by Barbara Briggs, Special to CorpWatch
September 16th, 2008
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15182
Beneath Toyota’s buffed shine lies a dark undercoat. The Toyota Corporation enjoys a fine reputation for well-built cars, environmental innovation, flexible production lines and effective management practices. But in its quest for ever-increasing efficiency, profitability and growth, the world’s largest auto manufacturer has sparked a race to the bottom that, [...]
Japanese Automobile Corporations Are Better? Toyota’s Race to the Bottom
GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered
by Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/16-6
Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with “light trucks.”
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet [...]
The Bail-Out of Wall Street: Signal of the End of the “Pax Americana”
Huge numbers are flying around these days. Billions and billions of dollars for this firm, for that firm, for the bail-out of Wall Street and the financial services industry. Then there is the “War on Terror” and its two fronts and the billions needed for it. The underlying connection is this: we do not have [...]
