(CHICAGO) — Corporate predators seek cheap labor worldwide. Countries like China, India, Honduras, Jordan, Haiti and Bangladesh provide it. Transnational giants are unaccountable. Global sweatshops supply them. Workers endure horrific conditions. Some work up to 90 or more hours weekly. They’re wage slaves. They earn sub-poverty pay. They’re subjected to punishing harassment, beatings, sexual abuse […]
(CHICAGO) — Corporate predators seek cheap labor worldwide. Countries like China, India, Honduras, Jordan, Haiti and Bangladesh provide it. Transnational giants are unaccountable. Global sweatshops supply them. Workers endure horrific conditions. Some work up to 90 or more hours weekly. They’re wage slaves. They earn sub-poverty pay. They’re subjected to punishing harassment, beatings, sexual abuse […]
President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning point in how we view ethnicity; a post-racial America, if you will. Nevertheless, this writer contends that Barack Obama’s presidency revealed to us not only how far we have come, […]
President Obama’s candidacy, nomination and election was hailed as some sort of seismic shift in race relations in this nation and represented an epic turning point in how we view ethnicity; a post-racial America, if you will. Nevertheless, this writer contends that Barack Obama’s presidency revealed to us not only how far we have come, […]
(MintPress) – Throughout the world, a new normal is settling in. As the climate shifts and changes on a daily basis, a new world of extreme weather is opening — the massive flooding and landslides in Brazil last January; the wildfires in Chile; the record-breaking cold in Europe and the scorching heat in the United […]
(MintPress) – Throughout the world, a new normal is settling in. As the climate shifts and changes on a daily basis, a new world of extreme weather is opening — the massive flooding and landslides in Brazil last January; the wildfires in Chile; the record-breaking cold in Europe and the scorching heat in the United […]
(MintPress) – In New York, a 38-year-old man loses his job in the downward-spiraling economy. His wife is a cancer patient, and mounting medical bills put him and his family past the breaking point. Faced with foreclosure, he found himself sinking, surrounded by scam artists promising to help him, but seeking only to pick over […]
(MintPress) – In New York, a 38-year-old man loses his job in the downward-spiraling economy. His wife is a cancer patient, and mounting medical bills put him and his family past the breaking point. Faced with foreclosure, he found himself sinking, surrounded by scam artists promising to help him, but seeking only to pick over […]
In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the oldest strands of our cultural DNA.” But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, […]
In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others — “the oldest strands of our cultural DNA.” But if you gathered all of those tuition-paying, in-person students together, […]
(CHICAGO) — Some observers call Washington a city of scandals. Lots of intrigue reflects daily life in the nation’s capital. Elected and appointed officials come and go. Most often it’s uneventful. Other times once powerful figures fell from grace or scandals affecting them rose to the level of affixing a “gate” suffix on what happened. […]
(CHICAGO) — Some observers call Washington a city of scandals. Lots of intrigue reflects daily life in the nation’s capital. Elected and appointed officials come and go. Most often it’s uneventful. Other times once powerful figures fell from grace or scandals affecting them rose to the level of affixing a “gate” suffix on what happened. […]
Might Americans’ growing ability to get stoned without fear of arrest end Mexico’s bloody gangster wars? The legalization of recreational marijuana approved by voters Tuesday in Washington and Colorado could sap power from vicious smuggling gangs, and undermine the Mexican government’s rationale for pressing on with thedrug war, some analysts say. The impact of the […]
Might Americans’ growing ability to get stoned without fear of arrest end Mexico’s bloody gangster wars? The legalization of recreational marijuana approved by voters Tuesday in Washington and Colorado could sap power from vicious smuggling gangs, and undermine the Mexican government’s rationale for pressing on with thedrug war, some analysts say. The impact of the […]
