Antomia Juhasz ved Foreign Policy in Focus har en fantastisk bogtitel, der faktisk siger det hele om sagen: "The Bush agenda: Invading the world, One economy at a Time", Regan Books, 2006. Hvordan bogens indhold er, kan jeg af gode grunde ikke vide noget om.
"Some countries globalise, and others are globalised," Ollanta Humala, præsidentkandidat i Peru, 2006.
290406, International Herald Tribune, William Pfaff: "Why Europe should reject U.S. market capitalism" Den amerikansk-britiske markedskapitalistiske model, der dikterede afregulering og privatisering i 1970erne og globalisering i 1990erne er ikke uundgåelig, men resultatet af frie politiske beslutninger og ideologiske valg. Den monetaristiske økonomiske opfattelse udelukkede sociale hensyn fra de økonomisk-politiske beslutninger. I en bevidst kamp mod den keynesianske tradition skulle den økonomiske politik koncentrere sig om et mål, pengeforsyningen. Det er ført videre i en afhumanisering, som har omformet amerikansk virksomhedskultur fra at virksomheden havde en national identitet og tjente ejerne, de ansatte og samfundet til en type virksomhed, der formelt alene skal producere "værdi" til aktieejerne, men reelt mere koncentreres om at belønne ledelsen. Systemet er i USA så yderligere forvredet af den korruption, der ligger i, at begge partier er afhængige af støtte fra [de samme] virksomheder.
De røvere, der har møvet sig til en formue ved mere eller mindre urene metoder, forsøger altid at skaffe sig et pænere eftermæle ved "humanitært" arbejde. Nobel, Bill Gates, Ford Foundation er de større. Men fidusen bruges også af de små banditter som Percy Barnevik med Hand in Hand International. (Sydsvenskan, 090308).
www.opensecrets.org samler oplysninger om firmaers bidrag til de amerikanske partier/præsidentkandidaters valgkamp. Der er oplysninger om bidrag til samtlige kongressens medlemmer og lister over hvilke organisationer, der bidrager med. For visse kerneområder er der også en oversigt over, hvordan lobbying har ændret politikken.
EarthRights International beskæftiger sig tilsyneladende mest med Myanmar (Burma). Motto: Human Rights and the Environment: A connection we can't ignore.
Centre for Research on Globalisation Instituttet hvor Michel Chossudovsky arbejder. Masser af stof om imperialismen.
CorpWatch Holding Corporations Accountable
From The Wilderness Publications Michael C Rupperts side. LAPD officer mod CIA. Velorienteret. mange gode artikler.
Global Policy Forum, holder øje med hvad der sker i FN, fremmer ansvarlighed i globale afgørelser, fremmer folkelig deltagelse m.m.
http://www.50years.org/ Fifty Years is enough (IMF/World Bank)
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/
Center For Cooperative Research, http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/home.htm
Center for Economic and Social Rights, http://www.cesr.org/
Council for a Livable World, http://www.clw.org/
Economic Democracy Through Worker Co-ops, http://www.workersnet.org/index.htm
Global Vision News Network, http://www.gvnews.net/
The Ethical Globalization Initiative (Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Musimbi Kanyoro)
David C Korten, "Race to the Bottom" from the book "When Corporations Rule the World", Kumarian Press, 1995 (While competition is being weakened at the core, it is intensifying among smaller businesses, workers, and localities at the periphery as they become pitted against one another in a desperate struggle for survival. What the corporate libertarians call becoming more globally competitive" is more accurately described as a race to the bottom.)
Ken Reiner: "Corporism: The systemic disease that destroys civilization" , http://informationclearinghouse.info/article3310.htm
031105, The Independent, Andrew Gumbel: "Wal-Mart: is this the worst company in the world?", dansk resume.
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250406, ICH, Paul Craig Roberts "Wars, Debt and Outsourcing." The World is Uniting Against the Bush Imperium. The federal budget is deep in the red, adding to Anierica's dependency on debt. The US cannot even go to war unless foreigners are willing to finance it.
"No economy, [Leo] Hindery [CEO, Global Crossing] said, "can survive the offshoring of both manufacturing and services concurrently. In fact, no society can even take excessive offshoring of manufacturing alone." According to Hindery, offshoring serves the short-term interests of shareholders and executive pay at the long-term expense of US economic strength. Today the constituency is quarterly earnings. A country whose business class has no sense of the nation is not a superpower.
America's superior military firepower is not enough to prevail in fourth generation warfare. The Bush regime has reached this conclusion itself, which is why it increasing speaks of attacking Iran with nuclear weapons.
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220605, The Guardian. Jeremy Rifkin: "Capitalism's Future On Trial"
271105, Times of India: Indien er ikke utilfreds med at General Motors har nedlagt 30.000 stillinger i USA, 450 af dem havnede i Halol i Gujarat, så nu er der 1600 GM medarbejdere i Indien. Der er planer om at bringe det op til 4000.
290106, Noam Chomsky, Ireland.com. Marshallplanens formål var at skabe grundlag for de multinationale selskaber.
300106, The Independent. Philip Thornton. Gordon Brown, Joseph Stiglitz m.fl. har i UNDP lavet en plan, der kan skaffe 7000 milliarder USD til løsning af Verdens problemer. Det handler om salg af forureningsrettigheder, konkursmulighed for stater, skat på valutaveksling og lignende.
En umiddelbar vurdering ud fra The Independents artikel giver det indtryk, at man vil redde globaliseringen - og som sædvanlig lade forbrugeren betale. Nogen af forslagene kan sikkert bruges.
