Globalization Marches On By Noam Chomsky

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By Noam Chomsky
In These Times
March 26, 2010

Growing popular outrage has not challenged corporate power.

Shifts in global power, ongoing or potential, are a lively topic among policy makers and observers. One question is whether (or when) China will displace the United States as the dominant global player, perhaps along with India.

Such a shift would return the global system to something like it was before the European conquests. Economic growth in China and India has been rapid, and because they rejected the West’s policies of financial deregulation, they survived the recession better than most. Nonetheless, questions arise.

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StopFascismdotcom | July 17, 2009

This video is a visualization of Matt Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine”

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Keiser Report №21: One downgrade away from the end of the US empire + the Bubble Baron campaign

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Truthdig
Jan. 11, 2010

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By Paul Craig Roberts
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