WHEN GEN. Suharto, the West's man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered "a gleam of light in Asia," rejoiced Time magazine.

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For decades we've been told that "there is no alternative" to global capitalism—that trust in the market was the only way to bring progress and end poverty, despite the clear absence of an actual end to poverty.

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Thomas L. Friedman doesn't believe that we have to cede this century to China:

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The U.S. fueled its housing and consumption bubbles by providing easy credit. China seems headed in the same direction, although the victims would be different this time.

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We've seen corporations use "free trade" agreements to quietly camouflage their push for exploitable labor in broader arguments about globalization. What we haven't seen is corporate special interests openly push for U.S.

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We as citizens of the United States need to take better care of our soldiers before and after they return from War. Who is protecting them while they are protecting us.

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After burning through $1-million (U.S.) in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice – they had to kill the cows.

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In his latest book, Toward Filipino Self-Determination: Beyond Transnational Globalization, Epifanio San Juan Jr.

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It happens every month: Millions of American pony up for the gas bill, mortgage or rent payment and real estate taxes--and subsequently watch their bank balances dwindle. That's because housing expenses are the biggest monthly expense most families face.

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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, and Debt is Recovery

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The SPP is dead. Let's keep it that way. With virtually no fanfare or media analysis, one of the most transformative agreements ever signed by Canada and the U.S. (and Mexico) is officially dead.

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Our global economy, like our political system, has been hijacked by a tiny oligarchy, composed mostly of wealthy white men who serve corporations.

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Do we really want our fellow Americans to live happier, healthier and longer lives these days?

I don't think we do. I think we're caught in the 1950's cold-war mindset of us v. them, that we think we're only competing against our fellow Americans, that we haven't really come to understand this whole globalization thing.

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Borlaug is widely hailed as the father of the Green Revolution—the grand effort, which started in Mexican wheat and corn fields in the 1940s, to bring industrial agriculture to the global South.

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This is part 3 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.

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This is part 2 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.

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This is part 1 of a great 3 part essay about the academic work of Mohamed Atta, the pilot of one of the two airliners that were crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September the 11th, 2001.

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Asian and African population would lead in growth of world population. Asians would be more educated to invade job market. Today's Globalization would one day become curse to the world, specially developed countries would fight to protect own population.

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"WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

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Prosecutors have been handed a file on the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London in April. They will look at documents and footage provided by the Independent Police Complaints Commission to decide whether to prosecute anyone.

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In December 2008, I had the honor of attending the signing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act reauthorization - named after British abolitionist William Wilberforce - in the Oval Office.

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On Christmas day I made my stand. I will no longer meekly engage in that economic melodrama like a sheep being led to slaughter. I choose not to live like I am powerless.

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Pope Benedict XVI signed his latest encyclical Monday, a text on ways to make globalization more attentive to meeting the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis.

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What would California look like broken in three? Or a Republic of New England? With the federal government reaching for ever more power, redrawing the map is enticing, says Paul Starobin

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By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: June 30, 2009 New York Times, "Paris Journal"

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