Canadian mining companies operating in Latin America often trash the environment and the rights of local inhabitants.

Tunisia, despite being more or less democratic, represses homosexuals.

Inside the NRA: the Officials Keeping Gun Control Laws Off the US Agenda.

Some of their lobbying is done through disguised relationships.

"The Paris agreement signals that deniers have lost the climate wars."

Their agents in many governments and institutions are still sabotaging real progress, but they have lost the battle for society's overall direction. It was inevitable that would happen once the effects of global heating became sufficiently visible. Thus, what they intended was a delaying action.

Did they succeed enough to cause the slow destruction of human civilization and Earth's biosphere? Time will tell.

An effective method of reducing gun violence by gangs is no longer in use in the US because nobody will pay for it.