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28th Aug 07 - David Korten, Yes! Magazine If we are to slow and ultimately reverse the social and environmental disintegration we see around us, we must change the rules to curb the pervasive abuse of corporate power that contributes so much to those harms. |
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28th Aug 07 - Don Monkerud ~ STWR In 1882, New York clamored for an appearance by the champion of laissez-faire capitalism, Herbert Spencer, who provided Charles Darwin with the phrase, "Survival of the fittest." |
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27th Aug 07 - Mark Braund, The Guardian (UK) In an impressive new book, The Social Conscience, Michel Glautier asks a simple question: can a caring society exist in a market economy? |
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27th Aug 07 - Girish Mishra, Znet It is really strange that, while there is a heated discussion on liberalization, neo-liberalism, privatization, etc., the most important dimension of globalization - financialization - is almost completely ignored. Why this is done is a mystery. The recent global crisis given rise by sub-prime mortgages in America has underlined that, without looking into the history of the rise and proliferation of financialization, it is difficult to understand the crisis and its implications. |
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24th Aug 07 - New Internationalist (from 400th issue: Daring to Dream - Inspiration from the Majority World) Walden Bello is one of globalization’s sharpest critics. And he has a good track record of being ahead of events. |
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24th Aug 07 - Naomi Klein, The Guardian (UK) As protesters gathered recently outside the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit in Montebello, Quebec, to confront George Bush, Felipe Calderón, the Mexican president, and Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, Associated Press reported this surreal detail: "Leaders were not able to see the protesters in person, but they could watch the protesters on TV monitors inside the hotel ... Cameramen hired to ensure that demonstrators would be able to pass along their messages to the three leaders sat idly in a tent full of audio and video equipment ... A sign on the outside of the tent said, 'Our cameras are here today providing your right to be seen and heard. Please let us help you get your message out. Thank You.'" |
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22nd Aug 07 - John Vidal, The Guardian (UK) The speculative rush to develop gas and oil reserves under the Arctic ice could spell environmental catastrophe far beyond the pole. |
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21st Aug 07 - Dr Zeki Ergas ~ STWR It is increasingly clear that the building of a better world requires a much larger participation, or a much bigger contribution, by women at all levels than it is the case presently. That means, that implies, that women need to have, will have, a lot more power – political power, economic power, cultural power, social power – than presently. |
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20th Aug 07 - Ramzy Baroud, Online Journal It was Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of Public Relations in the twentieth century. Using many of the psychoanalytic theories put forward by his uncle, Sigmund Freud, he developed a mastery of public manipulation, suggesting that such manipulation was essential to democracy itself. Bernays strongly believed that people are simply 'stupid' and in need of being told how to behave, what to believe, what to eat, what to wear and how to vote. The outcomes of such an experiment reverberate to this day. |
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20th Aug 07 - Paul Craig Roberts, EconomyInCrisis.org At a time when even The Wall Street Journal has disappeared into the maw of a huge media conglomerate, The New York Times remains an independent newspaper. But it doesn't show any independence in reporting or thought. |
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