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A New Model for Managing International Trade and Development , Part III
Click here for all the posts in the series. In Development……only one road leads to Rome, Part 3By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / November 14, 2008 To Rome… or to Ruin? As a result of the application of … Continue reading
A New Model for Managing International Trade and Development , Part II
Click here for all the posts in the series. In Development……only one road leads to Rome, Part 2By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2008 History: How did the rich nations get rich? This is the single … Continue reading
A New Model for Managing International Trade and Development , Part I
This is the first part of a four-part series describing a new approach to the conundrum of manufacturing outsourcing. Sid Eschenbach is The Rag Blog‘s newest contributor. We welcome his participation in our growing effort. And we hope you, the … Continue reading
Constructing a New Agenda for the Global Economy
2002 Porto Alegre, Brazil. SourceThere Is an Alternative to Corporate RuleBy Mark Engler / September 1, 2008 All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist greed are bubbling up from the grassroots. One of the remarkable features of modern political … Continue reading
Why Can We Not Do Something About Poverty?
Kabul street childrenWorld poverty ‘more widespread’By Steve Schifferes / August 27, 2008 Tackling global poverty requires both public and private investment The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous … Continue reading
Nothing Fair About the Trade Deals Made with Chequebooks and Lawyers
Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade dealsBy George Monbiot / August 26, 2008 The world’s hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations In his … Continue reading
The Age of Global Apartheid, Courtesy Uncle Sam
A Story of U.S. Immigration In An Age of Global ApartheidBy Ben Terrall, August 14, 2008 In his 2001 book, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the ‘Illegal Alien’ and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge), Joseph Nevins focused on … Continue reading
Turning Into the Main Actors of Our Present & Future
Bolivian President Evo Morales on the WTO’s Round of NegotiationsBy Evo Morales Ayma / July 22, 2008 International trade can play a major role in the promotion of economic development and the alleviation of poverty. We recognize the need for … Continue reading
Expanding on Our Humanness and Sacredness
You Say You Want a Revolution?by Olga Bonfiglio Detroit, the once-proud capital of industrialization is now the paragon of de-industrialization and urban decay. General Motors’ July 15 announcement that it will cut white-collar employment costs by 20 percent is just … Continue reading
The Death of Reaganomics
Barbara Dane et al / Reaganomics Blues. / Fuse 002Singing the Capitalism BluesBy E.J. Dionne / July 10, 2008 The biggest political story of 2008 is getting little coverage. It involves the collapse of assumptions that have dominated our economic … Continue reading
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The Biggest NAFTA Problem : the Assumed Commonality of Interests
The New Geography of Trade: North America Doesn’t ExistBy Laura Carlsen / July 8, 2008 About every six months or so, the media provide a fleeting show of North American unity. Whether on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean, the … Continue reading
The End of the Sovereign Self
Tomgram: Philip K. Dick Meet George W. Bush Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Globalization Bush-styleBy Tom Engelhardt Imagine, for a moment, that you live in a small town somewhere near the Southern California coast. You’re … Continue reading
