A representative from Nike declined an invitation to testify Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that discussed China’s human rights abuses of its minority Muslim Uyghur population and American corporations that could be manufacturing products made with Uyghur slave labor in Xinjiang Province, according to committee members. Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) slammed Nike’s…
Apple, Retail Groups Continue Lobbying Congress On Chinese Slave Labor Bill
April 25, 2021 by
Lobbying disclosure forms filed with Congress this week show that Apple and several retail trade groups continue lobbying on a bill that would crack down on forced labor in China. Apple paid two firms to lobby policymakers on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Washington Post has previously reported that one of Apple’s lobbyists…
Nike Becomes Face of Social Justice Despite History of Employing Slave Labor.
September 6, 2018 by
Despite having a long, documented history of allegedly employing workers at slave wages, the multinational Nike corporation has become the face of the social justice wing of the political left with its newest ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. As Breitbart News reported, the Nike corporation laid off 1,400 Americans just last year […]
More Brazile: Dems Who Want Me to Shut Up Can ‘Go to Hell.’ Also, Team Hillary Treated Me Like a ‘Slave.’
November 6, 2017 by
On Friday, we wrote about former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile’s allegations about the party’s rigging of the 2016 primary — a charge Elizabeth Warren has embraced, incidentally. Additional revelations emerged over the weekend, as did a backlash from Democratic critics of Brazile, who say her claims are far-fetched and inaccurate. We’ll get to the pushback, […]
ISIS Sex Slave Survivor: ‘What They Are Doing to Women Is More Difficult Than Death’
February 18, 2016 by
(Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz) Nadia Murad Basee, a 21-year-old Iraqi woman of the Yazidi faith, speaks to members of the Security Council during a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, December 16, 2015. A 21-year-old Iraqi woman whose family was massacred by the Islamic State terror group while she was kept as a […]
Chinese Immigrant Turned Citizen Defies Obama Gun Grab: “I Will Never Be A Slave Again”
January 10, 2016 by
President Obama knows that the American people have not embraced his radical, leftist gun control agenda. That’s why he took to the stage at a town hall spectacle hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in attempt to defend his unconstitutional executive actions for stealth gun control, and try to convince Americans once and for all that […]