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Welcome to Globalization Watch,

Internationalism is a broad term referring to ties of solidarity and mutuality on an international scale. Corporate globalization is a term applying to the subordination of global ties and connections to the interests of corporate profit and national agendas. Globalization Watch is about reporting, analyzing, and envisioning to advance Internationalism and bring to a an end Corporate Globalization.

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    • Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010
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      On a pleasant autumn day in 1890 the Cuauhtémoc brewery was founded in Monterrey, Mexico. This brewery, which also specialized in ice production, went on to become Mexican Economic Development Inc. (FEMSA), brewing such beers as Dos Equis, Tecate ...
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    • Friday, Jan 01, 2010
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      November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers
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    • Thursday, Dec 10, 2009
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      Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that's causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a Band-Aid.
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    • Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
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      Book review: Clean clothes. A global movement to end sweatshops by Liesbeth Sluiter
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    • Saturday, Nov 28, 2009
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      Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.
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    • Friday, Nov 27, 2009
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      10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown
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    • Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
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      “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.”
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    • Sunday, Nov 15, 2009
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      The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organizatio...
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    • Thursday, Nov 05, 2009
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      Paper delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building on 16 October 2009
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    • Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
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      On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s act...
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    • Friday, Oct 23, 2009
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      The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countri...
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    • Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
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      Rescued from a state of near-irrelevance by the world recession and an infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars (mostly from the U.S., Europe, and Japan), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now thinking of expanding its role into previous...
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    • Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
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      I spent a good part of the other week watching the performances of Liberals and Conservatives in the Canadian House of Commons as they debated Bill C-23, implementing legislation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).
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    • Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
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      Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29
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      An Interview with Demba Moussa Dembélé on Africa's Postion in Corporate-led Globalization
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    • Monday, Sep 28, 2009
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      A review of Walden Bello's latest book, The Food Wars. Verso, 2009, 176 pp.
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    • Sunday, Sep 27, 2009
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      The G20 is not a system of international economic co-operation, or a board of directors, or a governing council for the global economy, to pick some of the terms that have appeared in the media. It is a forum where the heads of state of 20 economi...
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    • Saturday, Sep 26, 2009
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      Can Obama Help Forge A Global Consensus for Deep Economic Change?
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    • Friday, Sep 25, 2009
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      Carl Davidson's First-Hand Reports from the G20 Events in Pittsburgh
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    • Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
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      Here's a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects ...
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    • Thursday, Sep 03, 2009
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      The IMF is undergoing an unprecedented expansion of its access to resources, possibly reaching a trillion dollars. This week the European Union committed $175 billion, $67 billion more than even the $108 billion that Washington agreed to fork over...
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    • Saturday, Aug 29, 2009
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      Much has been said on the impacts of the crisis on the fundamentals of the economy and its social consequences, because of the artificial and unequal character of growth and its proven vulnerability, affecting both developed and developing countri...
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    • Friday, Aug 14, 2009
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      Kipping: You have participated in several World Social Forums (WSF). What hopes and expectations did you have? Have they been fulfilled?
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    • Thursday, Jul 30, 2009
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      However ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imp...
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      In this article I argue that contemporary organised humanism has its priorities wrong. It focuses most, if not all, of its resources on the negative impact religion has on independent thought whilst virtually ignoring how much powerful organisati...
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    • Saturday, Jul 25, 2009
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      Global trade flows and the economic stimulus policies of individual national economies will play an important role in the recovery from the current global recession. This is especially true of the world's two largest economies, the United States a...
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    • Thursday, Jul 23, 2009
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      Since the international organisations put poverty on the political agenda in the 1990s, little has been heard about inequality. This is quite amazing, since it was the income gap between rich and poor countries that gave rise to the development pr...
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    • Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
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      This year is likely to be the worst for the global economy since World War II, with the World Bank estimating a decline of up to 2%. Even developing countries that did everything right – and had far better macroeconomic and regulatory polici...
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    • Monday, Jun 15, 2009
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      Seeking to avoid a direct up-or-down vote on a proposal to send $108 billion to the International Monetary Fund, the administration, at the last moment, had the money stuck into a supplemental appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afgha...
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      Film review: Pig Business by Tracy Worcester
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