Spreading Weapons in the Name of Peace

| Nov 8, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHey, Bucko. Stop whining about this sour economy, and start thinking about the plight of others. For example: arms dealers. You’ve probably paid no attention to the hard fact that the global recession caused worldwide arms sales to plummet by 8.5 percent last...

Free Trade: A Corporate Scam

| | Economy / BusinessCheapest imports I can find; Come from sweat shops? I don’t mind. Free trade isn’t the only thing ruining America, but it’s a biggie. The most obvious reason is that so many jobs have gone overseas. You’d think economists might feel a duty to...

Outsourcing Television

| Nov 1, 2010 | Economy / BusinessThe unemployment rate remains near double digits and many Americans have simply stopped looking for work. Yet somehow an NBC sitcom about U.S. jobs going overseas is becoming a hit. The show, called Outsourced, revolves around an American manager running a call center...

Let’s Get Sensible about Immigration

| Jul 26, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyOn Mother’s Day, three months before Arizona’s draconian new immigration law was to go into effect, a mother of two addressed a vigil outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center. The woman had been intercepted, without papers,...