On AlterNet: globalization
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "globalization"
Mark Engler, Nation Books. September 1, 2008.
All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist greed are bubbling up from the grassroots.
Robert Weissman, Middle East Online. August 4, 2008.
Don't shed any tears for the death of the WTO talks -- the whole thing should have been called the Doha Anti-Development Round.
David Bacon, deleted. July 24, 2008.
Much of today's immigration from Mexico begins with heavily-subsidized U.S. corn.
Walden Bello, The Nation. May 23, 2008.
In the years preceding Mexico's tortilla crisis, the country had been converted to a corn-importer by the IMF, the World Bank and Washington.
Triveni Gandhi, Campus Progress. March 29, 2008.
The ongoing battle over representations of sex in Indian movies reflects a larger conflict between tradition and change.
Andy Stern, The Nation. March 24, 2008.
We are as far today from the New Deal as the New Deal was from the Civil War.
Andrew Lam, deleted. March 13, 2008.
The real 'Cultural Revolution', the one stoked by individual desires and ambition, is happening now.
Mark Trumbull, Christian Science Monitor. February 17, 2008.
In an era of corporate-led "globalization," U.S. factories are competing by trimming workers and wages.
Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch. February 7, 2008.
Bill Gates, anti-Capitalist? Concerns about economic downturn dampen festivities in Davos, Switzerland.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. February 7, 2008.
Seal-the-border hysteria is everywhere. Instead of blaming immigrants for America's problems, let's look at executives on both sides of the border.
Les Leopold, AlterNet. December 28, 2007.
Unfettered global trade will make efforts to reverse global warming and deliver safe products to our country all the more difficult.
Peter Dreier, Huffington Post. December 7, 2007.
Raising prices a dollar on a pair of Nike shoes could drastically improve the lives of Chinese factory workers.
Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press. November 21, 2007.
Is income from immigration the best hope for developing countries? Gregory Clark's book "A Farewell to Alms" explores the wealth, and the poverty, of nations.
Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. November 13, 2007.
We need to promote the globalization of mass movements and the globalization of sharing ideas so that communities can help each other achieve self-reliance.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. October 26, 2007.
If our government really is a corporation and Bush is its CEO, we're all likely to be self-employed contractors out of a job.
Bryan Farrell, In These Times. October 4, 2007.
Big Tobacco won't stop until it's infiltrated every possible market.
Vandana Shiva, AlterNet. October 1, 2007.
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.
P.R. Goldstone, MIT Center for International Studies. September 25, 2007.
High levels of economic exchange act as an accelerant: extensive trade enhances either cooperation or conflict.
Stephen Marshall, AlterNet. September 22, 2007.
The left accepts as faith the idea that corporate globalization and war are connected. But there's a danger in oversimplifying that connection.
Stephen Marshall, The Disinformation Company. July 5, 2007.
In an excerpt from the new book, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Stephen Marshall takes on liberals like Friedman, who would have you believe that our capitalist system is inherently just and self-regulating when, in reality, it is anything but.
David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2007.
David Sirota: Why is the Washington press corps refusing to even ask about major hypocrisy?
Stephen Lerner, AlterNet. May 1, 2007.
Ironically, globalization is creating the greatest opportunity to organize global unions among the poorest and least-skilled workers employed in an economy dominated by giant corporations.
William Greider, The Nation. April 23, 2007.
An unlikely dissident from the Ivy League's economic establishment has come forward with a proposal to reform globalization.
Catherine Lerza, Tides Foundation. April 21, 2007.
Prominent African-American environmentalist Michael Gelobter discusses how global warming affects economic justice, the future of the progressive movement and whether your child walks to school.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. January 15, 2007.
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about what's gone wrong with globalization.
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