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"Economic globalization," writes Jerry Mander, "involves arguably the most fundamental redesign of the planet's political and economic arrangements since at least the Industrial Revolution. Yet the profound implications of these fundamental changes have barely been exposed to serious public scrutiny or debate. Despite the scale of the global reordering, neither our elected officials nor our educational institutions nor the mass media have made a credible effort to describe what is being formulated or to explain its root philosophies." From which omission arises The Case Against the Global Economy.

The 43 essays in this collection comprise a point-by-point analysis of globalization and its consequences that demonstrates that the future may not be as bright as business leaders tell us. Among the highlights: William Greider examines how General Electric works to shape (with the goal of controlling) the political arena; Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach attack NAFTA and GATT for undermining the sovereign authority of democratic governments; and Wendell Berry looks at the concerted efforts of big business to destroy local, particularly rural, communities in order to plunder the environment without opposition. Several authors, including Satish Kumar, Jeanette Armstrong, and Kirkpatrick Sale, outline alternatives to the global economy based on "bioregional" principles of local self-sufficiency.Book Description
A great political debate has emerged over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy. The world's political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet's economy and political arrangements in ways that will affect humans and the environment more than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Global institutions such as GATT, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, and the World Bank, created with scant public debate or scrutiny, have moved real power away from citizens and nation states to global bureaucracies, with grave results.
The Case Against the Global Economy is the first comprehensive point-by-point analysis of the global economy, its premises, and its social and environmental implications. The work gathers forty-three leading economic, agricultural, and environmental experts who charge that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results from what has been promised.
Contributors include William Greider, Jeremy Rifkin, Ralph Nader, Vandana Shiva, David Korten, Wendell Berry, Kirkpatrick Sale, Herman E. Daly, Richard Barnet, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and more than thirty other analysts of the global economy. ... Read more

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The Hard Truth - READ THIS BOOK
If you want the truth about what "develpment" and "technological progress" are doing to the environment and the rich, diverse, and independent cultures of the world, read this collection of articles by leading expoerts on the subject.
Then boycott all corporate products and services.There is no alternative.For if we continue working for the corporations, and buying from them, we can do no more to help them.
GLOBALIZATION DESTROYS ALL CULTURES

Read the book and also the WTO agreements
I bought the book after reading Friedman's "The World is Flat". I am still struggling to find consistent answers related to global economy.
Now, the book is a must read therefore I give it 4 stars so people will buy it.
However, it shold be mandatory for everyone to compare those statements with the actual WTO agreements and the GATT (freely available at http://www.wto.org).
I treasured the book's articles good points, although I sensed some extreme takes. I do not like the ruthless, deregulated, trade ueber alles oriented world we are currently living in. Yet, statements like there is no mention of environmental issues are quite unfair. The very first lines of the WTO agreement include: "...seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development...". That means to me that the intentions are in place; if somebody (corporations-controlled-governments) is actually amending those basic rules, then those entities are to be blamed.
And you will find many points of such reflections if you actually give the other side a chance.
Said that, I think that something still smells fishy (I jsut noticed that Saudi Arabia wasn't part of the deal until 2 weeks ago, what's up with that).
Be intellectually democratic and do yourself the favor of indulging the pleasure of this text along with some critical analysis.

Rational arguments against the global economy
It's a shame a book like this is needed at all. We should have thought about this before we implemented our global economic system. Caught in an ever smaller web, countries are forced to compete for scarce resources, which are not the products of countries, but corporations. National sovereignties are destroyed. The environment is affected, since our economy judges our "goods" for value, rather than taking into account the environmental or emotional worth of something. Things become commodities and are prepackaged and sold back to us. For what? The question is something we should have asked before we allowed things to get this far.

A wake up message
This book is unlike most and was unexpected.Interesting that some who are considered left of center could be not socialist.This book will reveal that those who write here really do have the best of intentions for people and for nations.

Freedom and democracy.This book should be recommended to our corporate leaders before we export too many more jobs overseas.

What has the off shoring of manufacturing done for Mexico?Although we get things at a lower cost, the long run costs are greater.Most who produce the goods in Mexico cannot even remotely purchase what they make.They live or lived, depending on the product they made, in small, non-descript hovels, some in squalor.It is a long way from what JFK envisioned that economys could grow slowly yet purposely so people could increase wealth.

This book can be a warning if we take is as such.Wake up world and listen

43 Essays about the "global economy"
I first read this book in 1997 not too long after it was first published and again just recently, it is more relevant now because things described are coming down in the world. Some essays cover such topics as trade, the third world, explanations of GATT & NAFTA, mass layoffs in labor, the food supply & genetically modified organisms. Other writers question whether or not the idea of "globalization" is even sustainable, one starts to wonder exactly who is behind "globalization" and benefits from it 'cause the majority sure doesn't. There is a whole section of this book devoted to corporations and they way they function. Wal-Mart & General Electric get whole essays all their own, and richly deserved.

