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    Inside ExxonMobil

    Apple may have challenged ExxonMobil as the biggest American company, but the business that deals with fuel for the energy that powers the world's economy is not much older. Now it's come to be state within a state — with its own foreign policy — and not one that necessarily conforms to the foreign policy of its home country.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Apple may have challenged

    ExxonMobil as the biggest American company, but the business that deals with fuel for the energy that powers the world's economy is not much older. Now it's come to be state within a state — with its own foreign policy — and not one that necessarily conforms to the foreign policy of its home country. ExxonMobil is not "a US company," says its former president, Lee Raymond. "I don't make decisions based on what's good for the US." That's a quote from

    Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power

    by Pulitzer Prize-winner

    Steve Coll, a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and president of the New America Foundation in Washington.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Steve Coll

      Author and Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, CEO of New America Foundation

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    The full episode

    3 of 3
    The National Showdown in Wisconsin
    1. 0:00Houla Massacre Could Bring International Action
    2. 7:24The National Showdown in Wisconsin
    3. 40:09Inside ExxonMobilYou’re reading this
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