Globalism

GLOBALISM These are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.  

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A New Life for the IMF: Capitalizing on Crisis

Robert Weissman July 1, 2009 Robert Weissman

Security at IMF Headquarters
April's G-20 meeting - involving the heads of state of 20 of the world's most economically powerful countries - failed to yield an agreement on increased European stimulus spending or on new global financial regulatory rules. But it did feature one overriding tangible agreement: A commitment to expand massively the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order to channel funds to developing countries rocked by the financial crisis.

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Indigenous Peoples Outraged at Climate Change and False Solutions

Indigenous Environmental Network May 6, 2009 Indigenous Environmental Network

Native Mask (Photo: Langelle)
Anchorage, Alaska--At the first global gathering of Indigenous Peoples on climate change, participants were outraged at the intensifying rate of destruction the climate crisis is having on the Earth and all peoples. Participants reaffirmed that Indigenous Peoples are most impacted by climate change and called for support and funding for Indigenous Peoples to create adaptation and mitigation plans for themselves, based on their own Traditional Knowledge and practices.

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2009: The International Year of Reconciliation

Rene Wadlow January 21, 2009 Rene Wadlow

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed in Resolution A/61/L22, the year 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation "recognizing that reconciliation processes are particularly necessary and urgent in countries and regions of the world which have suffered or are suffering situations of conflict that have affected and divided societies in their various internal, national, and international facets."

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Will Obama Bring 1990s Food Policy to an End?

Wayne Roberts December 16, 2008 Wayne Roberts

Farmers Protest WTO in Hong Kong
Let's just say that Comrade George Bush's $700 billion no-speculator-left-behind bailout of US financiers - perhaps the most significant wave of government takeovers of the economic commanding heights since Fidel Castro's moves in tiny Cuba back in the 1960s - undermines the credibility of neo-conservative insistence that all problems must be solved through unregulated markets.