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Apple admits using child labour

By Sumaira Bajwa • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Technology

At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
Apple also has factories working for it in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the [...]



Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe

By Guest Blogger • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on [...]