Globalisation sells Africans the Western dream. Immigration policies tell them they can’t have it. Where, Dele Oguntimoju asks, is the sense in that?
… Globalisation: the dream vs the reality Dele … Oguntimoju | 1st November 2002 News Nigeria Globalisation Immigration Westernisation … International Development Consumerism Globalisation Companies Community Free Trade …
Both Trump and Brexit can be explained by the failure of mainstream political elites to address the pain inflicted on ordinary citizens in the neoliberal era, write Helena Norberg-Hodge & Rupert Read. In the US and the UK, working class voters rightly rejected the corporate globalisation that has created so much poverty and insecurity. But the real solutions lie not in hatred, but relocalisation.
… class voters rightly rejected the corporate globalisation that has created so much poverty … endured by ordinary citizens in the era of globalisation. By failing to focus on the … social and economic insecurity: pro-corporate globalisation. And that is the silver lining …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
… Globalisation use it or lose it? George Helena … | 1st September 2004 Comment Global Economy Globalisation Localisation Globalisation Politics And Economics Society …
The uniting of 800 million rural workers against the loss of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. Resistance is far from futile, says Ed Hamer
… La Via Campesina Fair Trade Food Trade Globalisation Green Revolution Farming Food Security Fair Trade Globalisation Food And Farming … of their traditional way of life gives lie to globalisation’s claims to beneficence. …
A transformative Covid recovery must depart from the narratives of green capitalism and safe globalisation.
… Rethinking globalisation for a sustainable recovery Dr … October 2020 | News Editor’s Picks Economics Globalisation Stop US Trade Deal A … the narratives of green capitalism and safe globalisation. Economic recovery from Covid-19 …
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability
… Terrorism and globalisation Fritjof Capra | 1st May 2003 … Sustainability War Military US Politics Globalisation September 11 911 Terrorists US War Religion Globalisation Companies Oil Comment And …
Filmmaker, campaigner and environmental pioneer Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Jemima Roberts about her latest film - The Economics of Happiness - the damage globalisation is doing, and what can be done to counter it
… Norberg-hodge Economics Happiness Films Globalisation Politics And Economics … - The Economics of Happiness - the damage globalisation is doing, and what can be done … Norberg-Hodge knows a thing or two about globalisation. A visit to Ladakh, a remote …
How do the Maasai in northern Tanzania reconcile their values of reciprocity and social interaction with social distancing and the impacts of globalisation?
… with social distancing and the impacts of globalisation? Coronavirus ’ entry into the … health systems in America and Europe. Globalisation Coronavirus has caused an … bread, processed oils and sugary tea. Food Globalisation removed food sovereignty from …
Globally over 60 billion animals are farmed for food every year. The 2006 Report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, predicted that global meat consumption will more than double by 2050 (from 2001).
… Chickens, Globalisation and the Forest King Joyce …
Combining a detailed dissection of our unsustainable economy with an introduction to Buddhism, Sulak Sivaraksa’s economic vision provides an alternative to globalisation
… economic vision provides an alternative to globalisation In the wake of the global … pie-in-the-sky, how can it be funded? Can globalisation provide it? Does world … is perfectly placed to dissect the impact of globalisation. The Wisdom of Sustainability is …
The corporate market has become the institutional equivalent of a compulsive eater. It has a built-in hunger that cannot be filled, and it is hard to stop the damage within the framework of its own game.
… The commons: an antidote to globalisation Jonathon Rowe | 1st April 2008 …
The green movement's squeamish social liberalism has left it to the political right to exploit public concerns about population and immigration, writes Colin Hines. We must make the progressive case for controlling our borders, and restricting not just migration but the free movement of goods, services and capital where it threatens environment, wellbeing and social cohesion.
… wellbeing and social cohesion. In 2016, the 'globalisation is like gravity' brigade saw … an increasingly politically effective anti-globalisation stance. Given that the high … what form of protectionism should replace globalisation, now it's on the ropes. The …
Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation.
… a nation Gard Binney | 11th June 2000 News Globalisation Economy Consumerism Developing … Economy Clinton Ghandi Third World Sweatshops Globalisation Economics Green Living Politics … to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation. One of President Clinton’s …
Extinction Rebellion represents the emergence of large-scale direct action - but can it drive political change?
… Rebellion Fracking Cliamte Change Protest UK Globalisation London … disobedience have been commonplace among anti-globalisation movements for several decades. … began in Europe in the late 1980s, with anti-globalisation movements growing though the …
If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look no further than the invisible food giant Cargill. By Brewster Kneen.
… 2003 News Cargill Globalization Food Industry Globalisation Chemicals Pesticides Industrial … Pesticides Agribusiness Soya Processed Foods Globalisation Food And Farming Archive_132.jpg If you want to understand why globalisation is so destructive, you need look …
Plant pandemics threatening food of billions, scientists warn.
… | 14th April 2023 | News Climate Breakdown Globalisation Armed Conflict Plant Pandemics … of billions, scientists warn. Climate change, globalisation and armed conflict are … through the impacts of climate change and globalisation and we have to be prepared for …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… India: obesity, malnutrition and the globalisation of bad food Colin Todhunter | … indigenous agriculture under the guise of 'globalisation' for the benefit of …
The East India Company was the first multinational corporation - until its abuse of power caused a public backlash. Nick Robins examines its legacy to reveal how it set the corporate blueprint for today's firms to operate unchecked
… Nick Robins | 1st November 2006 News Globalisation Business Human Rights Violations Globalisation Politics And Economics Society … to plug the justice gap in 21st century globalisation. But this is not all that we can …
To achieve true sustainability, ecological movements across Europe must push for independence from an EU ideologically locked into a neoliberal 'free trade' agenda wedded to endless economic growth, writes David Acunzo.
… down of distribution networks ( i.e. de-globalisation), more circularity (reuse, … welfare. In fact, productivism and globalisation are enshrined into the Lisbon …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
… | 22nd June 2008 News Greenhouse Emissions Globalisation Campaigns Global Warming … equity ignores the fact that development and globalisation do not benefit the majority, but … South for their own short-term interest. The globalisation of the economy is also …
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era
… Growth Consumerism International Development Globalisation Politics And Economics Society … Karl Marx were writing today, in the era of globalisation, it is likely that he would … If Karl Marx were writing in today’s era of globalisation, it is likely he would recognise …
The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO<sub>2</sub>.
… exciting than a recycling of the same old globalisation mantras. Trade is not included … and planet, would be localisation rather than globalisation, moving towards a world where …
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture
… Nicola Graydon | 1st December 2003 News Leh Globalisation Sustainability Westernisation … Village Life Farming Tourism Community Globalisation Solar International Development … doesn’t share these feelings. When globalisation first threatened to overwhelm …