Fund Spins Positive Face on Ja Deal

The International Monetary Fund has put out a video that sells its new $1.25 billion agreement with Jamaica in a positive light. Past agreements in the 1970s and 80s resulted in severe hardships on wage earners, as public sector jobs were cut, social services reduced or eliminated and public assets sold.

About Mark Lee

Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.

To Rachel Maddow: On the State of the Union

The USA’s bubble has burst (or is at best losing air fast). To further compound this, the USA continues to prosecute wars it can ill afford. Main Street is convinced that President Obama has access to some economic and other leavers which, in less than a year, should have been effectively manipulated to reinstate the old status and magically decrease unemployment. But think again

About Mark Lee

Mark Lee has been a long-time journalist writing, editing and producing in print, radio television and new media.