Hit man' is a wonderful read for the 'conspiracy theorist'.