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War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934....
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Nandigram, a riverine village in southern West Bengal, is well known all over the globe after the tragedy in 2007 on the conflicting issue of proposed land acquisition for petrochemical hub. The movement itself is an account of the peoples' reaction to such acquisition drive irrespective of location and community involved. This book is an illustrative document on the state of post-violence Nandigram with a logical interpretation of an empirical research....
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*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015*
This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation.
Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows...
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War is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the...
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California is at the cutting edge of technological change, demographic transformation, and international engagement. It has the country's largest population, and is its biggest producer of agricultural and manufactured goods, its main exporter and importer, and a leading center for higher education, research, the media, and philanthropy. Its population is the most international; more than a quarter of the state's residents were born in another country....
6) Endgame Apocalypse WW3 Will President Trump start World War 3? And why should liberals stop worry
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Will the division caused by Trump's presidency and unification of all faiths, lead to a holy war that could destroy all organized religion for good?
In this book, Kurt Robertson describes how a war between Russia and its allies and America and their allies could start in the Middle East expanding throughout the western world.
Leading to a global war, a new crusade between fanatics and terrorists versus Interfaith headed by the Vatican.
He explores...
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Globalization is one of the characterizing patterns of the 21st
century. Rapid advancements taking place worldwide has
resulted in improvement of developing nations around the globe.
Progression, a decrease in the cost of transportation as well as
innovations in this matter have lead to much more convenient
circumstances, that is, the movement to remote areas and work
with partners living abroad has become very much easier. It's
difficult to think...
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On the same day that reporter Jeffrey Kaye visited the Tondo hospital in northwest Manila, members of an employees association wearing hospital uniforms rallied in the outside courtyard demanding pay raises. The nurses at the hospital took home about $261 a month, while in the United States, nurses earn, on average, more than fifteen times that rate of pay. No wonder so many of them leave the Philippines.
Between 2000 and 2007, nearly 78,000 qualified...
9) Futurecast: How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live and Work
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What will life be like in America, Europe, Japan or China in the year 2020?
As everyone's lives across the world are become increasingly interconnected by globalization and new technologies quicken the pace of everything, the answer to that question depends on the fate and paths of the world's major nations. In Futurecast, Robert Shapiro, former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce and Chairman/Co-founder of Sonecon, looks into the future to tell us...
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En el presente ensayo, David Montesinos analiza la importancia de las obras de Naomi Klein (Canadá, 1970) sobre la deriva del capitalismo contemporáneo. Desde la publicación de No logo (2000) y La doctrina del shock (2007), Naomi Klein criticó las prácticas más opresivas del capitalismo y sus dolorosas consecuencias sobre millones de personas. Hoy sabemos que la destrucción acelerada del medio ambiente forma parte de la misma lógica de expansión...
11) The WTO
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In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law. Wallach and Sforza make clear recommendations for altering the undemocratic course that the WTO imposes on...
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What you need to know now about America's energy future
"Hi, I'm the United States and I'm an oil-oholic." We have an energy problem. And everybody knows it, even if we can't all agree on what, specifically, the problem is. Rising costs, changing climate, peaking oil, foreign oil, public safety? If the fears are this complicated, then the solutions are bound to be even more confusing. Maggie Koerth-Baker? Science editor at the award-winning blog BoingBoing.net?...
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What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity's homogenizing processes. This controversial book establishes fundamental similarities between anti-globalization "aurora" movements that aim to destroy the modern world and bring a radiant new dawn...
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Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental degradation. A return to capitalist growth threatens to exacerbate these problems, not solve them.
In The Poverty of Capitalism, John Hilary reveals the true face of transnational capital in its insatiable drive for expansion and...
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El libro compila las ponencias expuestas los días 5 y 6 de septiembre de 2002, en Paipa (Boyacá), entorno a los procesos de globalización. El evento contó con la presentación del ex presidente Ernesto Samper Pizano, Carmenza Kline y Almabeatriz Rengifo entre otros. Organizado por el Politécnico Grancolombiano, en asocio con la corporación Escenarios y la Universidad de Salamanca, el seminario agrupó a varios analistas que se dedicaron a explorar...
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The mistakes the United States has made in Latin America-and the high price it will pay for them. Could it be that for the first time in history, the United States needs Latin America more than the other way round? Since the early 1800s, the United States regarded the region as its "backyard," but in the past decade South America's leaders have increasingly snubbed US efforts to persuade them to adopt free-market economics and sign trade agreements....
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The Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America's leading elites, seek to establish "global governance." Further, they understand that in order to achieve global governance, American sovereignty must...
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A pioneering work, full of detail and depth of knowledge about Africa... a must read! Two powerful forces converged to shift global development in the last three decades from the West to the East and Asia. These same forces now make Africa the "construction site of the century." Africa in the decade 2040- 2050 will have a population of 2.5 billion people. Together with China and India, Africa will surely affect our planet's future! "Africans are and...
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Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement of imagination, affinity and identity.
It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and their goods, ideas or other belongings. It is the vessel of engagement between countries and peoples-assuming many forms, exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes-but border culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be visualized as a thread that runs throughout...
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