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Industrial Ag Once Again Demanding a Free Pass to Crap in Your Backyard

Tom Philpott, Grist.org. January 12, 2011.

Industrial ag is admitting that it needs to trash its neighbors and the surrounding landscape to thrive. And it wants us to believe that there are no alternatives.

Bailed-Out Companies Spending Big Money to Elect Politicians They Favor

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 25, 2010.

The 23 companies that received a $billion or more in TARP funds gave $1.4 million dollars to candidates in September alone.

Michael Moore: Profits Are Way Up at General Motors ... So Why Aren't They Hiring?

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. August 18, 2010.

"If we want a life worth living for ourselves and our kids, we have to go get it ourselves. We can’t keep waiting for the cavalry to come. That’s because we’re the cavalry."

U.S. Government: Telling Consumers Which Foods Are GM Is "False, Misleading or Deceptive"

Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic. April 28, 2010.

The policy is a direct carry-over from the Bush years. Want fries with that "change?"

The GM Truck That Has Been Burning People Alive for 20 Years

Myron Levin, FairWarning. April 7, 2010.

A design flaw causes a GM truck to burst into flames, yet the feds have done nothing about it.

Thanks to GM, People Are Being Displaced So Their Forests Can Become Offsets for SUVs

Mark Schapiro, Mother Jones. November 18, 2009.

Should we focus on industries paying to preserve distant trees rather than reducing emissions closer to home? It's the question of the day in Washington and Copenhagen.

U.S. Car Buyers Still Want Gas Guzzlers: GM Executive

Agence France Presse August 6, 2009.

"It remains a fact that the American public buys big, high consumption cars," GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said this week, adding it's "wrong to hope that Americans will massively rush to economical vehicles."

Bankrupt GM Begins Slashing Jobs

Harry Hanbury, American News Project. June 24, 2009.

Despite the government's efforts to keep GM afloat, the company is hemorrhaging jobs.

Obama, GM and Silly Psuedo-Constitutional Arguments

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 14, 2009.

The Beltway media gives credence to, and amplifies, every partisan accusation, no matter how thin.

Michael Moore: 10 Steps Obama Should Take for the Future of GM

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. June 1, 2009.

The President -- and the United Auto Workers -- must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.

Obama's Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad

William Greider, The Nation. May 11, 2009.

Can someone explain how outsourcing the auto industry is in our national interest?

Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout

Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. December 20, 2008.

Yet another example of the right-wing agenda to do away with labor rights.

Republicans' Opposition to Detroit Bailout Is Union-Busting of Another Kind

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 17, 2008.

I still underestimate the peculiar genius conservative Republicans show in exploiting dire, even tragic, situations to wield a partisan cudgel.

A Bad Auto Bailout Is Cheaper Than Any Bank Bailout

deleted, AlterNet. December 9, 2008.

Whether or not bailing out the Big Three makes financial sense (which it doesn't), it's still a fraction of the cost of bailing out Wall Street.

Slashing Wages Will Hurt Workers, But It Won't Save the Big Three

Jane Slaughter, Mark Brenner, Labor Notes. December 8, 2008.

Some conservatives are using inaccurate numbers to pin the blame for Detroit's pain on union workers.

Michael Moore: Save the Auto Industry and Kick Its CEOs to the Curb

Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 5, 2008.

These auto execs don't deserve a dime. Fire all of them, and take over the industry for the good of the workers, the country and the planet.

Obama, the Senate, and China ... All Eying the Big 3

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake. November 21, 2008.

"If I was GM’s CEO, I’d be on a plane to China."

Why We Shouldn't Bail Out GM

Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. November 20, 2008.

The bailout should be used to expand unemployment compensation instead of propping up a single, failing corporation.

Fat-Cat Automakers Beg for Taxpayer Money While Flying in Private Jets

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. November 19, 2008.

If they had flown first-class it would have been embarrassing. But company-owned private jets?

George Bush Is Using GM to Screw the Environment One Last Time

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake. November 17, 2008.

Big Oil, still in the White House.

Pigs with Mouse Genes: How GM Animals May Be Entering the Food Chain without Labeling

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. October 30, 2008.

The FDA may be taking the public, and nature, down a dangerous path.

GM's Dark Ages Approach to Global Warming

Laurie David, Huffington Post. February 28, 2008.

GM's vice chairman's stance on global warming could explain why the company is doing so dismally.

Autoworkers Gave up Much Without a Fight

Eve Tahmincioglu, Huffington Post. November 6, 2007.

The threat of offshoring and declining membership has left the big industrial unions more conciliatory than ever.

Massive Inequality is Unexamined Fault Line Behind GM Walk-Out

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. October 2, 2007.

The brief national strike against America's biggest automaker has a good bit to tell us about the gap that divides the awesomely affluent in the United States from everyone else.

UAW Swaps Next Generation's Wages, Benefits for U.S. Jobs

Mark Trumbull, Christian Science Monitor. October 1, 2007.

New Fund secures healthcare for retirees even if General Motors goes bankrupt.