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5th Oct 07, Jerome I. Levinson, Foreign Policy in Focus The race for the presidency has crystallized the debate about what to do about "globalization," a short-hand way of describing the increasing tendency of firms to locate production abroad, often for the purpose of exporting goods back to the United States rather than producing for the local market. Firms not only have moved production abroad but also in collective bargaining negotiations often use the threat of moving as leverage to obtain concessions from workers. |
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3rd Oct 07 - George Monbiot, Monbiot.com China has become the world’s excuse for inaction. If there is anything a government or a business does not want to do, it invokes the Yellow Peril. Raise the minimum wage to £6 an hour? Not when the Chinese are paid £6 a year. Cap working time at 48 hours a week? The Chinese are working 48 hours a day. Cut greenhouse gas emissions? The Chinese are building a new power station every nanosecond. China is our looking-glass bogeyman. If you behave well, the bogeyman will get you. |
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1st Oct 07, Dr Vandana Shiva, AlterNet The physicist, activist and author outlines the scope of the "triple threat" represented by the end of cheap oil, human-induced climate change, and resource scarcity at a recent conference on "Confronting the Global Triple Crisis - Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction" in Washington DC. |
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26th Sep 07 - Jeremy Seabrook, The Guardian (UK) Something is wanting in all the descriptions of poverty in rich societies. Necessities foregone by the least well-off do not appear to the majority of poor people in the world like terrible privations - a holiday, a mobile phone, the privacy of a room of one's own; yet to call this "relative poverty" misses the point of the exposure and insecurity of being poor, when this has been reduced to minority status. |
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21st Sep 07 - Jan Frel, AlterNet In Europe and Canada debate is raging about Naomi Klein's new book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine. This interview with Klein considers why U.S. public debate is unable to ask fundamental questions about our economic system. |
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20th Sep 07 - Waldon Bello, Transnational Institute/Focus on the Global South All attempts to save globalisation by modifying it fail to root their analysis in the dynamics of capitalism as a mode of production. Neolibral globalisation is not a new stage of capitalism, argues Walden Bello, but a desperate and unsuccessful effort to overcome the crises of over-accumulation, over-production and stagnation that have overtaken the central capitalist economies since the mid-1970s. |
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10th Sep 07 - Naomi Klein, The Guardian (UK) In the days after 9/11, America's firefighters, nurses and teachers were hailed as the country's heroes. But President Bush's embracing of the public sector didn't last long. As the dust settled on the twin towers, the White House launched an entirely new economy, based on security - with the belief that only private firms could meet the challenge. In this second exclusive extract from her new book, Naomi Klein reports on those who see a profitable prospect in a grim future. |
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8th Sep 07 - Naomi Klein, The Guardian (UK) Her explosive new book exposes the lie that free markets thrive on freedom. In the Guardian's first exclusive extract, the No Logo author reveals the business of exploiting disaster.
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5th Sep 07 - Dr Zeki Ergas ~ STWR Man is moving too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision, and he will never know that what hit him from behind was man ~ James G. Thurber
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5th Sep 07 - Vit Wagner, Toronto Star The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, a painstakingly detailed analysis of how corporations manipulate natural and manmade disasters to line their pockets and further their privatizing agenda, is not a marginal, academic treatise by a lefty think tank targeted at a small, like-minded audience. |
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