Friday, November 28, 2008

137 - The Right's Big Lie About Upcoming Labor Legislation / A Primer On How The West Uses Right-Wing Ideology To Economically Exploit The Third World

Today, you'll hear how to debunk a bald-faced lie the right is propagating about upcoming, critically important labor union legislation, the Employee Free Choice Act.

This bill is labor's number one priority in Congress, and the right has declared war on it.

Next, I'll give you a short primer on what I call the four pillars, the four ways the right in the Western world economically exploits the Third World.

The four pillars you'll hear explained are:

1 - sweetheart contracts for natural resource extraction
2 - unfair conditions of international trade
3 - dubious loans to corrupt Third World governments
4 - imposition of onerous Structural Adjustment Programs on loan recipient nations

Understanding 1-4 above is key to interpreting so much of what you read about foreign affairs in the corporate-owned press.

(PS: Right-wingers, if you want to write in to me, fine, but at least do me the courtesy of listening to the podcast first. Please don't respond just on the basis of the brief preview above. Thanks!!)

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