globalization

In Europe, poor countries in economic straightjacket

November 23, 2010 By Emile Schepers

To satisfy the International Monetary Fund, countries like Ireland and Greece have taken drastic anti-worker measures.

Corporate capital has pulled the plug on America

November 23, 2010 By Sam Webb

Is today's corporate elite meaner than capitalists and wealthy families of the previous era? Perhaps, but there are more fundamental reasons for their behavior.

Cutbacks force destitute to line up for food

November 11, 2010 By Morning Star

Hundreds of desperate Romanians left destitute by the country's austerity drive lined up for food aid Wednesday in the Black Sea port of Constanta.

Television gets “Outsourced”

November 2, 2010 By John Feffer

Somehow, an NBC sitcom about U.S. jobs going overseas is becoming a hit.

Organized crime: part of the system in Guatemala

August 30, 2010 By Pablo Monsanto

While thousands of Guatemalans go hungry, everything indicates that the country's crime wave is part and parcel of a neoliberal effort to weaken the state as much as possible.