Globalization Begets Insecurity Begets Violence

[DUreader]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-05.htm


MUMBAI, India - The path of economic globalization must be changed in order to avoid
undermining social security. Otherwise it will continue to exacerbate poverty, and
therefore violence, warned World Social Forum panelists here Monday, including
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics.

"The essence of economic globalization is that it should bring job security. If there
were such a commitment, developing countries could have opened markets by
explicitly tying market access to job opportunities," said the U.S. expert who served as
the World Bank's chief economist from 1997 to 2000.

Economic instability and social insecurity
will lead to a rise in violence in the world
because it is impossible to separate
economic issues from social and political
issues, he said.

The loudest applause went to Stiglitz at
Monday's conference, "Globalization,
economic and social security", which
drew more than 1,000 of the reportedly
more than 150,000 people participating in
the Mumbai WSF.

[Valjean]

1. Indians need to realize ...

Indians need to realize that US citizens are NOT going to put up with this shit for much longer. It is wrecking our economy and nullifying the value of higher education.

More Americans will lose their jobs and benefits and have to work part time without benefits. They will see the light and start voting democratic. That is, they will vote for REAL democrats that will do away with this WTO and NAFTA nonsense.

When that happens, foreign markets that rely on US outsourcing will collapse virtually overnight.

[DUreader]

2. US Corpos and Multi-Nationals have plans to keep us all in line

[Sugarbleus]

3. Great post DUr n/t

[Just Me]

4. Why can't more people get that?

Economic instability and social insecurity
will lead to a rise in violence in the world
because it is impossible to separate
economic issues from social and political
issues,...

There is a whole long history of humanity that proves that proposition!!!

I suppose American people are in part responsible for failing to grasp that proposition because we either fail to pay attention or simply acquiesce or are just plain lazy. But, honestly,...a great deal of our own misperceptions have a hell of a lot to do to being handed misguided or false perceptions and outright devious misrepresentations.

Fortunately, we really are living in a world where information is more accessible. That fact may be the saving grace. Whether you love him or hate him, Bill Gates is hooking up the country, even primarily rural states like WV, to the information highway. Ultimately, he profits,...but so do the uninformed American people.

[DUreader]

5. they don't get it because propaganda works

re-read the appendix of Orwell's 1984, if you limit peoples vocabulary

they don't have the ability to form the thoughts