Globalization
"Trade ministers tend to negotiate in secret. Trade agreements are long and complex, and lobbyists work hard to bury in them self-serving provisions that they hope will escape attention. But the basic issues... such as the trade-off between drug company profits and the right to life - are ones that are easy to understand. If the issue of access to AIDS drugs were put to a vote, in either developed or developing countries, the overwhelming majority would never support the position of the pharmaceutical companies or of the Bush administration.
Conflicts over fundamental values are at the center of democratic debate. Critics of globalization charge that globalization has been managed in such a way as to take some of the most important issues out of the realm of public discourse within individual countries and into closed international forums, which are far from democratic in the usual sense of that term. With the voices of corporate interest heard so clearly and strongly, and without the checks and balances of democratic processes, it's not surprising that the outcomes seem so objectionable, so distant from what would have emerged had there been a more democratic process. The most daunting challenge in reforming globalization is to make it more democratic; a test of success will be in how well it succeeds in ensuring that these broader values triumph more often over simple corporate interests."
The G20: A Global Menace Invented by Larry Summers By Naomi Klein - June 25th, 2010
Globalization Marches On
(3/26/2010)
With Global Capitalism Exposed as a Sham, All the Global Elite Have Left Is Pure Force (9/22/2009)
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning author in his book Making Globalization Work.
Globalization
Campaign Against the IMF, World Bank, and Structural Adjustment
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
International Forum on Globalization
Corporate Accountability International
Globalization has obvious, serious problems for practically everyone.
It has been extremely regressive. Virtually the only winners have been multinational corporations, the losers are the vast majority. Stiglitz suggestions in "Making Globalization Work" should be acted on immediately.
By way of contrast, see the Project for a New American Century.
The Seattle Turning Point for the WTO
Holly Sklar: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management
Global Imbalance - an imminent dollar crisis (video lecture 57 minutes.)
Vandana Shiva Lecture (video about 1 hour and 15 minutes)
A Citizens Guide to the WTO (pdf)
European Social Forum 2008 17-21 September 2008, Malmo, Sweden
About Empire
Video
The good news is that the eradication of global poverty is possible.
Life and Debt: Globalization in Jamaica (see this video on-line.)
Susan George is a political economist and author of more than a dozen books. CinemaLibreStudio has produced a documentary called Speaking Freely: (Vol 2) of her that explains in a way that the nightly news will not.
Foreign Policy
American Friends Service Committee
Arms Control Association
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment
Carter Center
Center for Defense Information
Conflicts Forum
Fourth Freedom Forum
Henry L. Stimson Center
9-11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Peace Action
Tom Dispatch
Traprock Peace Center
World Policy Institute
Bibliography
The World is Curved: David M. Smick
The War for Wealth, The True Story of Globalization, or Why the Flat World is Broken: Gabor Steingart
The Bush Agenda, invading the world one economy at a time: Antonia Juhasz
WTO: Lori Wallach
The Case Against The Global Economy and FOR a Turn Toward the Local: Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith.
The Selling of 'Free Trade': Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy: John R MacArthur.
The Case Against Free Trade, GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power: Earth Island Press