On AlterNet: globalization
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "globalization"
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. May 28, 2009.
Contamination has become so widespread that major frozen food purveyors admit they can no longer ensure the safety of their products.
William Greider, The Nation. May 11, 2009.
Can someone explain how outsourcing the auto industry is in our national interest?
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 27, 2009.
With the world's maritime chokepoints at risk, pirates are emerging as the latest non-state threat: the terrorists of the seas.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. April 7, 2009.
In a world on the brink, we must offer a global stimulus or else face an epidemic of global crime.
Todd Tucker, Lori Wallach, Eyes on Trade AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. February 4, 2009.
We must overhaul the failed globalization policies of the past.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 3, 2009.
This is some serious globalization... or the work of the Yes Men.
Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, Tim Costello, AlterNet. January 28, 2009.
Current leaders of the world's nations have utterly failed to develop a solution. Now it's up to ordinary citizens.
Global Labor StrategiesDecember 4, 2008.
This time around, global structural change will be required.
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.
