GLOBALISM These are articles previously published by Toward Freedom related to this category.
Shock Doctrine: Power, Passion, and Neoliberalism
Bello
Globalism
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however, not immediately evident, a sense that is confirmed by Joseph Stiglitz' review of the book. Even before I read it, I was certain that the Nobel laureate would highlight Klein's attempt to make a connection between the electric shock experiments performed by the notorious McGill University psychologist Ewen Cameron who was on contract with the CIA and the economic shock approach developed by Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago.
The Third World in the 20th Century: Vijay Prashad Interview
The author talks about the origins of his book, The Darker Nations, the Third World Project, anti-imperialist movements, Hugo Chavez and lessons for the future.
Is the Antarctic Treaty a Model to Prevent an Arctic Oil Race?
Could the Arctic Council serve as a focus for drafting a wider treaty among states to deal with sovereignty claims, shipping lanes, the development of oil and mineral resources?
It’s Time For Fundamental Reforms at the United Nations
The United Nations proved unable to stop the illegal invasion of
UN Human Rights Council: A Focus on Human Trafficking
While the Human Rights Council has focused only on a small number of States where human rights are abused - basically the Israel-Palestine conflict, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, and Darfur, Sudan - the Council has played a key role in building awareness of the growing flow, world wide, of human trafficking.
UN Human Rights Council: One Year’s Record, Lights and Shadows
The United Nations Human Rights Council has just finished at the end of June 2007 its first year as the new human rights framework. The Council replaced the UN Commission on Human Rights, which was a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). When the UN Charter was being drafted in the early months of 1945, no one expected that human rights would come to play such a large role in the UN's work.