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Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?
Workers are learning that real workplace democracy doesnu2019t have to heed managementu2019s rules.
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How’s This for a Speech on the Real State of the Union?
Here's what a State of the Union address might sound like if it were truly concerned with the well-being of the whole country and not a privileged and powerful …
Will China-Japan-US Tensions in the Pacific Ignite a Conflict and Sink the Global Economy?
Conditions are deteriorating in the western Pacific.
Nixon Went to China, Who Will Go to Iran?
Somehow it is good and proper for us to be killing Iranian children — although perhaps not to be talking about it.
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Walmart Empire Clashes With China
As the Walmart empire grows overseas in China the same mistreatment of workers takes place, inciting mass protest from Chinese workers.
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Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace
The ‘Iranian threat’ is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations.
Robert Pollin: Economic Outlook for 2013
Bob Pollin: With austerity policies in Europe and the USA and slow down in China and India, 2013 needs innovative policies or more recession is likely.
Economic Update: Unemployment Analyzed
Updates on Marvins' “shared unemployment,” $4 trillion profits hoarded by US corporations, and root issues of the “fiscal cliff.” Discussion of solutions for unemployment. Responses to listeners: on pluses …
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The China Information Conundrum
For foreign investors and governments, a different logic and analysis are required in a society where business and government are the same.
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Sensata Workers Gain Support for Full-Year Severance Pay
The plight of Sensata workers affects the whole community of Freeport, Illinois, where unemployment is around 12 percent.