noam chomsky

What Haiti Produces
by Saab Lofton

"Baseballs are coming along nicely. They're produced in U.S.-owned factories where the women who make them get ten cents an hour -- if they meet their quota. Since meeting the quota is virtually impossible, they actually make something like five cents an hour. Softballs from Haiti are advertised in the U.S. as being unusually good because they're hand-dipped into some chemical that makes them hang together properly. The ads don't mention that the chemical the women hand-dip the balls into is toxic and that, as a result, the women don't last very long at this work."
--Professor Noam Chomsky, from his book, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

Professor Chomsky won a 2005 poll which named him the world's top public intellectual, so he's most trustworthy.

Zack interviews Chomsky on NAFTA and many other issues.

Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities
Noam Chomsky

by Noam Chomsky
Monthly Review (June 2007)