Internet Censorship Could Be Challenged By WTO
GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered onli...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered onli...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
The USW is in solidarity with Chinese and Indonesian workers who suffer abuse at the hands of their employers. It is governmental policies that injure us both and that we oppose. China cheats.
David Segal | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Former Washington governor Gary Locke has worked hard to minister to the needs of the hometown corporation. Since being appointed as commerce secretary, he has an even higher perch from which he can do so.
AP | By TOM RAUM | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
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AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 09.15.2009 | World
BEIJING — As Beijing launched a case Monday against new U.S. tariffs on Chinese tires, President Barack Obama defended the duties, saying tradin...
Jim Arkedis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
The WTO's ruling late last week in a case involving Boeing and European arch-rival Airbus is a big and welcome victory that shows rule-based trade works.
AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
GENEVA — American goods will face around $295 million in annual sanctions as a result of the United States' failure to eliminate illegal subsidi...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 09.04.2009 | Business
Why does the U.S. put up with unfair trade with China?
Alan Schram | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business
The Chinese economy is posting impressive growth of almost 8% annually, even as the rest of the world is going through excruciating economic pain. How is that resilience possible?
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment
Corporations don't always do what's right. Maybe they can't. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want to but the shareholders wouldn't like it. Cue: The Yes Men.
The Plumline | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
Liberal groups allied with the White House are fuming -- mostly in private -- about some comments President Obama made yesterday attacking a provision...
GlobalPost | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
SAN FRANCISCO The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the Unite...
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
Though Obama has enough on his plate, if time and energy can be directed at China because of export trade constraints, then certainly action against the OPEC cartel is long overdue.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
It is time to look ahead instead of look behind. It is time to leave the fears of the baby boomers behind and embrace the developing world once and for all.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
It appears that international efforts to slow the pace of worldwide climate disruption could also run up against powerful interests who advocate a "fundamentalist" conception of intellectual property.
Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy
1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is easy to justify on the basis of guaranteeing the basic human rights of working Americans.
Randy Charles Epping | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
By getting our leaders to open the world's borders to trade, we not only help ourselves: we help developing countries of the world and become true partners in a renewed 21st century economy.
Jake Colvin | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
The current economic climate presents a real danger to international stability and, ultimately, to U.S. national security. The time is right for a renewed commitment to trade.
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
At least 17 of the 20 major nations that vowed at a November summit to avoid protectionist steps that could spark a global trade war have violated tha...
Jake Colvin | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
The steps countries take over the coming months to respond to the global financial crisis will help determine whether the world is destined to learn from or repeat past mistakes.
Robert Creamer | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
A good case can be made that the massive globalization of labor and financial markets, coupled with "free markets uber alles" policies, formed a toxic mixture that made the collapse inevitable. Here's why.
Rob Kall | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
What do you call someone who unnecessarily puts one of America's biggest industries at serious risk and sells out millions of his country's workers abilities to make an honest living?
Reuters | Michael Szabo | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
Rich nations should make the first cuts in greenhouse gases while developing countries carry on business as usual for the time being, according to a p...
Reuters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology