David Nassar

It has been more than three years since I locked the doors on Walmart Watch, an organization where I was proud to serve as executive director. Since then, Walmart's image has benefited from a lot of waxy polish and less attention, until last week. When the New York Times

For a few weeks now the amount of buzz about the Occupy Wall Street protests has been steadily increasing, spiking with the arrests last weekend and yesterday with the engagement of organized labor unions in the protests. This is despite being largely ignored or dismissed at first by mainstream American...

Today, a 17 year old student in Tunisia, Ayoub al-Hamidi, walked into his principle's office and set himself on fire because he was being restricted from attending the funeral of Mohammed Bouazizi whose own immolation late last year set off the recent protests. This event is yet another tragic consequence...

Lately, there has been a sharp debate in the United States between cable companies, online distributors and mainstream content providers over the cost of content. This intensified most recently when Fox went so far as to black out New York City from the first game of the National League Championship...

For years, I've heard Jim Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute say the following about the Middle East:

"Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, the United States has been more deeply enmeshed and invested in this region than anywhere else. During this nearly forty-year...

I had the opportunity this week to attend a conference in Budapest on internet liberty sponsored by Google and the Central European University. The conference participants included representatives from business, government and civil society*, and featured an open discussion of some of the most intense debates surrounding the internet and...

On May 2, the New York Times ran a story called "36 hours in Beirut" as part of its regular series about short visits to exciting global destinations. This followed on the Times designation of Beirut just last year as the world's number one destination. Later that...

While most of America's businesses are struggling through the recession, Wal-Mart and the Walton Family are raking in billions in profit. There's nothing wrong with making money - but the rest of us are getting poorer as a result. Whether it is the low wages the Waltons pay, the taxes...

This week, Wal-Mart introduced Mike Duke as its new CEO. Regrettably, there is little evidence that he will bring new ideas with him. Like Lee Scott, David Glass and Sam Walton before him -- Mike Duke is a company man who has been with Wal-Mart since 1995. For the past...

Sometimes symbols appear unexpectedly. Jdimytai Damour, a temporary Wal-Mart worker, became a symbol to millions of low-wage workers last Friday when he died a needless death because Wal-Mart failed to take the necessary precautions to protect him. He became a symbol of those workers quietly yielding to unsafe working conditions...

"Wal-Mart Moms" or "Wal-Mart Women" are the new "it" demographic this election cycle. That may be good news for Wal-Mart shoppers, but it is not good news for Wal-Mart.

Like soccer moms and security moms in prior elections, pollsters believe that Wal-Mart Moms will play a key role in choosing...

It is football season again and fans in communities across the country are turning out for high school games. They are probably wearing sweatshirts, t-shirts and other gear to cheer their local team. Unfortunately, if those fans bought their clothing from their local Walmart store, their team is not getting...

Wal-Mart will do anything to keep its employees down.

A story today from the Wall Street Journal lays bare the company's plan to intimidate employees and discourage support of Democratic candidates. Using threats of fewer jobs and lost wages, Wal-Mart managers tried to convince employees not only of the...

Wal-Mart is raising wages for its employees -- in China, that is. Yes, the labor union representing Wal-Mart's Chinese workforce won yet another fight against Wal-Mart, successfully negotiating for an 8 percent raise for 2008 and 2009 as well as setting terms for paid vacation, social security, and overtime....

You might think that Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott learned a lesson from the beating he took a few months ago in the media over the Deborah Shank case, but you'd be wrong. Wal-Mart now seems determined to keep disability benefits from all Americans, not merely its own employees. To make...

It's Wal-Mart Week in Bentonville, Arkansas and the retail giant is throwing its annual celebration for 20,000 of its workers and shareholders, complete with concerts by stars like Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, and Journey. All this serves to distract shareholders from Wal-Mart's failure to address the chronic problems that negatively...

It's tax rebate time, and no one is hungrier for the tax rebate checks arriving in mailboxes today than Wal-Mart. The retailer is advertising tax-rebate sales and has offered to cash the checks for free -- all in hopes that consumers will spend their newfound money at Wal-Mart stores. But...

New video footage of Wal-Mart manager meetings released by the Center for Public Integrity and aired on Dan Rather Reports Tuesday evening, provide a rare and disturbing glimpse into the private culture of the world's largest company.

The footage features several Wal-Mart executives at various meetings...

Wal-Mart's dirty laundry is getting more global exposure today just a week after the Debbie Shank story. It has not been a good month for Wal-Mart public relations. To use a sports term, these are turnovers, and they expose the weaknesses of Wal-Mart's high priced image.

When Wal-Mart Watch...

Debbie Shank used to stock shelves at night for Wal-Mart so she could spend time in the afternoons with her three sons. Now she lives in a nursing home, requires around-the-clock medical care and owes Wal-Mart almost $500,000.

Last November, I wrote about this 52 year-old Missouri woman...