The New York Times continues its run of articles on the garment trade in Bangladesh but once again I am frustrated with them. Saturday's article focused on the Bangladeshi garment capitalists, essentially the middlemen between the apparel companies and the workers. These are not good...
Author: Erik Loomis
Governments subsidize energy. That is a way of life in the United States that is not going to change, because powerful interests make sure those subsidizes become naturalized and we.
Let's take massive overfishing and combine it with rapidly worsening climate change. What you end up with is a nightmare of cannibalistic lobsters, not to mention a Maine fishing economy.
J.J. Cale has died. Can't say I'm a huge fan of a style this laid-back, which can become outright sleepy. But Cale could write some excellent songs.
This week marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Michigan copper strike of 1913-14, made famous by the Calumet Massacre, where a company thug's call of "Fire!" during.
An excellent Mark Bittman op-ed about the true cost of food upon those who produce it. Bittman talks about the fast-food strikes of the last few weeks and how only.
I was a union organizer for awhile. Most of this was volunteer work, but I was pretty good at it and there were professionals who encouraged me to go into it full time. I was committed to going on to the Ph.D. though. But right...
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is quite an intelligent man and a principled politician: In a lengthy and, at times, awkward and disjointed press conference, Gov. Pat McCrory said today.
Here's a Stereogum list of the 10 best Townes Van Zandt songs. I'll offer my own 10 best, which look pretty different. Between about 1997 and 2002 or so I.
This is from a couple of weeks ago and some of you might have seen it already, but this is an excellent roundup of the wages of global capitalism on the people and ecosystems of Indonesia. Apparel and manufacturing corporations are increasingly looking to Indonesia...
The Yankees' acquisition of Alfonso Soriano is another sign that the team's ownership really has had trouble adjusting to the new reality that you have to develop from within in.
The true victims of police violence against protestors are always the cops. The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is.