Dan Kovalik graduated from Columbia Law School in 1993 and has been a labor lawyer for the USW ever since. He is also a lawyer for Colombian Plaintiffs in human rights cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum.
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On September 15, 2011, I wrote to Rev. Msgr. Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, the First Counsellor of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy…
Most telling about the AP story this morning regarding the death of E. Howard Hunt is what is glossed over in this…
There have been numerous reports in the U.S. media about how the press in Iran aggressively challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during…
There is now quite a bit of hand-ringing about the past of Iran’s president-elect, especially as to whether, as a youth, he…
On December 13, 1998, the Colombian Air Force, which has received millions of dollars of assistance from Occidental Petroleum, bombed the small…
During the current election campaign, there is much discussion of the U.S.’s "war on terror." While this discussion focuses almost entirely upon…
Recently, the RAND National Defense Research Institute published a report entitled, "Arms Trafficking and Colombia." As RAND explains, the report is based…
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