Category Archives: GLOBALIZATION

Working Poor: Almost Half Of U.S. Households Live One Crisis From The Bread Line

Don’t be fooled by the latest numbers released by the Labor Department reporting that unemployment has dropped to 8.3% due to a hiring surge … or the idea that the country’s problem is just a “crisis of confidence.” This is … Continue reading

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Mike Daisy Wonders: Who Makes All My Apple Crap?

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Anonymous Message To Monsanto; We fight for farmers!

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300 Chinese Workers at Apple/ Sony / Microsoft Global Partner Foxconn ‘Threaten Mass Suicide’ At XBox Plant

By Michael Rundle HUFFINGTON POST Around 300 Chinese workers who manufacture XBox consoles took to a factory roof and threatened bosses with mass suicide over a dispute about pay, unconfirmed reports have claimed. The workers were employed at the Foxconn … Continue reading

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Occupying a New Reality

One of the things I’ve loved the most about the Occupy movement is the position that we just don’t give a fuck what political analysts, pundits, and “experts” think or project about the “strategies” and tactics that this global revolution … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (1 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (2 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (3 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend!   For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World … Continue reading

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Economic Hit Man Speaking Freely: John Perkins (4 of 4)

This is one of the best analyses of corporatocracy I’ve heard – I highly recommend! For many years John Perkins was an “economic hit man” in the world of international finance; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries … Continue reading

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The Decline of Labour Unions in the US and Its Devastating Effect on The Economy

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An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports

Re-posted from Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our … Continue reading

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Frame Capitalism not the Earth

We in the west think that Darfur was torn apart due to ethnic conflict, while according to David Morse it was a resource war. He writes in an insightful article on Alternet, “The most sophisticated technologies deployed are, on the … Continue reading

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Occupy APEC with Aloha

By Christine Ahn Foreign Policy  In Focus E iho ana o luna, E pi’i ana o lalo, E hui ana na moku, E ku ana ka paia. “That which is above shall be brought down, that which is below shall … Continue reading

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We are all Occupiers | Arundhati Roy

People the world over salute the Occupy movement for standing up to injustice and fighting for equality at the heart of empire Arundhati Roy · 17/11/2011 ·Text re-posted from guardian.co.uk Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the … Continue reading

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Wikileaks cables show race to carve up Arctic: Secretary Hillary Clinton highlights the Opportunities of Artic Exploitation

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Vanishing Of The Bees

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Massive police action cracks down on Occupy Oakland

Police Raid Occupy Oakland Camp, By MALIA WOLLAN; Re-posted from The New York Times, November 14, 2011 OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment downtown on Monday morning, making arrests and flattening … Continue reading

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#OWS: The brand leaders cannot afford to ignore

By Paul Mason, Nov 2, 2011, Re-posted from BBC News Cannes, France: I can sense very clearly here at Cannes that this is the moment “the masses” start shaping the policy response to the global financial crisis. Why? Because everybody … Continue reading

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Gov. Scott Walker gets mic checked!

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Vandana Shiva: “People should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago.”

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