On AlterNet: global economy

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Apple Driving Workers to Threaten Mass Suicide? The Pathologies of the Modern Corporation

Robert Cruickshank, AlterNet. January 24, 2012.

Better technology is not sufficient to build a better society. To really change lives, corporations must use their work force to improve democracy and equality.

Austerity Plans Are Based on the Wrong Diagnosis of the Wrong Problem -- And May Plunge Europe into Depression

Mariana Mazzucato, AlterNet. January 4, 2012.

Governments must be able to spend strategically to encourage growth, or the crisis will only get worse.

What Really Destroyed the Economy and How We Can Fix It

Katherine Sciacchitano, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2011.

The crisis caused the deficit (not the other way around), and cutbacks have rendered the ill-fitting stimulus obsolete. Now we need a long-term, comprehensive jobs plan.

How America Could Collapse

Matt Stoller, The Nation. August 11, 2011.

Scarce domestic manufacturing leaves the United States highly vulnerable to accidents and problems abroad.

What Happens When the US, Europe and China Collide?

Mike Davis, TomDispatch.com. July 26, 2011.

The new recession that the Republicans are engineering will put into doubt all three pillars of McWorld: American consumption, European stability, and Chinese growth.

Is Iraq Doomed to Become Just Another Mideast Petro State?

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. July 15, 2009.

Will it all end in Iraq not with a bang, but with an oil gusher? The latest oil news out of that country offers a hint of Iraq's fate.

A Planet on the Brink: Economic Crash Will Fuel Social Unrest

Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch.com. February 24, 2009.

Governments across the planet are preparing for a surge of violent protests from economic upheaval. Wars may follow.

The Spectacular, Sudden Crash of the Global Economy

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 24, 2009.

In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next.

It's a Global Economic Meltdown -- Why Are We Shouldering Most of the Burden of Bailing Out the World?

John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research. February 15, 2009.

We need to fill the biggest hole in the current global response to the deepening recession: the lack of coordinated international fiscal policy.

Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy

Naomi Klein, The Nation. February 6, 2009.

Governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with the same bad ideas will not survive to tell the tale.

Triple Shock Strikes the Global Economy

Eric Le Boucher, Le Monde. March 20, 2008.

The American growth model will have to change.

The Fall of the American Consumer

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. March 12, 2008.

We have been the world's designated shoppers, and, if we fall down on the job, we take the global economy with us.

Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More than a Taser Story

Naomi Klein, Los Angeles Times. November 22, 2007.

The jolts of global economics blast people out of the picture.

May Day Alert: Only Global Unions Can Stop the Race to the Bottom

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.

The U.S. and China: Is a Trade War Coming?

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. December 13, 2006.

China may be violating trade agreements, but the savings-poor U.S. lacks the power to do anything about it.