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#201   INDEX FOR CURRENT NEWS ISSUES

#219  POLITICAL NEWS—DECEMBER & JANUARY OF 08

#218  POLITICAL NEWS—OCTOBER & NOVEMBER of 07

#217  POLITICAL NEWS—AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 07

#204  Cartoons

#209  THE ARTISTS

#202  South America

#208  Peoples’ socialist movements   

#203  Corporate

#210  International news

#231   U.S. International Policy

#211  Vote counting fraud

#230   Washington Watch

 

#216   POLITICAL NEWS—JUNE & JULY of 07

#215   POLITICAL NEWS—APRIL & MAY of 07

#214   Political news—February & March 07

#213   Political news—December & January of 06-07

#212   Political news—October & November of 06

#207   Political news—August & Sept 06

#206   Political news—June & July 06

#205  Political news--April & May 06

 

 

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#7 Skeptically library, over over 1,000 articles and as much art.   

 

#1 Enlightenment, collection of the best

 

#31 Health, medical science, drugs,  over 400 evidence based articles and as much art

 

 

Political-economic sites:

#21  Muckraking political articles

#23  Critical of capitalism

#25  Bush bashing

#112 Bush watch

#103 Parliament of whores

#104 Government, Presidency, Congress, Courts

#106 Economics

#111 World Trade Organization

#116 OIL

#117 Federal court system

#12   Penal system

#14   Labor

#28   Nuclear war threat

#118 Iraq war, wars

#41   Medical business abuses

 

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Abdul Mati Klarwein

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Todd Schorr

Robert Venosa

Michael Whelan

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NEOLIBERALISM

 

There is an evil afoot, neoliberalism.  It is neither new nor liberal, but the organized effort of multinational corporations and international banks to increase their profits.  In the developed nations they have been the principle contributors to the politicians and parties that support their flat-world policies.  And in the third world through the WTO and IMF (their tools) they have set out a broad agenda and won support through loans of which a portion is siphoned off.  These loans come with clauses that require adopting flat-world policies:  Policies that require opening the resources, the media, the utilities, and banking, the borders, and the very market place to being taken over by international banking and corporations.  These polices are promulgated through trade treaties with titles such as NAFTA, CAFTA, and MAFTA.  There are clauses in these trade treaties which permit the overriding of local environmental, commerce, and tariff laws.  National sovereignty is sold for political donations made by big business.    

 

These policies have resulted in the out sourcing of jobs, the flood of tariff-free goods, the flood of undocumented workers, the reduction in the pay for skilled labor, the breaking of unions, the reduction of social services, the reduction of corporate taxes and the tax on the top 1%, and the financial burden and instability associated with a national debt that is 7% of our GDP.  There is an evil afoot, neoliberalism.  In the past 30 years productivity has gone up over 40%, yet real wages (including benefits) have gone down.  Family income has remained level because now two earn the income of one.  In 1950s, there were very few working mothers.  History is repeating itself:  the flat worlders, driven by profits, are taking us to 1929. 

 

Greed is greed, and what benefits one group comes at an expense to society.  Our corporate media has sold the public on the virtues of Neoliberalism.  California Skeptics are publishing articles which show why you shouldn’t be sold on their policies.  The results speak of its failures.  Populace movements in South America have in a few nations elected governments which reject these policies.  Articles on the WTO and there opposition have been published by us. 

If their lips move, they lie!