The documentary has moments of impact but doesn't have the focus that "Sicko" had and doesn't work when Moore pulls out his "Roger & Me" shtick.
Jose Obdilio Duran's '57 Chevy has holes in its mottled floor, a passenger window that can't be rolled up and no inside panels on its doors. But the 71-year-old retiree wants to put the old car to work — applying for one of the first taxi licenses this communist country has granted in a decade.
YouTube sensation Susan Boyle is set to return to the “Britain’s Got Talent” stage next week, and although she’s already proven that she has a voice worthy of a singing career, that isn’t necessarily what she’s aiming for.
The leaders of France and Germany appeared to put disagreements over economic policy behind them Thursday, calling on the U.S. to join global efforts to address the financial crisis.
When China opened up to capitalists 30 years ago, Jeffrey Lam was one of the pioneers. But the only space he could find for his factory was an old town hall. For workers, he had 25 farmers who had never operated a sewing machine.
Ron Rust and Beve Kozub were poking around the toy booths at China's biggest trade fair two years ago when something caught their eye: pouty-faced baby dolls snuggling in light blue and pink fleece blankets, their eyes tightly shut or gazing with a newborn's woozy stare.
"Ain't no more states gonna join this union. No @!$%#ing way. The only union anyone is gonna join is the E Union. I mean come on now. One currency and multiligiual, plus they got the Riviera, nude beaches, and the Cannes film festival. Sheeeet. I'm going EU baby.
Americans should find this interesting because it is a good photo of European "goulash socialism". For example, ...
. The inconvenient truth, however, is that the mammoth government regulatory schemes discussed at Copenhagen are both prohibitively expensive and unlikely to work -- the worst possible combination in any cost/benefit analysis. There is a better way.
Twenty years ago one of the most important events of the second half of the twentieth century occurred: the collapse of the imperialist bloc of the East and of the European Stalinist regimes, including the principal one: the USSR.
In Copenhagen, Denmark while addressing the UN Climate Conference Hugo Chavez of Venezuela declared that capitalism was the problem and must be thrown out to usher in the world socialism.
Evidently confusing Christmas with April Fool's Day, the Financial Times has named Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein their Person of the Year, applauding the ethical vaccum that allowed him to post record profits and $23 billion bonuses when so many are suffering.
Health Care: Democrats on the take and in the dead of night pass an execrable piece of legislation that they haven't read, the public doesn't want and only socialists could love. What has happened to this country?
To put it plainly, when free marketers warn that Democratic health care initiatives will make us more "like France," a big part of me says, "I wish." It's not that I think it's either feasible or advisable for the United States to adopt a single-payer, government-domi …
The U.S. House is considering reinstituting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which barred bank holding companies from owning other financial companies, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today. More Articles
the broader message from the White House, which has taken political heat for its support of the $700 billion financial bailout, will be that the taxpayer-funded rescue gives the banks an obligation to do more to help the economy. More Articles
Why You're a Moron to Hate Corporations Because They are Profit Seeking Machines: Because you're a profit seeking machine. The corporations haven't run a muck because they are profit seeking machines, they've run completely insane because you keep buying their crap.
Over the past few decades, the United States has steadily evolved from a nation of 'producers' to one of 'consumers'. The change has been celebrated by politicians and economists as proof of America's arrival at the top of the global economic food chain.
Please tell me I'm dreaming!
The independent panel that oversees the government's financial bailout program concluded in a year-end review that, despite flaws and lingering problems, the program "can be credited with stopping an economic panic." More Articles
"Humanity is exceeding the planet's carrying capacity for our species … If the Earth were to suffer a catastrophic…event over the next ten years, which it will, American business would continue to focus on its quarterly profit and loss.
Often we hear how a government is needed because the people are greedy. We hear of the evil capitalist and his crusade for himself. We hear that we must assert control over others because this greedy capitalist will look to keep his job and wealth over the welfare of others.
Living in a democracy can be trying, says Clive James in his weekly column. Until you think of the alternatives.
Climate Change seems to be under attack. I find the reactions to this interesting. There are two extremes in the political climate war.
A Swedish department store has pulled out of what was to be North Korea's debut in Western fashion. Previous article regarding this, with more information.
...the WHO may find itself coughing up explanations, as more and more scientists and health researchers, and even journalists, are starting to question the organization's motives behind raising the alert so quickly.
"The typical American family is struggling with the current recession and is having a hard time pinpointing the nexus of the problem. Some try to argue the failures of capitalism but our current system is more of a corporatocracy. A system designed for the few by the few.