Obama Solution to Stop Outsourcing – Stop Counting Jobs Outsourced (No, Seriously!)

by MikeIlk, Firedoglake The numbers are outrageous, sickening even. How can anyone stand to look at them? Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are [...]

From New York to Liberia, Greg Palast Tracks Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt

(unregulated free market banking running amok throughout the world. The suffering and misery they are causing is unprecedented in modern history. The “terrorists” have nothing on these bastards.) from Democracy Now Part 1 “Welcome to Liberia in West Africa, where 80 percent of the people survive on less than a single dollar a day. Now [...]

Todays “Neoliberalization of America” News – March 4, 2010

Obama urges swift passage of his cost-cutting health care plan – WSWS – “There are some who have suggested scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with government-run health care. Though many other countries have such a system, in America it would be neither practical nor realistic.” Obama. Such a system would be [...]