Usually books this accurate about the state of the world are just too depressing because the problems seem so entrenched and we're helpless to do anything about them. Not so here, the last section of the book focuses on community & localization and is uplifting.

I wish more people would read this book. ... Read more

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Gunner Star is a rush of adrenaline
Joe Fenton is a man down on his luck. He is living under a cloud of despair and about to reach his breaking point. Then, something happens that changes everything. A mysterious, charismatic stranger enters his life - a man named Gunner Star. Gunner Star is a terrific character, a larger than life persona, a mentor who guides Joe on his journey of revenge and redemption. Gunner Star is a testosterone drenched frenzied read that pays homage to everything from the sleazy pulps of the 1950's/60's to hollywood films. It is a fast reading rush of adrenaline, a novel that grabs the reader by the throat on page one and doesn't let go until 180 delirious pages later. It is a wild, inspirational ride - definitely one worth taking
Also recommended: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, Fight Club, Crash

I love this guy Gunner Star!
Imagine Vin Diesel as superman and you'd be close to summing up Gunner Star, the testosterone fueled hero of Caterino's debut novel.Written in the style of Chuck Palahniuk, Gunner Star is a cinematic page turner that will fill your head with images of four color crack.
So intense is the action and imagery that I had to resort to reading Gunner Star during the day, because it literally kept me awake at night.Caterino uses his screenwriting skills to full effect piling on scene after scene that fuse the anarchist glee of Fight Club with the revenge tales of Silver Age comic books.
But this just isn't another fanboy rehashing a Batman movie.Gunner Star shows flashes of brilliance as Caterino tells his story of Joe Benton, a broken man, who taps into his inner rage through the mentoring of the larger than life Gunner Star.
Filled with beautiful women, well written fight scenes, and a sprinkling of sex, Gunner Star will certainly appeal to boys of all ages, but women who enjoyed movies like Total Recall, Jacob's Ladder and of course the aforementioned Fight Club will love it too.I say movies because so vivid are Caterino's descriptions that I felt like I was watching a film instead of reading a book.
I have to admit I was a little disappointed in the ending, but what a small price to pay for the opportunity to spend a few hours with one of the most vivacious characters in pop literature, Gunner Star.

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This collection includes six songs with music by Matthew Wilder and lyrics by Tony Award-winner David Zippel: A Girl Worth Fighting For * Honor to Us All * I'll Make a Man Out of You (and Reprise) * Reflection * True to Your Heart. Also features lavish full-color illustrations from the film. ... Read more

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Disney's Mulan
I like this book and i also enjoy the movie of this book, i saw the movie first then i read the book and the book is pretty entresting, Most people well enjoy reading about this book,This book is cool, and i'm going to talk about this book. Once apon a time in china their was a war between the good and evil and Mulan dad was part of the war, he was on the good side who
deffends the great wall of china. When the war stated again everyone in china had to deffend the great empire again, and the ones who deffend china get gold, and most of the worrier of china are old, if they had a son, the son can take their place in the battle field, and Mulan dad was old and handi-cap, so Mulan didn't want to lose her father cause of the war. She pray to the ancester that she promise to come back, and she cut her hair short and look like a man and took her father sword and his amor and her ancester brought a dragon to come along with her to protect her, and she ran off on a horse to the camp where the worriers of china be at. This book is a good book and is base on a true story.

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Mulan is a strange young women compared to the other young girls in her town.She doesn't care for beauty and always asks alot of questions. When Mulan learns that her father has been drafted into Khan's army to fight the Tartars, she is shocked-her father is far too old and weak to go to war. She forms a brave plan, which she secretly forms. She asks her familys ancestors to guide her and they send her a small drangon that fits into the size of her palm to help her,and "At dawn she cut her hair short, put on her father's armor, and fastened his weapons to the horse's saddle."Mulan is excited and afraid, She studies the art of war, and becomes skilled with the sword. She passes the training test that no other man is traing camp could do.soon finds herself engaged in fierce combat with the Tartars. In an act of bravery her women hood is revealed... i won't tell you the ending! ... Read more

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book, 2 b&w photos and 70 minute vhs cassette on Jerry Goldsmith. Includes film excerpts from Patton, Basic Instinct, The Omen, Under Fire, Planet of the Apes, The Russia House, Rudy, Poltergeist and others he has scored. ... Read more