Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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News World Economy Needs a New Deal
I n the great and growing debate over globalization and outsourcing, there are always new arguments from both sides — from those who look upon these recent developments as a boon to the world economy and those who look upon the same developments as certain to bring gloom to the world economy. One of the…
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News Labor Takes Up Case Against Beijing
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the umbrella outfit that speaks for the American trade union movement, has filed a complaint that calls upon the U.S. government to take action against China to protest Beijing’s total disregard of worker rights. The complaint — the first of its kind — is based…
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News An American Tragedy: Hanging Up on Workers
There is a town in Kentucky named Hazard. By some turn and twist of fate, the name was tragically prophetic. What not too many years ago was hailed as a great good fortune has turned out to be a miserable misfortune. The national spotlight first fell on Hazard in 1999, when Bill Clinton came in…
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News The Blood of Martyrs
While on a recent trip to Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld predicted that Osama bin Laden would be captured “at some point.” The scuttlebutt is that such a “capture” seems likely to come near enough to Election Day to provide President Bush with the votes necessary to lift him out of his sagging standing…
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News From Haiti’s Chaos, a Lesson About Iraq
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has fled his country in a recurrence of the violent disorder that has haunted the history of Haiti over and over again. Superficially, this should not be so. Some 95% of the population is descended from slaves. Haiti, which is smaller than Maryland, has a population of less than 7 million. All…
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News Blind Blundering on Tax Cuts
Once again, Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan has proven his genius as a master of what George Orwell called “doublethink.” In one simple sentence, he can predict opposite outcomes and speak the truth at the same time. As our modern Delphic oracle, he might produce a weather forecast in which he says, “It will…
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News Order Emerges From the Chaos of the Primaries
For a while there it looked as if the Democratic Party was committing suicide on television. A dozen or so aspirants repeatedly made public appearances during which they assailed one another with words that could come back to haunt their party’s ultimate candidate for president. The format in which they appeared encouraged such a bloody…
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News The Truth About Libya
Why did Libya’s stiff-necked Muammar Gadhafi agree to get rid of all weapons of mass destruction? In his State of the Union address, President Bush offered an explanation. The overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq was a warning to Gadhafi that if he did not behave he might well be next. This is the most…
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