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The wierd and wonderful Jablkoň
Prague :: Czech Republic | about 12 hours ago
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Jablkoň, as they called the band, started off playing gigs in places around Prague that didn’t insist on specific genres. For as you’ll hear in today’s Music Profile, Jablkoň’s music rather defies easy explanation; a brand of distinctive folk blended...
Tags: Jablko, Czech Republic, Prague, World music, Music industry, Globalization, Entertainment Culture
Geneva ravaged by anti-capitalism protestors
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 20 hours ago
Credibility Anti-capitalism protesters have brought havoc to central Geneva during a demonstration against the World Trade Organization. They burned cars and faced up to riot police in a zone near the central bus station of the Swiss town...The violent protesters...
Tags: Geneva, Switzerland, Protests, International trade, World government, World Trade Organization, Globalization, War Conflict
Why Ocampo won’t spare Kenya
Khartoum :: Sudan | 1 day ago
Credibility In mid-September 2004, Kofi Annan was a man under siege. The United States had launched a war in Iraq without the Security Council’s authorisation, severely undermining the authority of the United Nations. Genocide was unfolding in Darfur. The UN and...
Tags: Mr Annan, Kofi Annan, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, Khartoum, Politics, Globalization, Humanitarians, Genocide, United Nations, War Conflict, International response to the War in Darfur
Sovereign wealth funds could have dangerous implications for us
Mumbai :: India | 5 days ago
Credibility Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are an important component of the GWFs. In the larger context of global macroeconomic balances, which are unlikely to be resolved soon, this acceptance is primarily due to the short-term consideration, particularly in industrial...
Tags: India, current accountability, Mumbai, Sovereign wealth fund, Public finance, Business Finance, World government, Macroeconomics, Globalization, Hedge fund, Investment, International economics
Import News: Mercantilism is not Free Trade
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 days ago
Credibility The evidence that the current tariffs of 10% on clothing and shoes serve no useful purpose is compelling...All that they achieve is to make clothing and shoes, which are practically all imported, more expensive for consumers...The Treasury had a look...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, International trade, Trade, Business Finance, World Trade Organization, Globalization, Inflation, Mercantilism, Economic sanctions, Interest, Free trade, Inflation targeting, Tariff, Real interest rate
Rebecca Solnit | Learning How to Count to 350
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic...
Tags: Seattle, WTO, climate change, Mexico, Berlin Wall, NAFTA, New York Times, free trade, Washington, wall street, Economic ideologies, International trade, Free Trade Area of the Americas, Washington Consensus, World government, World Trade Organization, Globalization, North American Free Trade Agreement
Downturn forces thousands into casual work
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The report, released exclusively to ABC's Lateline program, comes despite conventional wisdom that in the financial crisis employers have not sacked workers on mass, but merely cut their hours...Not a good thing, it wasn't expected but at the end of the...
Tags: financial crisis, University of Sydney, Unions NSW, changing job, Australia, Sydney, Labor, Labour relations, Casual employment, Employment classifications, Contingent work, Employment, Employment compensation, Labor history, Globalization, Employment law, Working time, Unemployment, Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard, Electronic Arts, Occupational safety and health, Cent, Business ethics, Trade union, Industrial Workers of the World, Australian labour law, Labor rights, Labor economics, Business law, Overtime, Leave
ASIA: Civil Society Steps Up Efforts Towards Alternative Economy
Asia :: Philippines | 5 days ago
Credibility Amid worsening poverty, income inequality and a host of environmental hazards that are afflicting many countries, what does the world need today? An economic model that encourages local initiatives for social entrepreneurship, builds smaller-scale and...
Tags: solidarity economy, Asian, Japan, social responsible, asian forum, National University of Malaysia, Philippines, Asia, Foundations, Economic ideologies, World Economic Forum, Social forum, Business Finance, Anti-globalization, Globalization, Social economy
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | 7 days ago
Credibility A People’s History of the Third World Nick Dearden review’s Vijay Prashad’s The Darker Nations The term ‘third world’ is now out of fashion, but Prashad’s argument in this book is that the third world is not simply about geography.
Tags: Vijay Prashad, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Non-Aligned Movement, Globalization, Superpower, Sukarno, Kwame Nkrumah
Globalisation is our future
Tōkyō :: Japan | 7 days ago
Credibility To millions of people around the world it means a job and a better standard of living, to millions of others it is seen as a threat. For Australia it is our future. In fact, few countries have more to gain from globalisation than we have. Globalisation...
Tags: China, Japan, Korea, Tōkyō, Globalization, Postmodernism, Sociocultural evolution, Trade, Business Finance, World government, Cultural geography, Economic geography
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