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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
… Intelligence Conservation Finance Free Trade Globalisation Politics And Economics Society … IMf has also started preaching the gospel of globalisation, which means capital is free to …
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
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One of Canada’s most well known photographers, Edward Burtynsky, has travelled the world documenting the link between nature and industry through his large-format photos of nature transformed through industry; the ‘manufactured landscapes’ of mines, dams, and factories.
Man's Industrial Progress Phil Moore | 25th September 2008 Reviews Manufactured Landscapes Film Industry China Consumerism Companies Society Manufactured_WEB.jpg One of Canada’s most well known …
Sometimes it’s good to take a peep at what the enemy is up to. I spent last weekend reading the New York Herald Tribune, and I’ll sometimes look at The Economist. Both these publications are excellent in their way – the Tribune is far superior in writing and information to The Times, for example – but essentially feed the greed of a business-minded readership anxious to figure out what is going on in the world, the better to profit from it.
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Don’t be afraid of the recession, says Andrew Simms , it may just be the lucky break we need to get our heads around a more sane economy and a better quality of life
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Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken Felicity Lawrence | 1st September 2004 News Diseases Parasites Chicken Foreign Proteins FS Battery Hens Battery Chickens Factory Farming Food Hygiene Factory …
Today, while hunger stunts the lives of hundreds of millions of people, grassroots movements in Kenya and Brazil are winning the war on want. Frances Moore Lappé investigates
… dismisses any alternative to corporate globalisation, stating: ‘There is no more mint … only a sophisticated critique of corporate globalisation but an alternative coming to …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory...
The Gift and the Word Bil Talen | 5th January 2009 Comment Christmas Consumerism Christmas Consumerism Politics And Economics Society Archive_168.jpg We interrupt our regular programming for a moral …
We are obsessed with our odour. We slavishly scrub off all that makes us distinct as members of a species, and then spray ourselves liberally with a homogenous fug of the latest mass-marketed musk. Jeremy Smith wonders why
Scent and sensibility: our obsession with odour Jeremy Smith | 1st November 2002 News Perfume Scent Fragrance Identity Consumerism Society SWEETEXCESS_NOV03_MAIN_1.jpg We are obsessed with our odour. …
Where does the Green Party go now? Last week's uninspiring election results show that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour poses a serious challenge to us Greens, who can no longer succeed by being merely left wing. We must fulfil our own destiny, representing a distinct, authentic ecological strand in politics, making the case for living as if we only had one planet - as is in fact the case.
… Localisation and resilience vs 'free trade' globalisation; Quality vs. quantity; Green vs. …