Time for Congress to Face Facts: They Are the Death Panel

David Paul, 09.12.2009

President of the Fiscal Strategies Group

For two decades now, we have become accustomed to justifying any manner of spending, from education to tax cuts, as an investment in our future.

Outsourcing Assassination: to China?

John Feffer, 09.25.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

Look, if we're going to outsource, we should outsource to the experts. The Chinese. They make our computers. Why not give them the task of assassinating jihadists?

Teleradiology as an Option for Non-Radiologists Who Self- Refer

Helene Pavlov, 09.12.2009

M.D., F.A.C.R., Radiologist in Chief at Hospital for Special Surgery

Patients should always ask who is performing, reading and interpreting their imaging studies? Collaboration between radiologists and clinicians have the greatest potential for diagnosis and treatment.

Lobbyists Paid Off by China vs. 30,000 U.S. Workers: Which Side Will Obama Choose?

Mike Elk, 09.11.2009

Campaign for America's Future

So far over 8,000 people have lost their jobs, and over 20,000 more jobs are at risk if the Chinese are allowed to continue with this strategy of not obeying trade laws.

Misuse Of The Words Protectionism And Trade Is Making Us Poorer

Dave Johnson, 09.03.2009

"Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere."

Making things in America is crucially important to our future economy. But it matters as much that we use the right words as that we explore the right ideas and policies.

GE Moves Green Jobs To China

Mike Elk, 08.24.2009

Campaign for America's Future

In the last decade, GE has closed over fifteen factories in Ohio and downsized numerous others. Since 1980, employment in GE Lighting has dropped by 68 percent.

GE Promotes Manufacturing Jobs in US, Then Ships 'em Overseas

Mike Elk, 08.21.2009

Campaign for America's Future

Without a new American manufacturing policy there will be no economic recovery. We need to move beyond a bubble economy built on debt and financial speculation and into a real economy that actually makes products.

Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess - and It's a Mess

Frank Naif, 08.14.2009

Intelligence And US Army Veteran

The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.

A Fashion Foreign Policy

Michael Likosky, 08.12.2009

Author of Obama's Bank (Cambridge University Press 2009)

To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.

IBM Trifecta: Files For Offshoring Patent, Offshores Jobs, Applies for Stimulus Funds

Dawn Teo, 05.01.2009

Arizona Politics

IBM is currently seeking $30 billion in stimulus money to create 1 million jobs. CEO Sam Palmisano even met with Obama at the White House to discuss I...

Outsourced to Bobby Jindal

Sandip Roy, 04.01.2009

Editor, New America Media

In tearing into Bobby Jindal's response to Obama's speech last week, Chris Matthews said, "They had to outsource the response." Interesting choice of words.

Ultimate Outsourcing: Americans Abroad

Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, 03.26.2009

Author of Get Ahead By Going Abroad and an upcoming book on Raising Global Children

It's being called the ultimate outsourcing: Americans looking for jobs overseas. This role reversal may seem scary, but it reflects the future of global commerce.

Green IT: A New Breed Of Technician

Jean Jerome Baudry, 02.12.2009

Although computers and technology has improved our standard of living immensely, IT technicians are still not regarded with the prestige and respect they have struggled to earn over the years.

The Shenzhenian Candidate: Meg Whitman Wants to be Governor of California

Chris Kelly, 05.16.2009

Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher

Meg Whitman's real expertise is in globalization. Which is the nice way of saying Asian sweatshops. I'm not saying everything Whitman touches turns to slave labor, I'm just not saying it doesn't.

Blackwater's Drag On US Efforts Abroad

Frank Naif, 01.21.2009

Intelligence And US Army Veteran

Notorious security company Blackwater is back in the news, just in time to remind us (again) how over-reliance on contractors for sensitive security missions is hurting American effectiveness abroad.

The Dangers of Outsourcing Activism: An Open Letter to Gay Civil Rights Advocates

Gary Cohan, 12.25.2008

Physician, Radio Host, Author, Civil Rights Activist

Why has the gay community -- and the organizations that supposedly represent us -- embraced "outsourced" activism as our central political strategy in recent years?

Adopt-A-Republican

Andrea Chalupa, 12.12.2008

Editor at Walletpop

I hate to say this, because President-Elect Obama is setting the example for us to be nice and dignified and stop all the political/cultural warfare t...

McCain Wrong, Real Estate Prices Must Devalue

Vanessa Edwards Foster, 11.15.2008

Either American living standards must continue eroding at a shocking pace, or the costs of these living standards must come down accordingly in order to give American workers a chance to compete for jobs.

Our Government's New Welfare-to-Workfare

Michael Likosky, 11.14.2008

Author of Obama's Bank (Cambridge University Press 2009)

Our ability to weather many of the country's gravest challenges, like World War II, depended upon government and industry working together to advance the public interest.

Women May Be Most Affected By Economic Crisis And Election

Susan Kelley-Stamerra, 10.27.2008

If women aren't looked after in this election, in this economic environment, the losses will be substantial and lasting.

Former Colombia Foreign Minister Argues For An Extension Of Tough U.S. Drug Plan And Free Trade, Supports McCain

Diane Tucker, 10.15.2008

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

I think Senator McCain will probably win in November because what North Americans value most is security, stability and experience, and that is McCain.