Made in China

For those of you who have garnered some small pleasure from reading my previous compositions, I present to you this short diatribe.Last month, I happened upon several online news articles reporting that one of...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says it all - shop USA

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke practiced free trade heresy when he says people should spend their economic stimulus money on domestically produced items to best stimulate the economy.  If former Fed...

Is Bin Laden a Liberal Democrat?

It must make Liberal Democrats uncomfortable to hear Bin Ladens rant on the new video. He hit all the Democrat talking points. Does it make Dems nervous that Bin Laden is on the same page as them? Does he sound...

"Faith-based investing" and total economic collapse

"In looking at the various instances of bad economic news over the last few days, I've been struck once again by how the supposedly rational, logical, God-forbid-we-regulate-it-because-it-works-fine-on-its-own free market is driven by the very human fears, frailties, and...

Expert Health Bloggers, Barack Obama and Cookie Monster are uniting to keep c...

Leading toy-maker Mattel has just announced a humiliating recall of children’s toys due to another lead paint scare involving an outsourced Chinese contractor. The poisonous toys are limited to a single run of products put together between April 19 and July 6 of this...

A proposal for a progressive agenda

"...Fundamentally, the ideas of the modern Republican Party leadership have been found incapable of addressing the problems facing the United States, both domestically and internationally. Thankfully, progressives have their own ideas that will prove successful at addressing...

India's Great Paradox

INDIA TODAY "The first day in India, every foreigner is convinced he can write a book about it. After a year of living here, he realizes he can't write one meaningful sentence about it." - Former president of...

Women, Migration And Globalization : Where We Stand??

In the current phase of globalization, international migration motivated by economic reasons is a phenomenon that affects increasing numbers of people, households and communities worldwide. In order to maintain contact with their families and communities of origins, migrants...

Fair Trade: An alternative economic model

"Globalization. Its supporters say it's opening up world markets to producers from Montreal to Maputo. Its detractors claim globalization does little more than allow producers to acquire their goods from...

New Realism, A Progressive Foreign Policy - Democratic Party

Presidential Candidate, Gov. Bill Richardson spoke at The Center for Strategic and International Studies. There he outlined a Progressive Foreign Policy for America’s future.

Lumber Consolidation

"the merger of Abitibi and Bowater is only the begining of consolidation in the lumber industry in order to compete globally. Having been hewers of wood for America, the lumber industry in Canada failed to develop secondary and tertiary industries and markets that could meet...

Poor Protest Against WSF

"Following up on the Global Warming conference which the UN held in Narobi, the movers and shakers of the anti globalization movement also held their World Social Forum this year in Nairobi, Kenya. And ironically this progressive alternative to the Davos World EconomicForum,...

Unemployment Breeds Terrorism

"The reason for the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its allies across the Middle East, including those with divergent ideologies such as Hamas, Hizbollah, Al Quadia, the insurrgents in Iraq, etc. is simple and as obvious as the nose on your face; it has to do with...

Trilateral Commission

" Rona Ambrose was a Member of the Trilateral Commission as reported in Vancouver's Georgia Straight, August 24, 2006. Well shucks who knew. The Trilateral Commission is the public face of the those other secret societies of the corporatist ruling class like the...

Nobel Winner Warns of Dangers of Globalization

"Dr. Yunus, 66, then took a direct jibe at the United States for its war on terror, telling about 1,000 dignitaries at Oslo’s City Hall that recent American military campaigns in Iraq and elsewhere had diverted global resources and attention from a more pressing project:...

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