According to Thom Hartmann, Barack Obama is in a tight bind with the wall street bankers. Obama spent almost a billion dollars, mostly funded by these bankers and if he does not, they might go fund the Republican party. He says that years of job outsourcing may have lead to the global financial downfall and that in order for the US to recover it has to start manufacturing its own goods once again.
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Yukio Hatoyama, the outgoing Japanese prime minister, quit earlier this week amid plummeting popularity ratings after he failed to deliver on a campaign promise to relocate a controversial US military base off the island of Okinawa. He had been in office for barely eight months. Inside Story asks if his resignation reflects a growing political instability in Japan.
As Pakistan’s security forces battle Taliban fighters in the northwest and explosions tear through its cities, many are asking if the country is paying the price for the policies of its powerful spy agency – the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Is the ISI safeguarding Pakistani interests in a volatile region, or destabilising the subcontinent by pushing its own agenda?
While everyone piles on Pat Robertson, the rest of the mainstream media is making the same error he did, attributing Haiti’s misery to the supernatural. Avoiding any discussion of the true history of Haiti, and the role of foreign intervention in bringing about Haiti’s poverty and political instability. Danny Glover, Peter Hallward, and Anthony Fenton weigh-in on the roots of Haiti’s misery. For more visit www.therealnews.com.
