IBM’S DISMAL PLANS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS – by Jim Hightower

The internal memo is dated April 2005 and tagged: "IBM Confidential."

The reason for the hush-hush treatment is that this document is written confirmation of corporate America's intention to offshore our nation's middle-class future, shipping out jobs in engineering and other sciences that require advanced degrees and pay top wages. IBM, the world's largest information technology corporation, has become the leading practitioner of shopping the globe for the cheapest high-tech workers, knocking down the wage floor to the lowest common denominator.

Because of the wrenching economic, social, and political ...   more »

SO IRAQ WAS A GOOD IDEA AFTER ALL? – by Donald Kaul

You can’t pick up your newspaper, listen to your radio or turn on your television set these days without being confronted by a deeply earnest George W. Bush telling you how well the war in Iraq is going. It’s reached the point where I’m afraid to open my closet door for fear he might pop out, ready to make his pitch.

Oh, he made a few mistakes at the beginning, he’ll tell you, but basically the war was a swell idea and it’s working out and he’d do ...   more »

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As we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, let us all reflect on the beatitudes that mark the opening of the Sermon on the Mount, the very first of the Christ’s sermons in the Gospel of St. Matthew (verses 3-10). And let us reflect on the neocons that hijacked the true teachings of Jesus.

JESUS: I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was ...   more »