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[Economist's View] Save globalisation from radical global utopians, by Barry Lynn, Commentary, Financial Times: Now may hardly seem the time to imagine a more global future, let alone do so with optimism. Most of us are hard pressed just to maintain the illusion that the present system is not breaking down, to deny .
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[Reading the Maps] The peculiarities of the pro-war 'left': I personally think that the pro-war 'left' represented by the Euston Manifesto ought to be of more interest to sociologists and pyschologists who study unusual ideas than to newspapers and bloggers. In the last few weeks we've seen the largest student-worker protests in France since 1968, the largest strike in Britain since 1926, a popular uprising against capitalist globalisation and US free trade in Ecuador, the defeat of Blair's Mussolini-loving friend in Italy by a coalition including communists and socialists, surging campaigns for left-wing, anti-US foreign policy Presidential candidates in Peru and Mexico, and the continuing socialistic measures won in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution (the expropriation of four hundred apartment blocks in Caracas, for example).
[Dan's Space] Globalisation in the Middle East: Globalisation is a process that constantly shapes our contemporary world and affects our everyday lives. This process is an accelerated development of productive forces, scientific and technological progress and intensive communication among states and peoples.
[Discussion about 09/11/2001] Blogging because it has my comments: Daly... : FTW - October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades ” which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed ” the firm used to place the “put options” on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.
[Different Day] Be Here Now: Sources and appendices: Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer 1944 'The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception' in Adorno, Theodor & Max Horkheimer (1979), Dialectic of Enlightenment, Verso, London, pages 120/167.
[Leiterreports.typepad.com] Toward Global Justice: An Introductory Bibliography: Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization. Oxford, UK:. Oxford University Press, 2003. ... The Legal and Moral Aspects of International Trade ...
[Newton.uor.edu] Globalization & Its Critics: An Annotated List: "brings together the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of South Florida, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the George Washington University into a collective arrangement that permits each to pursue globalization research while pursuing a particularized area expertise": research & activities;
[Globalisationinstitute.org] Globalisation Institute - Open Europe's event on Doha: Dr Razeen Sally, Head of International Trade Policy Unit at the LSE, warned that a modest deal would mean that the WTO will not be taken seriously and there will be an acceleration towards free trade agreements and possible flouting of WTO rules. He added that the WTO needed to "live in an age of diminished expectations and expect far less in the future from liberalisation".
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