Category: globalization
Occupy Wall Street, shades of the sixties
Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the youth unrest in America in the mid 1960s through the ’70s. except that then (like it was here), the youth were not as focused, i guess because of the drugs, the sex, and … Continue reading
environment 9: sustainable devt
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS SPIRITUAL AND REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS Junie Kalaw Toward the end of this century as of the last one, dramatic changes have taken place under the impact of, among others, the industrial revolution, two world wars, struggles for political … Continue reading
do not delete (economic provisions)
verrrry interesting that it took that angry (complete with expletives) december 12 multisectoral anti-chacha rally to provoke former leftist now gma apologist-loyalist alex magno into revealing the real score behind the arroyo administration’s kulit campaign for charter change. apparently, suko … Continue reading
feeling the fall of america
wow. who would have thought that we would see the american economy collapse like a house of cards, bringing the whole world down with it. diyata’t hindi pala invulnerable ang superpower na ito. diyata’t nagkakamali rin, pumapalpak, bumabagsak. at … Continue reading
jun lozada, gma, and the rice crisis
jun lozada should rethink his campaign to expose gma’s involvement in the nbn-zte bribery scandal. the rice crisis simply trumps all other issues and naturally we are distracted, not just by the implications for the very poor and the not-so-poor … Continue reading
decoupling a dream, IMF hits panic button
there’s a lot of hoping and praying going around that asia has truly decoupled, i.e. weaned itself, from the u.s. economy. ibig sabihin kasi, it would be possible for the rest of the global economy to roll on despite the … Continue reading
a global recession?
clearly the world is trying to remain optimistic (don’t panic!) about the state of the u.s. (global) economy, but that’s only because the federal reserve jumped in with that hefty interest rate cut just when it did, in the nick … Continue reading