Is the EU Constitution dead in the water?Although it may have disappeared from the headlines, right-wing European leaders have not given up on pushing through a binding EU Constitution providing total freedom for goods, services and capital, but few advantages for Europeans. a more neo-liberal anti-democratic document than the one rejected by the French and the Dutch would be hard to imagine, but what about the next one? What should European people be fighting for?Leading writer and alter-globalization activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. What must we...
Is the EU Constitution dead in the water?Although it may have disappeared from the headlines, right-wing European leaders have not given up on pushing...
The informal motto of the anti-globalization social movements has been Another World is Possible. Possible only if done right, argues George (associate director of Amsterdam's Transnational Institute and vice-president of ATTAC-France), addressing the neophyte as much as the seasoned activist. She lays out the basic case of those who fight agai
The informal motto of the anti-globalization social movements has been Another World is Possible. Possible only if done right, argues George (associat...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four "Ms" - money, media, marketing, management--but above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its "long march through the institutions" and changed the way Americans think. As the left went about its business in blissful ignorance, convinced that its policies, programmes and...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating,...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four "Ms" - money, media, marketing, management--but above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its "long march through the institutions" and changed the way Americans think. As the left went about its business in blissful ignorance, convinced that its policies, programmes and...
George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to "normal," right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating,...
Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it's growing poverty and inequality or shrinking access to food and water, the collapse of global financial markets or the dire effects of climate change, every aspect of this crisis can be traced to a transnational neoliberal elite that has steadily eroded our rights and stripped us of power.
And yet our world has never been so wealthy, and we have, right now, all the knowledge, tools and skills we need to build a greener, fairer, richer world. Such a...
Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it's growing pover...