If American dollars are going to continue to fund global inequality, arms and weaponry, and support corruption throughout the world, counter to the desires and directions of the global progressive majority - then the solution is to devaluate the US dollar.

Global thinkers have seen this as the solution to growing international problems since the Vietnam War, if not before.

Implementation comes through two strategies: by (1) refusing to recognize or accept the US dollar on international money markets (oil, trading, etc., SEE OPEC) (2) require the US to pay back their foreign debts to the countries they owe (the list would give most Americans nightmares) in those countries' currencies, NOT by accepting more US dollars printed in the basement of the Federal Treasury.

What the hell is going on in Ivory Coast? You'd never know from the North American mainstream media.

The received wisdom as reported by our newspapers and broadcasters is that there's a president (bad) who lost an election and won't give up power, plus another president (good) who won that same election and is quite properly trying to get the power to which he's entitled.

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In the fall of 2008, decades of finance-first, bankers-know-best economic policies coalesced to create one of the worst economic crises in history, one that the banks themselves could not survive without staggering levels of government support.

Yet astonishingly, nearly two years after the crash, Wall Street is still setting the economic agenda in Washington. As Congress begins to examine broader economic policy, lawmakers are under heavy Wall Street pressure to reduce the federal budget deficit -- even though that could mean deepening the jobs crisis without any substantive economic benefits.

Small-bore reforms

On Friday, we learned that the U.S. unemployment rate officially broke 10% for the first time since the early Reagan years. This is about as bad as it gets for a modern, developed economy. No economic force takes a heavier toll on a society than rampant joblessness, and few personal setbacks take a deeper psychological toll than being out of a job for months on end. If Congress and President Obama don’t do something to create jobs fast, both are going to pay a hefty political price when next year’s mid-term elections roll around.