globalism
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Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative is driving humanity to the brink of extinction. At the present rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, the climate crisis alone could soon end civilization and destroy the biosphere. Biologists report that up to a million species of plants and animals are on the verge of extinction. Global capitalism is not only… Continue reading
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The Irreversible (but Laborious) Construction of a Multi-Polar Order
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, an Iranian-born Kurdish economist and professor emeritus at Drake University (Iowa) wondered in a recent post why China, India, Russia and other countries do not challenge the tyranny exerted by the US over the institutions that monitor, regulate and control the functioning of the international economic and financial system such as the IMF,… Continue reading
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A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’ By Alastair Crooke
The paradoxes of ‘interregnum’ are played out daily: when a democratically elected House of Commons arrays itself in opposition to a popular referendum, opposes its own approved legislation that stemmed from it, and even toys with the overthrow of the principle of government ‘governing’, (in favour of the notion that a shifting, ephemeral assembly of… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 5 November 2011: India/Pakistan / Russia / Anti-Globalism / Asia Occupy Wall Street
5 November 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation Paradigm Shift in India-Pakistan Relations 05.11.2011 | 00:00 | Aurobinda MAHAPATRA (India) Pakistan on 2 November 2011 decided to accord most favoured nation (MFN) status to India… the new arrangement will help both the countries to meet many of their economic necessities in a complementary framework. It may… Continue reading
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Dmitry Sedov – Revolts in Arab world – who’s next?
The revolt in Libya makes us seriously revise our attitude to the events in the Arab East. A widespread point of view that the Internet was to blame for creating options for self-organization has been shaken. Continue reading
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Lowering Workers’ Wages is the Objective
14 December, 2010 — The Real News Network Leo Panitch: Big Business opposed to government jobs programs, as their objective is to drive wages down through fear and global competition Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science… Continue reading
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New from Strategic Culture Foundation 30 October – 5 November, 2010
5 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation The echo of the past war 05.11.2010 | 21:27 | MEDEN Natalia In Germany the reaction on the plan of David Cameron’s Cabinet to withdraw the British troops from Germany by 2020 (not by 2035) in order to save money for the state budget was quite controversial… Here… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 5, 2008 Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and the global economy itself. And so… Continue reading
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Mission Impossible By William Bowles
Never has the meaning of the global village struck home in quite the way as in the present circumstances. Past empires have been able to hide behind distance and disinformation, but the current imperial project is, in spite of all the efforts to hide it, being built inside a goldfish bowl, where every move, every… Continue reading
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Book Review: Consenting Adults? By William Bowles
Capital which is global in scope, is able to move across national borders without let or hindrance, but that ‘democracy’ (where it exists) stops at national borders. And in an age of global capital, the nation state is incapable of dealing with issues that affect the entire planet. And nation states, driven by parochial interests,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 