Category Archives: globalization

Barbecued mystery meat, compliments of WTO

Posted on July 5, 2012 by oddmanout215

I hope you had a delicious Fourth of July. As noted in Public Citizen, “your holiday meat could be much more mysterious” next year: If you’re looking forward to grilling up some hamburgers and hot dogs, think about this: Where … Continue reading →

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Sorkin channels Howard Beale in ‘The Newsroom’

Posted on June 26, 2012 by oddmanout215

Here’s Ta-Nehisi Coates, an Atlantic editor and blogger, quoting from Aaron Sorkin’s “deeply unpleasant, condescending and sexist” interview with the Globe and Mail: “I think I would have done very well, as a writer, in the forties,” [Sorkin] says. “I … Continue reading →

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America colonized again

Posted on May 14, 2012 by oddmanout215

From The National Employment Law Project, May 10: Long-term unemployed workers in a growing list of states are being abruptly cut from federal unemployment insurance, a new analysis from the National Employment Law Project shows. Due to reductions Congress enacted … Continue reading →

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When will Obama ‘evolve’ on jobs?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by oddmanout215

From MoveOn.org: Breaking: The Obama Announcement That May Just Make You Cry And after the sappy headline: Yes! We couldn’t be more excited! As MoveOn Executive Director Justin Ruben puts it: “This is a historic day. The president’s support for … Continue reading →

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It’s the jobs market, stupid

Posted on May 6, 2012 by oddmanout215

Last week I noted that Mitt Romney — insipid, empathy-free, and a congenital liar — was a gift from the gods to the Barack Obama re-election campaign. But even the gift of Mittens won’t help Obama if he continues to … Continue reading →

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Zizek on OWS: Where to next?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by oddmanout215

Bill O’Reilly recently denounced liberal economist Robert Reich as a communist, and Reich responded to this absurd charge by challenging O’Reilly to debate him. The debate I’d like to see, which will never take place, would be between O’Reilly and … Continue reading →

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U.S. is leader of the pack — in poverty rates

Posted on April 10, 2012 by oddmanout215

In an article in Boston Review, Paul Osterman notes that income inequality in the United States is much greater than in northern Europe, and that the situation here could improve if our government focused on raising and enforcing labor standards, … Continue reading →

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Why liberalism is on life-support

Posted on April 9, 2012 by oddmanout215

Why do so many so-called liberal politicians in our time openly embrace cultural liberalism — i.e., equal rights for blacks, women, gays and other groups — while running like hell from the sort of economic liberalism that made the New … Continue reading →

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Big media help push big tax lie

Posted on April 1, 2012 by oddmanout215

Why do Republican politicians boldly tell lies that could easily be refuted by the mainstream media? Easy answer — the media’s “he said, she said” approach to reporting encourages the pols to keep lying. One of the GOP’s most frequently … Continue reading →

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In D.C., ‘fat cat’ is a term of endearment

Posted on March 18, 2012 by oddmanout215

The worst social sickness of our time, the one that might eventually bring down this country, is the growing divide between rich and poor. But you rarely see honest stories about this sickness in our mainstream media, because to acknowledge … Continue reading →

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