Savage, gangster capitalism      Savage, gangster c...      Consuming Cultures: Globalization and local lives Jeremy Seabrook New Internationalist, 2006 The hurtling speed of the global market knows no cultural boundaries. Languages, customs, rituals, and myths are swept aside with the global market's promise of security and prosperity. Is this promise false? Is the survival of pockets of local culture true resistance, or does it mean that cultural identities are being turned into commodities? Harnessing moving personal testimonies, this is ...             Sickness and Wealth: The Corporate Assault on Global Health South End Press, 2008 Health and Other Justice and Poverty Issues, Interwoven + What you need to know about the impacts of globalization + Corporate Control, Population Health and Dis-ease Sickness and Wealth is an enlightening and in-depth collection of essays on this, perhaps the most central, of corporate assaults. This book will raise any reader's awareness of how health care issues, especially in the third world, are naturally intertwined with the issues of poverty, ...             Bananas!: How The United Fruit Company Shaped the World Peter Chapman Canongate U.S., 2008 The Fruit of Corporate Greed + Bananas Bananas - How United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman After reading Peter Chapman's Bananas, I'll never look at that ubiquitous yellow fruit the same way. It is a well-written, engaging book that reads like an historical novel, sans dialogue. The story of the banana and the ...             The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time Antonia Juhasz Harper Perennial, 2007 Essential Reading + Meticulous documentation of the progress of Cartel economics and empire + Here's Why the US is in an Endless War! + The World Should Wake Up             The World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance Jose Correa Leite Haymarket Books, 2005 A good summery of the Global Movement + Another World Is Possible + There Is An Alternative A good introduction to the Global Movement. The first chapter "Spirit of Seattle" provides a critical, big picture view of neo-liberalism and late capitalism, which the subsequent chapters dive into the specific historical background of the World Social Forum. The book also offers various nifty ...             Capitalism's Brutal Comeback in China (Red Banner Reader) Susan Williams Red Letter Press, 2003 Analyzes how workers' gains from the 1949 revolution are being destroyed by massive privatization led by the bureaucracy.             Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World City Lights Publishers, 2003 Be the change you want to see! + An anthology of thirty-three essays by an immense variety GLOBALIZE LIBERATION is a fine compendium of writings by and for global justice activists, or just activists generally. With 488 pages and 33 chapters, full of great black & white photos and drawings, it is a veritable encyclopedia. The book is divided into 3 sections: 1) What's the problem? ...             Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (Global Issues) Walden Bello Zed Books, 2005 Trade über alles For Walden Bello, globalization is the accelerated world integration of capital, production and markets, driven by the logic of corporate profitability. It is a synonym for `trade über alles' or trade above equity, justice, environment, solidarity and community. The main headways for this ...             Evil Paradises: Dreamwor of Neoliberalism New Press, 2008 Max Rotholz, London + Just in Case you wanna know how bad things really are... + Evil Paradises: A Seminal Analysis of our Dadaist Reality Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is an important and timely book. It brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and takes us on a global tour too easily overlooked. Highly recommended.             The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein Metropolitan Books, 2007 Essential Reading + The Dark Side of Unrestricted Capitalism + Eye opening + More relevant than most Americans will ever know             Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization Sierra Club Books, 2006 Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred . In Paradigm Wars , he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an ...             Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Bloomsbury Press, 2007 great book + Confirms Naomi Klein + A qui profite? (who profits?) this book along with naomi klein's the shock doctrine, michael albert's parecon and robin hahnel's economic justice and democracy are the best modern criticisms of free market capitalism. though chang seems to favor some form of market socialism blended with regulated capitalism, and i dont fully ...             Dying For Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor Jim Yong, Joyce V Millen Common Courage Press, 2002 Not so! + Neoliberal polices and the poor - ugly human nature at work. + What's the connection between poverty and health? The previous reviewer, unfortunately, fails to understand much economics and likely rated this book for his own Republican purposes. As a Yale economist, I place my full support on the economics in this book. Unfortunately, the previous reviewer misses the point altogether, which has little to ...             The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Noreena Hertz Free Press, 2002 Compelling reading + The Death of Democracy through Capitalistic Suicide + Mind triggering, but just not elaborated well enough + Even-handed and thought-provoking             Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson Rethinking Schools Ltd, 2002 An incredible resource! + AWESOME RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS!!! + Interesting Vignettes on a Variety of Inter-related Topics Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson have put together a compendium of articles that attest to their central claim that, when thinking about the globalization phenomenon, "everything is connected. 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