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Globalization

What's Good for General Motors Is... Never Mind

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert L. Borosage

Is the Obama Administration saving General Motors or is it saving auto industry jobs in the US? Is it saving GM as an American brand or GM as an American manufacturer?

Arts Education in America

Quincy Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Quincy Jones

Can we really run the risk of becoming a culturally bankrupt nation because we have not inserted a curriculum into our educational institutions that will teach and nurture creativity in our children?

Green News Report - May 7, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Fires and bats and bears -- Oh My!; Congress to offer Cash For Clunkers; Some Democrats side with Republicans in stalling cli...

Challenging Conventional Wisdom

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

I don't think we'll ever teach Afghan warlords to like democracy and grow cotton instead of poppies.

The Shenzhenian Candidate: Meg Whitman Wants to be Governor of California

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Kelly

Meg Whitman's real expertise is in globalization. Which is the nice way of saying Asian sweatshops. I'm not saying everything Whitman touches turns to slave labor, I'm just not saying it doesn't.

Following the London Summit, What's Next for the World Economy?

Jake Colvin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jake Colvin

The current economic climate presents a real danger to international stability and, ultimately, to U.S. national security. The time is right for a renewed commitment to trade.

It's the Global Economy (Stupid) -- or Is It?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Mark Weisbrot

The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.

Living In The Possibility-Based Global Community

Indra Adnan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Indra Adnan

If we are unaware of the deliberate grasping and transforming of reality that Obama is exercising through the world's media, we will be constantly led by the images of Barack and Michelle "being the change."

Too Soon to Declare a New World Order

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Ann Pettifor

I am willing to bet that the group of 20 leaders will very likely fail in their aim of stabilizing the global economy.

The Profitability Of Inequality

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Crossover Dreams

The current concept of the "illegal" person has its roots in the Black Codes, used to define who could be enslaved and who couldn't.

Starbucks Puts Sticker Shock on Coffee in Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Eric Ehrmann

Rio -- Brazil's president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva got free coffee from President Obama at the White House Saturday. But back home he'll pay $20 f...

Now and for the Long Run

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The government, like households, must hunker down, stop spending where it can, and plug the hole of offshoring jobs in the ship of state.

Recession, Climate Change and the Return to Planning

Anthony Giddens | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Anthony Giddens

The period of Thatcherite deregulation is over. The state is back. We will need active industrial policy and planning, in respect to economic institutions but for climate change and energy policy as well.

Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Julian Brookes

An open world is the best remedy against terrorism. Bush talked a lot about the universal idea of human freedom. I think he was right in that language, but his policies encouraged the opposite.

Sons of the Mau Mau

Frankie Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Frankie Martin

Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos. These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.

Extra! Extra! Schools Not Cause of Current Economic Crisis!

Gerald Bracey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Gerald Bracey

Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, schools have been the scapegoat of choice for any social crisis, real or imagined.

Mr. Obama, Start Walking Your Bottom Up Talk

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rob Kall

Bottom up approaches work because they do something different than usual, or because they support bottom up community, cooperation, sharing and community.

Globalization Is In Retreat: Adrian Hamilton

The Independent | Adrian Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

One by one the great and good of the land have stepped forward to pronounce on the wave of strikes over foreign workers and to condemn them. "Xenophob...

Industrial Policy

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

We have offshored our ability to defend the country. To confront globalization and its threat to our economy, President Obama will have to go to the people.

Get Ready to Rumble: The Fight for the Next Economy Begins

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert L. Borosage

Forget about a new era of bipartisan consensus and get ready to rumble. We're headed into pitched battles that will succeed only with massive popular mobilization.

Time of Crisis and Opportunity

Kofi Annan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Kofi Annan

At Davos, our business and political leaders must show they understand that our world has shifted for good and that we have to change with it or perish.

Sobering Up

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Sen. Fritz Hollings

The United States needs to get out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and engage in the trade war of globalization.

Why Does Britain Keep Adopting The Wrong Ideas From The US? Asks UK Commentator

The Independent | Mary Dejevsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

What is it about American ideas that Britain, and New Labour Britain in particular, finds so seductive? Oh, I know how fertile their think-tank cultur...

How Globalization Set the Stage for the 2008 Economic Collapse

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Creamer

A good case can be made that the massive globalization of labor and financial markets, coupled with "free markets uber alles" policies, formed a toxic mixture that made the collapse inevitable. Here's why.

Falling Off the Edge: The Great Lie of Globalization

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Perry uses his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Asia and Africa to weigh up the new market theories that tell us that globalization is inevitable, universally beneficial.