What Values Will Guide Our Future in an Era of Globalization?
Finding a common human unity is a long road
While globalization is seen as one of the most serious threats to human freedom, to economic democracy, ecological health and much more, it may not be all bad. It may, in fact, depend on whos doing it, and why.
In his book, Predatory Globalization, Princeton Professor Richard Falk, writes, The phenomenon of globalization represents mainly material developments that reflect the ... Next >>
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Making Sense Out of the WTO
As everyone now knows, the World Trade Organization's (WTO) meeting in Seattle was interrupted by protestors who were mostly peaceful. Over-reaction by local police led to the "Battle of Seattle." As an acknowledgment of this over-reaction, the Seattle chief of police has now resigned.[1]
The main goal of the WTO's Seattle meeting was to begin a new round of international talks, the so-called "millennium round," which was expected to last 3 years. That goal was ... Next >>
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What Next After the Battle of Seattle?
by Colin Hines Making Sense Out of the WTO
Tony Blair once said that 'Globalisation is irreversible and irresistible'. That is a very 'New' Labour statement, but after the Battle of Seattle, very wrong. There were in fact two battles that halted the march of globalisation, the well publicised one on the streets and the equally significant one inside the World Trade Organisation meeting. At packed public meetings and rallies before and during the WT... Next >>
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Trade for Regional Self-Reliance
by Michael Towsey and Dhanjoo Ghista
"It is patent that in our days not alone is wealth accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination is concentrated in the hands of a few .... This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as ... Next >>
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Third World Agriculture: A Proutist Approach
Thirty farmers in Andhra Pradesh commit suicide -- ironically, by consuming the same poisonous pesticides which were partly responsible for the loss of their crops. Over one hundred thousands farmers demonstrate furiously in Meerut ... in Gujarat restive farmers burn buses ... in Maharashtra they stop rail and road traffic. Underground water sources are being drained dry, fertile agricultural lands are becoming wastelands at an ever-increasing rate... Next >>
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