The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the US government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest.
Amidst the flurry of figures released, a striking detail emerged: a whopping 1.2 million jobs previously held by native-born workers were lost, and, interestingly, this void was filled with a significant rise in foreign-born employment, amounting to 668,000.
The good news is the crisis could lead to a return to limited constitutional government, a true free-market economy free of corporations and cronyism, a foreign policy based on peace and free trade, and a free-market monetary system.