1. Senate Poised to Capitulate to Cheney\'s Fear-Mong
(Newsletter)

...    Thursday, 24 January 2008 John Bowe's terrific new book called "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" takes the reader on a journ...

2. CEO of Mercenary Firm 'Blackwater' Resigns
(Opinions/Daily)

...ty. So that would be a real message of change to send to the Iraqi people, to say this was an embassy built on slave labor as part of an illegal occupation of your country— AMY GOODMAN: Why do you s...

3. The House I Live In
(Opinions/op-ed)

...e world. It is now being used in suits brought against Chevron Oil in Ecuador and against IBM for the death of slave laborers in Nazi Germany.   Damn right America is exceptional. It is America t...

4. Is Slavery in Our Future?
(Opinions/Review)

John Bowe's terrific new book called "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" takes the reader on a journey ending in the question I've placed abov

5. On Obama and the Fears We Dare Not Name
(Opinions/Politic)

...to wars. The dark shadows cast not only by the South but by American capitalism generally, a system founded on slave labor. I consider the Swift-boating of John Kerry. Big Media's joyful complicity in...

6. Kucinich: 'It's your government, take it back'
(Editor/Daily)

...gthening of workers' rights and retirement security; re-negotiated trade agreements that protect against "slave labor, child labor and prison labor" in other countries; and a living wage for...

7. Two 'Green Zones'
(Opinions/Iraq)

...nemy is inside the wire.” Wars for empire don’t change…and Iraq is the perfect example. Invading armies using slave labor (foreign in this case due to their deep distrust of Iraqis), taking advantage...

8. JITTERY US ALLIES SNAP AT EACH OTHER
(Opinions/Society)

...their historic experience of pacifying Red Indians and black Africans imported to work on their plantations as slave labor. At the time of 1991 Gulf war I was based in Amman , among others a TV image...

9. LAWYERS GUNS AND MONEY
(Archived/Opinions/Daily)

"Just Put Down That Law Suit, Pardner, and No One Gets Hurt." The Guardian (London) NEW YORK - There are 200 million guns in civilian hands in the United States. That works out at 200 per la