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FOREIGN POLICY | The elephant in the room
United States global hegemony is coming to an end. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | August 19, 2021 [This article was adapted by the author from a 2017 post that appeared in The Rag Blog.] An empire in … Continue reading
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Trump won because Democrats have lost touch with the working class
We must go beyond the borders of our cities and beyond the easy coalitions we’ve relied on. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | November 10, 2016 Like all progressives, I take no joy in the rise to power … Continue reading
RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : Cristina Herencia on Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
Peruvian social psychologist Cristina Herencia on Rag Radio, Friday, June 29, 2012. Video by Jeff Zavala of ZGraphix who filmed the show live at the KOOP studios in Austin.Rag Radio:Peruvian social psychologist Cristina Herenciaon indigenous peoples and globalization By Rag … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Dreyer : David Bacon on U.S. Policies and the Great Mexican Migration
Journalist, author, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon.Rag Radio:David Bacon discusses how U.S. policiesfueled the great Mexican migration By Rag Radio / The Rag Blog / March 21, 2012 Noted journalist, author, documentary photographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon … Continue reading
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Social Forum Movement : ‘Another World is Possible’
Mural from 2009 Kentucky Social Forum, promoting U.S. Social Forum, June 22-26, 2010, in Detroit.Resistance to ‘globalization’:The Social Forum movement At the dawn of the new century, a new tradition, inspired by the hundreds of years of resistance, was launched… … Continue reading
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Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism
John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled “Tragic Prelude,” in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Today’s fanatic, tomorrow’s saint It’s popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Climate Change, Extremism, Globalization, Philosophy, Religious Fanaticism, Slavery, Social Activism
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Barack Obama : Stop the Runaway Train
President Obama: Stop the runaway train of globalization.Long range strategic innovation: Globalization, the financial crisis, environmental planning, and getting out of Afghanistan By Ray Reece / The Rag Blog / November 5, 2009 Call this a lesson in how to … Continue reading
Somali Pirates: Other Than What We Are Told?
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about piratesBy Johann Hari Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War … Continue reading
Improving on Worker Exploitation : Smart Stitch
Ouch !!! What else can we possibly say? New Portable Sewing Machine Lets Sweatshop Employees Work On The Go Source / The Onion Thanks to Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog
The Severe Price of Globalization and Free Trade
Do you wear Hanes underwear?By Buck Batard / November 29, 2008 Before you buy another pair of Hanes underwear, perhaps it would be helpful to learn what 11 year old Halima does in one of the factories that makes Hanes … Continue reading
A New Model for Managing International Trade and Development , Part IV
Click here for all the posts in the series. In Development……only one road leads to Rome, Part 4By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / November 15, 2008 A Proposal for a New Trade and Development Paradigm The WTO GATT … Continue reading
