January 2012 Archive

Tom Friedman on How the 99 Percent Can Better Serve The One Percent, Corporate Edition

By Marie Burns: Just when you think Tom Friedman cannot write anything dumber than he already has, he proves you wrong. Friedman ends his Sunday New ...

Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid

By Aaron Ross: The two-time Pulitzer winner on sneaking into Syria, being kidnapped in Libya, and the high cost of getting the story in a war ...

Stanley Fish Gets It Wrong Big-Time on Inequality

By Dean Baker: In a NYT column on inequality and fairness, Stanley Fish told readers: “Americans don’t mind if income is redistributed as long as it is done by ...

Globalization, Capitalism, and China

By Marty Hart-Landsberg: A January 22, 2012 New York Times story, The iEconomy: How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, has been getting a lot of coverage.   The article makes ...

The One Percent Solution — David Brooks vs. the 99 Percent

By Marie Burns: New York Times columnist David Brooks is disappointed: President Obama did not devote his State of the Union address to a “grand plan” ...

The New York Times’ Ode to Foxconn and Anti-Employee Control Fraud

By William K. Black: I wrote recently about Apple’s release of information from its “audits” of its major suppliers. Apple constructed the release to deny the ...

China’s ‘Competitive Advantage’: Serfdom

By Tula Connell: A much-discussed report in the Sunday New York Times on why iPhones are made in China highlights the transition of Apple guru Steve Jobs who, a few years ...