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Undue influence: Wal-mart, Google, GE press China to curb workers rights
May 11, 2007There is a “tug of war” raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law, according to Brendan Smith, Tim Costello and Jerry Brecher, authors of a report released April 5 by Global Labor Strategies (GLS). On one side of the battle, the report says, is Wal-Mart, Google, General Electric and other transnational corporations that have been lobbying to limit rights for Chinese workers. On the other side are workers’ rights...
Read moreTo clone or not
December 07, 2001Despite pressure from President Bush to ban human cloning, either for reproduction or research, the Senate refused last week to take up a Republican measure to impose a six-month moratorium on the technology. The bill was pushed to the Senate floor after an announcement last week by Dr. Michael West, of the Advanced Cell Technology Institute of Worcester, Mass., that his biotechnology firm had created the first cloned human embryos....
Read moreAfter Trump’s 3-day horror show, Senate makes deal to end government shutdown
January 22, 2018“Millions of us have no protection at all and 850 more of us lose protections every week,” read a statement issued by United We Dream.
Read moreGeorge H.W. Bush's record: Nothing to celebrate
December 04, 2018WASHINGTON — The old Latin phrase is “De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” translated as “speak nothing but good of the dead,” but when it comes to George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the U.S., who died last week, you really – despite the blather being aired – can’t apply that. That’s because Bush’s record – as congressman, scion of wealth, GOP national chairman, CIA director, Ambassador to China,...
Read moreBerliners fighting to save everything from their homes to the planet
April 26, 2019People on the march are a common sight here lately. A big majority are young.
Read morePlaying tug-of-war in world politics can make everyone lose
July 25, 2019The resistance to war and fascism is beginning to win a few battles, however.
Read moreBiden announces huge infrastructure plan to ‘win the future’
April 07, 2021Infrastructure is so much more than the highways and bridges misleaders like Mitch McConnell say it is.
Read moreLeading health experts warn that U.S. is past coronavirus containment
March 14, 2020Some 40 to 70 percent of the population could become infected in the next 12 to 18 months, UCSF bio-hub panel says.
Read moreOrganizers say it's possible to grow unions in the South
March 05, 2015People remember Norma Rae, whose iconic struggle to organize a union at J.P. Stevens in the 1970's in Roanoke, N.C. was the stuff of a major Hollywood movie.
Read moreIraq Inc.: Corporate hogs feed at war trough
July 20, 2007Privatization, a strategy to eliminate public control over vital sectors of the economy, is nothing new. What is new, and perhaps more ominous, is that privatization has become the preferred method by which the Bush administration neoconservatives and transnational global corporations take over and occupy whole countries. Recent revelations that the number of U.S.-paid private contractors now far exceeds the number of American combat troops in Iraq show that Bush...
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