010206, ICH, Paul Craig Roberts Stemningen i Davos er anderledes i år. Man begynder at indse, at globaliseringens gevinster for den industrialiserede verden udebliver ! Outsourcing af mellemklassejobs, programmører, systemudviklere, læger, gør at det kun er top-virksomhedsledere, der vinder på globaliseringen.
200306, Bloomberg har et (faktisk 2) eksempel på, at globaliseringen nu også slår tilbage på USA. Dubai International Capital LLC, som ejes af Emiratets regering købte først et antal amerikanske havne, hvad der gav anledning til - ganske forståelige - sikkerhedsbekymringer, nu har de budt 1.2 milliarder USD for Doncasters Group Ltd. et britisk firma, der ejer 9 amerikanske fabrikker, der laver dele til tanks og fly (40 % af Doncasters omsætning). [Der er simpelthen fabrikationer, som man må holde i hjemlandets eje. Baner, veje, vandforsyning, telefonledninger, hospitaler, skoler, etc. er blandt disse - skal man fremstille våben falder det i samme kategori, OJ]. Dubai International købte sidste år andel i DaimlerChrysler AG for 1 milliard USD og købte Tussaufs Group for 800 millioner GBP.
PWC Logistics, ejet af Kuwait stat har en kontrakt på 14 milliarder USD for at fodre tropperne i Iraq !
070506, Global Info, Emad Mekay, U.S.-Israel-Jordan Pact Created Near-Slavery Conditions. "Major U.S. companies, including Wal-Mart, Gloria Vanderbilt, Target, Kohl's, Victoria's Secret and L.L. Bean, are buying apparel from sweatshops in Jordan under a three-way trade deal that binds the Arab nation to Israel and the United States, according to a new report...The report by the New York-based National Labor Committee says that the U.S-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has descended into human trafficking and "involuntary servitude." Part of the FTA, the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZs) program, launched by Washington in 1998 as an economic dividend for Jordan's peace agreement with Israel, gives products from the zones duty- and quota-free access to the U.S. market as long as the Arab nation sources at least 8 percent of their content from an Israeli manufacturer...The new report, whose authors chose to focus on conditions of foreign workers, known as "guest workers," says the boom to the industry came at a hefty human cost and goes on to enumerate examples of abuse to workers and squalid working conditions."
150606, CounterPunch, GABRIEL KOLKO, "The Demons of Greed are Loose" Why a Clobal Economic Deluge Looms. IMF har fået reduceret sin betydning. I 2003 havde man givet lån på 70 milliarder USD. Nu er man nede på 20. Det hænger samen med de stigende råvarepriser. Mere af långivningen er gået over til "private equity funds" som er mere ustyrlige. "Essentially, "deregulation and liberalization", which the IMF and proponents of the "Washington consensus" advocated for decades, have become a nightmare, creating "tremendous private and social benefits" but also holding "the potential (although not necessarily a high likelihood) for fraqility, instability, systemic risk, and adverse economic consequences." Kreditderivater, et marked, der ikke eksisterede i 2001, udgør ved slutningen af 2005 over 17000 milliarder USD. Og der ingen, der begriber, hvad det egentlig er ! "Banks simply do not understand the chain of exposure and who owns what. Senior financial regulators and hankers now admit as much....Problems are also inherent in speed and complexity, and these are very diverse and almost surreal. Credit derivatives are precarious enough, but at the end of May the International Swaps and Derivatives Association revealed that one in every five deals, many of them involving billions of dollars, involved major errors...Stephen Roach. Morgan Stanley's chief economist, on April 24 of this year wrote that a major financial crisis was in the offing and that the ability of global institutions to forestall it - ranging from the IMF and World Bank to other mechanisms of the international financial architecture - are utterly inadequate...The IMF's iconoclastic chief economist. Raqhuram Rajan, at the same time warned that the hedge funds' compensation structure encouraged those in charge of them to increasingly take risks, thereby endangering the whole financial system. "
DER SPIEGEL 28/2006 - 10. Juli. 2006 Frakrig er det eneste industrialiserede land, hvor markedsøkonomien ikke opfattes som fair og legitim !
210107, Information Clearing House Blog, William Greider, The Beginning of the End for Corporate-Led Globalization? Måske er der nu så mange skeprikere eller modstandere i Den amerikanske Kongres, at der kommer en reel debat. Der ligger et anti-sweatshop forslag fra senatorerne Byron Dorgan og Sherrod Brown. Dorgans forslag opererer med importlicenser for at få bugt med handelsunderskuddet.
240207, Inter Press Service News Agency, LATIN AMERICA, Protests Mount Against Mining Giant. Canadas Goldcorp Inc. driver en åben guldmine i San Martin ved San Ignacio i Honduras. En undersøgelse sidste år på 10 personer, der bor i området, viste et højere bly og arsen indhold i blodet end den anbefalede maksimalværdi. Som sædvanlig forsøger virksomheden at afdramatisere problemet. Næsten 60 % af verdens mineselskaber er canadiske og giver et overskud på 40 milliarder USD til Canada ! Man skulle jo mene, at et sådant bidrag til Canadas nationalprodukt burde medføre canadiske miljøstandarder også i 3. verdenslande !!!
130607. ICH, Paul Craig Roberts, The Truth Comes Out About Offshoring. "Since 2004 I have written a number of articles pointing out that offshoring is really labor arbitrage and that if offshoring had the mutual economic benefits associated with free trade, there would be US employment growth in export and import-competitive industries. Instead, employment in these industries has declined in the US but grown remarkably in Asia. In the 21st century the US economy has been able to create net new jobs only in nontradable domestic services, such as waitresses and bartenders and health and social services. Moreover, the growth in productivity and GDP attributed to the US economy were inconsistent with the stagnant real incomes of Americans. Somehow productivity and GDP were growing strongly, but it wasn't showing up in the incomes of Americans."
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