Tag Archive | "Mexico"

Wal-Mart: Now Exploiting Kids in Mexico

    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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Wal-Mart: Now Exploiting Kids in Mexico

    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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Strange Bedfellows

    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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Why Do Mexicans Come to the U.S.?

    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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