Yes, I've said this 1000 times before. And I will say it 1000 times in the future. The only way to stop the exploitation of the world's poorest in the global supply chain is to create global labor standards that hold the western companies buying...
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Charter schools don't educate students any better than public schools and are a giant grift. Besides, as Pierce says, "education is not a damn marketplace." But any good grift has.
For whatever reason, I have a lot of small stories about global environmental issues in my blog list so let's do them at all at once. Between poor governance and.
In all the debates about the global supply chain, perhaps the very laziest and self-serving arguments proponents of free trade make is that the workers overseas need to lobby their own nations for changes if they want their lives to get better. This is a...
The global production economy is obviously great for workers. Thank you Walmart, Gap, and Target for providing these workers in India jobs by contracting production out to the lowest bidder.
Museums are inherently elite spaces. This is not a good thing. They usually cost money to enter. They may not actually require specific knowledge to enjoy them, but like drinking.
U.S. President Barack Obama, left and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake their hands after they jointly addressed the media after their talks, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Seizing on their personal bond, Obama and Modi said Sunday...
While all the dialogue on horrible air pollution in the world focuses on China, it's really awful in India as well. Josh Busby muses on his recent experience with the.
As we all know, most of our clothing is now made in Asian sweatshops. The clothing companies intentionally know as little as possible about the conditions of production. They contract.
It ain't great. India’s nuclear chiefs have long maintained that ill health in the region is caused by endemic poverty and and the unsanitary conditions of its tribal people, known locally as Adivasi, or first people. But the testimony and reports document how nuclear installations,...
Above: Gamal Abdel Nassar I've long thought Jacobin is at its best when it is moving the conversation on what it means to be a leftist ahead in the post-Soviet.
This story on Indian children digging mica for western cosmetics companies is distressing but also reminds us why we cannot allow corporations to escape legal responsibility for conditions in their.