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How Nightline Blew the iSweatShop Story

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 04.29.2012

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Peter Navarro and Greg Autry

You cannot really talk about why Apple products are produced in Shenzhen without dealing with the most important source of China's competitive edge: It's unfair trade practices.

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Average-Joe Millionaires Turn Out For Apple Shareholder Meeting

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012

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Ever wish you'd gotten in on the ground floor of a company like Apple, Google or Microsoft? Apple's most recent shareholder meeting, which took pl...

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A "Capitalist Tool's" Defense of Apple Morphs into an Anti-Obama Screed

William K. Black | Posted 04.07.2012

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William K. Black

Contrary to a recent screed by Rich Karlgaard, taxing corporations is not an "anti-business" policy, and all modern presidents have taxed corporations. A "tax holiday" is an extraordinary subsidy to corporations that already pay an exceptionally low effective income tax rate.

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Bring Fair Trade to Electronics

Yu Zhou | Posted 03.30.2012

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Yu Zhou

Debates in the United States in response to these disclosures have been how to assign blame or whether consumers can force Apple to be more ethical. This is not enough. The problems are certainly not limited to Apple or Foxconn.

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Why Steve Jobs Is Not My Hero?

Saad Khan | Posted 12.26.2011

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Saad Khan

Now that three weeks have passed since Jobs' demise, it is time to look beyond the glorification and dissect some hidden aspects of his life. He could have changed the world but he chose to think like the others.

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Foxconn Suicide: Eighth Suicide defends labor practices after 8th suicide

Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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AP TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics, insisted Wednesday its treatment of ...

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