Globalization (n.) is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.
Globalization (n.) is a term conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
Globalization (n.) is a muddling word: by blending export orientation with neoliberalism, it lets China's rule-breaking growth be hailed as a triumph of the rules it broke.
Globalization (n.) comes, in the intelligence forecasts, with a widening economic divide, stagnation and alienation — and a violence aimed back at its leading power.
Globalization (n.) aims largely at discipline: a couple each working 50 hours a week to feed the kids has no time to think about libertarian socialism.
Globalization (n.) in its official version is forecast even by US intelligence to breed stagnation, alienation, and the extremism that turns its violence on America.
Globalization (n.) means producing wherever workers are cheapest and rules weakest, then booking the profits wherever taxes are lowest.
Globalization (n.) in its present form is a design, not a destiny: workers everywhere pitted against one another while the privileged stay sheltered.
Globalization (n.) is less new than it sounds: by trade and capital flows the economy is no more global than early in the twentieth century, and not really out of control.