It happens almost every time. When a study is published linking a workplace chemical to serious disease, a scientist working for the industry disputes the findings. David Michaels, author of ‘Doubt is their product’, exposes industry’s dangerous tactics to protect its toxic favourites.

Paul Hutcheon reports on how a media company placed scare stories about a new legal system in Scotland, which sped proceedures by keeping low-level criminals out of court and instead punished them with either a fine or a warning,

Andy Rowell on the mainstream media and PR industries interpretation of the war in Georgia.

Next wednesday, the Guardian will be collaborating with prominent fossil fuel industry sponsors in its “Climate Change Summit 2008”. If the paper’s own marketing hype is anything to go by, however, this latest venture appears simply to be building on earlier projects subsidised by the industry.

An organisation seeking to promote shared Anglo-American “values” of rapacious power and wealth to upcoming leaders in British society appears to have a worrying amount of influence, writes John Pilger.