Is Clinton Dyslexic? The Real Crisis.
According to CNN Clinton said that "Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises."
I think she must have meant that a global economic crisis can't interfere with human rights and security. Without these basic rights everything else is moot. Money and security mean very little without human liberties. Turning a blind eye to human rights while seeking economic benefit is no better than abusing those right ourselves.
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The Next Reason for Global Environmentalism
China has reported a sharp uptick in the number of birth defects in their country. Even their insane government admits this is due to pollution.
It should go without saying, but I sure hope everyone realizes that pollution doesn't need a visa. Expect China's troubles to become the world's troubles. Though this isn't a China-only issue. The whole world needs to get dead-serious about the growing inhospitability our planet, and we need to do it yesterday. Read more [...]
A Note to Chinese People and the Chinese Government
I just read an article written by the Associated Press detailing how the Chinese people feel betrayed by the west because of the incidents surrounding the Olympics. Demand better of the people that lead you— just as I demand better of the people that lead me. Read more [...]
Ignoring China Won't Change China
Konnie Huq nearly had the Olympic torch snatched out of her hands, but even that wasn't enough to make her reconsider what the Olympics in China means. Nor will I allow people to make the audacious claim that participating in the Olympics will bring change. Read more [...]
Cuba Versus China (the politics of being useful)
NY Times (A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears) The question Americans should be asking is: Why is it that Cuba is so bad but China is okay? Why is it that China kills, tortures, and suppresses its people and gets to host the Olympics, while Cuba keeps getting punched in the throat? Read more [...]
Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?
Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights. Read more [...]
US Government's Slippery Slope Into Our Lives Doesn't Excuse China or the US Companies that Help China
The TechDirt article gets all antsy about folks in congress not liking US companies helping China's evil government when we are doing essentially the same thing here in the US, but instead of saying that it is time to check our own policies and stop US companies from doing inhuman things the author simple concludes that: ...unless we're willing to look at the same issues in the US, it seems rather hypocritical to complain about US firms supplying the technology for China to do something quite similar to what we're doing at home. Read more [...]
Yahoo Just Doesn't Care about Human Rights
It has been said before on this little blog that Yahoo is a bad company for helping the Chinese government jail people for speaking out, but Yahoo just won't admit to anyone that they did something bad. Read more [...]
Secret Shame: why I don't use Yahoo
would like people believe it cares (it doesn't), so its spokesperson reminds us all that Companies doing business in China must comply with Chinese law or its local employees could be faced with civil and criminal penalties. Changing the way American companies do business in China can only be positive— ultimately business won't be lost because the Chinese government wants China to be modern and global. Read more [...]
