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America’s Failed Mole-by-Mole Trade Policy

By Leo Gerard
February 7, 2012

Last week several groups, including the United Steelworkers, petitioned the federal government to whack the latest trade mole – illegally traded auto parts from China.

With President Obama announcing creation of a new trade enforcement unit in his State of the Union Addre more »

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Retirees Occupy Century Aluminum

By Leo Gerard
January 31, 2012

On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va. In tents and under tarps, a small group stays overnight, despite hypertension, arthritis and other old age ailments. more »

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Emblematic of 1 Percenters, Cooper Tire Punk’d Workers

By Leo Gerard
January 24, 2012

Four years ago, Cooper Tire told its workers they’d have to sacrifice to save the company. With a straight face, Cooper executives said it was essential for the corporation’s survival that workers take tens of millions in pay and benefit cuts. more »

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Traditional Voting Fails; Alternative Works

By Leo Gerard
November 8, 2011

Voting doesn’t work anymore. If it did, Americans would get what they want -- or at least some of it -- from Washington.

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Sacrilege: Wall Street Worship

By Leo Gerard
November 1, 2011

Americans have been worshiping a bull. Too many citizens, and particularly politicians, prostrate themselves to Wall Street’s bronze idol.

They revere financial titans who pay themselves and their minions millions to manipulate money and gamble recklessly. more »

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Years of Discontent Trigger American Autumn

By Leo Gerard
October 7, 2011

To convey the significance of the Occupy Wall Street movement, NBC News anchor Brian Williams this week quoted the 1960s Buffalo Springfield song, For What It’s Worth:

“There is something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.”

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Buy American Jobs

By Leo Gerard
June 15, 2011

Efforts by those who never want to hear someone say, “Bye-bye American manufacturing,” converged coincidentally to make June Buy American month.

First, at the forceful urging of U.S. Sen. more »

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Fix the Hazards; Don’t Blame the Workers

By Leo Gerard
April 28, 2011

The Clearwater Paper Corp. in Lewistown, Idaho chose the king cobra to symbolize its workplace safety program. A cobra. more »

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March to Stop the Freeloaders

By Leo Gerard
April 1, 2011

The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. more »

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False Fear: Cyborgs Instead of CEOs

By Leo Gerard
March 28, 2011

The nightmare for far too many is Cyborgs. The public fears HAL, the 2001 Space Odyssey computer that killed astronauts rather than forfeit its objective.

So terrified of the sentient machine, citizens overlook the allegory. The soft-spoken, reasonable-sounding HAL behaves exactly like a greed-driven, multi-national corporation. The corporate mission is profit. more »

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