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China's Evolving 'Core Interests'

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By The Editorial Board - May. 11 (Editorial) - Editorial: China’s Evolving ‘Core Interests’

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Poverty Expert Peter Edelman Explains How Low Wages and Racial Politics Line the Pockets of the Rich

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adelle M. Stan - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - in 1996, Edelman resigned his post as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human services to protest President Bill Clinton's signing the Republicans' welfare-reform bill into law. Since then, Edelman has held fast not only to his critique of that law -- which, he says, has left some 6 million people with no income other than food stamps -- but to his assessment of why poverty in the world's richest nation has become so intractable.

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Corporate-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Shrouded in Secrecy

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Sam Knight - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - The TPP will give big business additional leverage through regulatory ceilings and dispute resolution tribunals. The latter, used to enforce the former, could increase international litigation risk for new regulations - a threat that already exists, courtesy of NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO. The panels create additional legal venues in which either foreign investors can demand compensation for losses borne through "regulatory expropriation," or in which states can be awarded the right to impose retaliatory tariffs on counterparts deemed to be pushing biased regulations. They don't create additional opportunities for workers to sue a foreign country or company for allowing the murder of union leaders, nor do they offer an additional medium for a government to sue a company for environmental damage. The result is the creation of new institutions fueling the race to the bottom wrought by an interpretation of global economic integration that affords capital outsized privilege. The chilling effect on regulation is greater in poorer countries that can be cowed by the panels.

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Lawmakers hear from CEO opponents of H-1Bs

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Computerworld - By Patrick Thibodeau - Mar. 19 (News Report) - "If these outsourcing firms were not bringing in the entry level [workers], or they didn't have such a big pool of H-1B visa people available, then I think it opens the doors to making IT an attractive occupation once again, which I think is so important for an innovative economy," Keane said, in an interview.

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CEOs explain how H-1B visa hurts U.S. competitiveness

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

epi.org - By Daniel Costa - Mar. 15 (News Report) - on March 14 a briefing was held on Capitol Hill to inform Senate staffers about the H-1B program’s impacts on the labor market and job opportunities for U.S. workers in STEM fields. The briefing offered facts and perspectives about the H-1B that are usually ignored or overlooked by the media; including from CEOs who use the program.

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CPA Members Visit 105 Congressional Offices

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

prosperousamerica.org - By Sara Haimowitz - Mar. 15 (Press Release) - Fixing the trade deficit was CPA’s number one issue. The U.S. has the worst trade performance of any country in the history of the world. President Obama and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative wrongly push increased “two way trade” which results in record trade deficits and a massive transfer of industries, jobs, intellectual property and wealth to other countries.

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Have You Heard of the TPP Yet? An Important Trade Agreement You Need to Know About

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aflcio.org - By Celeste Drake - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Most people simply have not heard of the TPP, nor do they know that it might be the last trade agreement the United States ever negotiates (unlike past agreements, this one will be open to new countries, whenever they want to join). So it is all the more important to get this one right. Why isn’t the press talking about this trade agreement? It’s certainly not because trade is boring or irrelevant, and it is definitely not because the debate is over.

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Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Tyee - By Raul Burbano, Kristen Beifus, Manuel Pérez-Rocha - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - Since NAFTA was signed almost 20 years ago, all three North American countries have seen good jobs vanish, worsening income inequality, public services weakened through underfunding or offloaded to the private sector, increased food insecurity (in particular in Mexico), and ecosystems on the point of breaking. NAFTA promised a flourishing North American economy that would benefit all. In Jan. 2014, NAFTA has been in place for 20 years and the promised trickle down benefits have not been realized by communities.

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Radiation Of The Pacific Ocean In The Next 10 Years - Japan Nuclear Disaster Video | Japan Earthquake

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

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Older Tech Workers Oppose Overhauling H-1B Visas

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - Overhauling immigration is complicated and controversial. There's been a proposed increase in H-1B visas. Those are the visas that allow companies to bring in skilled foreign workers for jobs that can't be filled by Americans.

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America’s Genius Glut

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Ross Eisenbrey - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - the bill would flood the job market with indentured foreign workers, people who could not switch employers to improve their wages or working conditions; damage the employment prospects of hundreds of thousands of skilled Americans; and narrow the educational pipeline that produces these skilled workers domestically.

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The TPP, IP and the Australasian healthcare industry - what's at stake?

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

mondaq.com - By Chharles Tansey, Gareth Dixon - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - there are fears that the TPP may reduce access to affordable medicines throughout the region party to the agreement. Additionally, many worry that the TPP may not be flexible enough to accommodate existing non-discriminatory drug reimbursement programs and the diverse health systems of the member countries.

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Has America Become an Authoritarian State?

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Henry A. Giroux - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - What is missing in the current debates dominating Washington politics is the recognition that the real issues at stake are neither the debt ceiling nor the state of the economy, however important, but a powerful and poisonous form of authoritarianism that poses a threat to the very idea of democracy and the institutions, public values, formative cultures and public spheres that nourish it.

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U.S. Corporations Launch Wave of NAFTA Attacks on Canada's Energy, Fracking, and Medicines Policies

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Public Citizen - Dec. 14 (Special Report) - Meet the “investor-state” system. Written into NAFTA, this system uniquely empowers foreign corporations to skirt domestic laws and courts and directly challenge a government’s public interest policies. The cases are decided by U.N. and World Bank tribunals typically comprised of three corporate lawyers. Private corporations have launched these cases against a wide array of health, environmental, financial, and other public interest policies that they allege as undermining “expected future profits.”

