| Volume 5, Number 3, July 2008 |
Science, Democracy, and the Global Market
by Josep Luis Barona 约瑟夫•巴罗纳 |
Global Famine
by Michel Chossudovsky 米榭•丘素多夫斯基 |
THE STATE is being replaced as regulating agent of public policy by free market forces and private bodies. Controversial areas of the technology sector are resolved by external experts who are often professionals or private entities; media manipulation has become a key element in the control of information about the products of science and technology. The health industry sells technology as the main solution to health problems that could be better addressed by reforms in public health; at the same time, defence expenditure eats into science and technology budgets.
The Democratic Universe in Transformation
Over the course of the last twenty-five years, some of the essential mainstays of democratic society-as formulated and subsequently strengthened in Western societies after the Second World War-have been subtly but consistently transformed. The process has not affected the basic aspects of democracy...
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HUMANITY is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. This “globalisation of poverty”—which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonisation—was initiated in the Third World coinciding with the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the imposition of the IMF’s (1) deadly economic reforms.
The New World Order feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the natural environment. It generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife, undermines the rights of women and often precipitates countries into destructive confrontations between nationalities. Since the 1990s, it has extended its grip to all major regions...
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Free Markets
Behind the Food Crisis
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