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

Jake Colvin | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: International Trade, Poverty, Global Economy, World Trade Organization, London Summit, Trade, Globalization, Global Financial Crisis, Global Poverty, International-Development, Global Economic Crisis, Economic Recession, Economic Crisis, Recession, Business News
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.

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

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: G20 Summit, Global Economy, Nafta, European Union, Free Trade, Globalization, Global Financial Crisis, g20, Global Economic Crisis, Economy, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, Fiscal Stimulus, Monetary Policy, Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Deregulation, World News
Mark Weisbrot

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

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Living In The Possibility-Based Global Community

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Yes We Can, Islam, Women, Michelle Obama, Nato, Turkey, Hope, Optimism, Globalization, Democracy, Media, Faith-Based Community, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Internet, G20 Summit, Positive Thinking, Hugging, Reality-Based Community, Soft Power, Youtube, Love, Living News
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."

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Too Soon to Declare a New World Order

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Regulatory Reform, Deregulation, Globalization, Imf, Global Financial Crisis, G-20 Summit, New-World-Order, Business News
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.

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The Profitability Of Inequality

Crossover Dreams | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Globalization, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Migration, Criminalization, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigrants, World News
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.

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Starbucks Puts Sticker Shock on Coffee in Brazil

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Espresso, Leblon Mall, Ico, Expresso, Baristas, Cause Related Marketing, Social Responsibility, Cafe Pele, Juan-Valdez, Copacabana, Cumbia, Globalization, Fair-Trade, Coffee, Green Marketing, Mandelson, Ipanema, Colombia, Greenwashing, Illy, Schultz, Bogota, Greenmail, Starbucks, Sustainability, Porro, Business News
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...

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Now and for the Long Run

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jared Bernstein, Larry Summers, Globalization, Timothy Geithner, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Paul Volcker, Politics News
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.

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Recession, Climate Change and the Return to Planning

Anthony Giddens | Posted 04.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Economic Recession, Globalization, Climate Change, Energy Policy, Recession, Green News
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.

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Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Progressive, The Future of Liberalism, Liberals, Terrorism, Liberalism, Progressives, Globalization, Progressive Book Club, Alan Wolfe, World News
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.

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Crouching Tiger vs. Slobbering Slumdog: What Ang Lee Gets Right About Globalization

Chi Tung | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

Read More: Ang Lee, Lust Caution, Chinese Culture, Globalization, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Chinese Cinema, Slumdog Millionaire, China, The Academy Awards, The Oscars, World News
Chi Tung

Slumdog might be a shining example of how to package a transglobal blockbuster. But its fatal flaw is that it often treats globalization, the lingua franca of today's world, as unassailable gospel.

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Sons of the Mau Mau

Frankie Martin | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Female Genital Mutilation, Luo Taliban, Africa, World Bank, United Nations, Waki Report, Imf, Kofi Annan, Kenya Election Violence, Barack Obama, Globalization, World News, Raila Odinga, Tribalism, Mwai Kibaki, Bush Administration, Sabaot Land Defense Force, United States Foreign Policy, Kikuyu, Mau Mau Rebellion, Poverty, Kenya, Mungiki, World News
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.

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

Gerald Bracey | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Arne Duncan, Reform, Economic Crisis, Educaton, Globalization, Education Reform, Economy, Living News
Gerald Bracey

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

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Globalization Is In Retreat: Adrian Hamilton

The Independent | Adrian Hamilton | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: The Independent, Economy, Davos, British Foreign Workers Protest, Adrian Hamilton, Globalization, Protectionism, Buy American, Trade War, World News

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...

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Mr. Obama, Start Walking Your Bottom Up Talk

Rob Kall | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Automaker Bailout, Bottom-Up, Bailout, Potus, Barack Obama, Walmart, Poverty, Hank Paulson, Obama Stimulus, President Obama, Clintons, Stimulus, Obama NAFTA, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Nafta, Stimulus Package, Tim Geithner, Cafta, Poverty and Health, Henry Paulson, Economic Stimulus, Timothy Geithner, Minority, Minorities, Politics News
Rob Kall

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

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Industrial Policy

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Industrial Policy, Economy, Abraham Lincoln, Globalization, Offshoring, Obama Economy, China, Economic Crisis, Politics News
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.

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

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Crisis, First 100 Days, Progressive Reform, Global Economy, Lobbyists, Economy, 100 Days, Globalization, Obama Administration, Reform, Industrial Policy, Health Care, Politics News
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.

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Time of Crisis and Opportunity

Kofi Annan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: G8, Developing World, Global Economy, Economy, Davos, Africa, g20, Globalization, Climate Change, Kofi Annan, Global Financial Crisis, Development, Davos 2009, Global Warming, African Economy, World Economic Forum, World News
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.

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Sobering Up

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Security, Economy, Globalization, Congress, Economic Stimulus Package, Global Economy, Bailout, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

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

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

The Independent | Mary Dejevsky | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Global View of United States, Britain, Us Britain, The Independent, Bernard Madoff, Ivy League, Globalization, Ivy League Education, Us Creativity, American Influence, American Allies, World News

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...

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How Globalization Set the Stage for the 2008 Economic Collapse

Robert Creamer | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Income Stagnation, World Trade Organization, Economic Policy, Employee Free Choice Act, Trade, Economic Crisis, Breaking News, Globalization, Credit Crisis, Nafta, Financial Collapse, Ecomomic Stimulus, Politics News
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.

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Falling Off the Edge: The Great Lie of Globalization

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: India, Conflict, Time Magazine, Alex Perry, Terrorism, Africa, Globalization, Capitalism, Asia, Dick Cheney, World News
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.

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

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Outsourcing, Ebay, Goldman Sachs, John McCain and Meg Whitman, Meg Whitman, Labor, Sweatshop Labor, Meg Whitman and Ebay, Meg Whitman Outsourcing, Globalization, Meg Whitman Labor, Carly Fiorina, Sweatshops, Politics News
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.

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America, Abandoned On Its Own Petard?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Obama Transition, Obama, International Relations, Mindset, John F Kennedy, Pearl Harbor, War on Terror, Cuban Missile Crisis, Terrorism, 9/11, US Intervention Abroad, Us Foreign Relations, World War II, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

What if, just like us, other countries are content to let America be in the crosshairs of terrorist regimes and turn a jaundiced eye rather than roll their sleeves up and help?

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America's Choice: Destruction or Construction

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Institute for America’s Future, Election 2008 Coverage, Trickle Down, Election Day, Economy, Katharine Lee Bates, Main Street, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Fannie Mae, Election Anxiety, Congress, A Main Street Recovery Program, Barack Obama, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Privatization, Off-Shoring, Deregulation, Foreclosure, America the Beautiful, Alan Greenspan, Tech Bubble, Housing Bubble, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one's interminable and internationally contagious.

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Obama's Global Challenge

Marco Trbovich | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green

Read More: President Obama, Coal Energy, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Clean Coal, Dirty Energy, Globalization, Obama Administration, Clean Energy, Energy Policy, Robert Rubin, Clintonian, Steve Hildebrand, Consumer Goods, Obama Appointees, Green Economy, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, President Elect Obama, Citigroup, Green News
Marco Trbovich

America's energy future is a goods news, bad news joke. The good news is that America has enough domestic resources to meet its energy needs. The bad news is, the resource is coal.

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