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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Andrew Gavin Marshall - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - public interest groups have been warning that the TPP could result in millions of lost jobs. As a letter from Congress to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk stated, the TPP “will create binding policies on future Congresses in numerous areas,” including “those related to labor, patent and copyright, land use, food, agriculture and product standards, natural resources, the environment, professional licensing, state-owned enterprises and government procurement policies, as well as financial, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and other service sector regulations.”

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Study Linking Monsanto Corn to Cancer Must Be Taken Seriously by Regulators

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By John Vidal - Sep. 29 (News Report) - last week, Seralini brought the whole scientific and corporate establishment crashing down on his head. In a peer-reviewed US journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology, he reported the results of a €3.2m study. Fed a diet of Monsanto's Roundup-tolerant GM maize NK603 for two years, or exposed to Roundup over the same period, rats developed higher levels of cancers and died earlier than controls. Séralini suggested that the results could be explained by the endocrine-disrupting effects of Roundup, and overexpression of the transgene in the GMO.

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Meet salmon farming's worst enemy

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Craig Welch - May. 27 (Special Report) - It was Morton who stunned U.S. scientists last fall with trace evidence found in wild salmon of a virus that killed millions of farmed fish in Chile. Researchers from Washington state to Washington, D.C., scrambled to grasp the risks of so-called infectious salmon anemia (ISA), a virus typically linked to fish farms. Congress demanded federal agencies test American fish. Wild-salmon lovers seethed.

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May Day Protests Span the Globe With Calls for Economic Justice, International Solidarity

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 02 (News Report) - Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker's Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout the United States. "This is brutal and dictatorial,” says Mariano, a member of Spain's General Union of Workers who denounced his country’s conservative government for recently announcing job cuts in the health and education sectors as well as tax increases. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Occupy Sunset Park: Seeking Change in Many Languages | Brooklyn Bureau | News & Journalism, Citizen Commentary & Multimedia

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Newsvine - AP Impact: Right-to-know laws often ignored

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NewsVine - By Martha Mendoza, AP National Writer,: Ravi Nessman from India, Charles Hutzler from China, Adriana Gomez Licon from Mexico. - Nov. 17 (Investigative Report) - In Mexico, the AP filed a query through a website and got all the information requested within two months. But in the U.S., the AP had to mail requests to six branches of the Justice and Homeland Security departments. After 10 months, 18 phone calls and 40 letters from the government, the AP ended up with two spreadsheets and a piece of paper with all names blanked out.

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Lawyers: Court order will allow Occupy Wall St. protesters to return with tents to NYC park

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicting dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed and economic inequality.

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Mind Your Manners: The Secrets of Switzerland's Last Traditional Finishing School

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By William Lee Adams - Oct. 24 (Special Report) - If lunch at the Institut Villa Pierrefeu (IVP) often feels like a rehearsal, that's because it is. Under the watchful eye of Rosemary McCallum, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and expert on table manners, 13 female students practice the skills they've studied in courses on European etiquette and table service. As the meal unfolds in a stately dining room with corniced ceilings, McCallum gently reminds the five student servers that they must pick up champagne glasses near the bottom of the stems and offer the pear-and-Roquefort tarts from the left. Back home, four of the five women serving have live-in staffs. But the program requires them to rotate through the service role anyway so they can better train and manage their employees. Vera, a 30-year-old playing the role of hostess, steers the conversation from her work with orphans back home in Lebanon to a Mexican guest's love of horseback riding. All goes well until Vera's fondness for Toblerone mousse leads her to commit a crucial error. "Your husband is still eating, and you've already finished," McCallum says. "Remember to pace yourself." Vera glares across the table at her husband, played by a female classmate from India. "Well," Vera says, "my husband should learn to eat faster."

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Worker Ownership Cooperatives Are Our Way Out of This Mess

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Michael Cheverie Dewey - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - I first heard of the Mondragon Cooprative of the Basque in Spain, back in 1994. My Mom had been telling m the Family History of the Cheveries who are Basque. The French had kicked the Cheverie's out of France. We ended up on Prince Edward Island. The English tried to kick us out of there. My Ancesters went andn hid in the woods for 15 yars and had lots of kids. I told my Mom, ''I want to know what they are doing now?'' 2 weeks latter she showed me an Article in the Catholic Digest, about Mondragon's Worker Ownership.

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America's Pacific Century

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Hillary Clinton - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - We cannot and do not aspire to impose our system on other countries, but we do believe that certain values are universal -- that people in every nation in the world, including in Asia, cherish them -- and that they are intrinsic to stable, peaceful, and prosperous countries.

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Chinese state media shows military cyber hacking clip - chicagotribune.com

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Melanie Lee, Reuters - Aug. 25 (News Report) - Geek.comChinese state media shows military cyber hacking clipBaltimore SunA scrolling marquee at the top of the box reads "China's People's Liberation Army Electronic Engineering Academy." The user then selects Minghui.org, a website of the banned spiritual sect Falun Gong, from a dropdown menu containing a list of other ...video depicts China's cyber-weaponryWashington PostChina Hacking Video Shows Glimpse of Falun Gong Attack ToolPCWorldReport: Chinese military developing cyberwarfare toolsGMANews.TVall 52 news articles »

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