Posted on 02 February 2008. Tags: Mexico, Wal-Mart
It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico. The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek. I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]
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Posted on 02 February 2008. Tags: Mexico, Wal-Mart
It never ends. The Beast of Bentonville is now after kids in Mexico. The folks at Wal-Mart Watch are working on this. And there was a story in Newsweek. I wonder: would the Waltons of Wal-Mart do this to their children, grandkids, nieces or cousins? Or is just too easy to exploit […]
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Posted on 23 August 2007. Tags: "Free Trade", Canada, Immigration, Mexico, NAFTA
No, I haven’t turned this into a sex advice column (hmmm…maybe the readership would skyrocket? Memo to NW–put on "to consider" list). From way back during the fight over NAFTA, there was an interesting–and, for some, uncomfortable–alliance between "left" and "right." The "left" saw NAFTA as a disaster for workers and the environment, whereas […]
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Posted on 04 August 2007. Tags: "Free Trade", Jobs, Mexico
Sometimes I read The Wall Street Journal and just laugh…it’s kind of a derisive, you have to be fucking kidding laugh. Many of the reporters do a great job but when you get to the ideologues who write opinion pieces, oh, lordy…to wit: today, Josh Kurtzman has a piece which looks at Mexico’s "job […]
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