March 31, 2009 The message from last weekend’s G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: The game can’t go on. The game must go on. In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, European leaders had flirted with the idea… Read More »
GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW IN HARD TIMES
February 6, 2009 The economic globalization that transformed the world at the turn of the century promised, according to its advocates, a glorious vista of prosperity that would provide unprecedented economic growth and raise billions of people out of poverty. In practice it generated personal and national insecurity, growing inequality, and a race to… Read More »
BAILING OUT THE PLANET
February 4, 2009 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher As the rag-tag army of social movement activists, NGO representatives and other advocates from global civil society wend their way home from the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil, and the World Social Forum (WSF), they have reason to believe they have won… Read More »
THINGS FALL APART
December 24, 2008 The bill has finally come due for decades of reckless economic policies and utter disregard for the planet. We are now confronted with two intertwined crises of historic proportions—one economic and one environmental. The economic crisis, which has been smoldering for more than a year, caught fire when the US housing… Read More »
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