"Globalisation is tearing apart this post-war social contract. The creation of a worldwide free market is rooted in a series of decisions taken by the US over the last 30 years which dismantled the post-war international monetary system, liberalised world markets and granted the financial sector an autonomy and power unparalleled since the golden age of British finance." Noëlle Burgi and Philip S. Golub
In the USA, from the very beginning, we have taken pride in our "laboratory of states" model. Herein, a republican form of federation produces both local control and, if needed and wanted, national cooperation. This assumes, of course, that states of the republic are run via truly honest democratic processes. In this way we are free to respect history, tradition, local culture and customs, local economy, and preserve the widest variety of human rights and freedoms within such arrangements. The same should be the approach in any more interconnected world – i.e., a laboratory of free nations determining their level of interdependency, and not a forced, fascist, globalization and monoculture dictated from the top by capital's ruling economic forces.
Given effectively forced trade and globalization we are witnessing a veritable repeal of the twentieth century, and all its hard-won gains for middle-class majorities. The result is that a First World state of affairs may never be seen again unless wage-laboring majorities regain the power to determine the nature of their economy and society. In addition, if we are not free to care for, and control, our farmlands and rivers, then global corporations without situs or sypathy for local conditions may continue to proceed to ruin one place and move on to another.... in a corporate slash, cash, and run ethic.
What "we" are breeding today is a global monoculture of neo-slave states, all with their powers wrested from the people and placed in so-called independent agencies of the unelected. Independent of whom? Who are we kidding?
We are living in well-oiled oligarchies fast becoming one big global oligarchy... busy producing a world-wide neo-slavery and dismal global oligopoly. In short, we have no effective economic democracy today and re-capturing it is now a nation by nation process...from the ground up.
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Great article Kent, for the past twenty years free trade propaganda has been spewing from corporate funded think tanks so many people believe it is the only way. I think people are starting to figure out the real agenda behind it as they witness the devastation of wages at all skill and education levels.
Its time for Americans to take a stand against the corporate whores who are supposed to represent the people of America and try them for treason because much of the globalist agenda is also a huge threat to our national security in the not so distant future. Trade with China perfect example,we get slave labor for short term profit they get massive industrialization and a military buildup that will blow your mind. In twenty years China will control the entire world and impose whatever kind of doctrine it desires. They could very well succeed at what Hitler failed.
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Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 197 comments)
on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 6:01:00 PM
But we can't put our heads in nationalistic soil and hope globalization goes away. Instead, let's embrace globalization thru a democratic body of people who confront corporate rule.
The basic premise of George Monbiot's argument for a world parliament is that world government by elites is a given – whether we like it or not. Our only hope, then, is to develop a people’s forum that holds global government to account. See his Age of Consent: Manifesto for a New World Order.
In this book, he details how we can preserve our cultural identities, as a world democracy. A shorter version of his ideas is in this essay.
Instead of swimming against the tide of world governement by elites, why not build a boat for the people to hold that government to account?
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Rady Ananda (78 articles, 219 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 569 comments)
on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 1:30:17 PM
