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an exploration in explanation, a deviance in conventional thought

When exploring what we know to be truth we find there is no truth. This world is made up of 6+ billion human perspectives and an innumerable amount of perspectives that belong to other living things. What perspectives dominate our world? Do those perspectives proliferate by repetition of their ideas, do they explain the realities or often oversimplify? Humans have molded this world into it's current shape and form, but is it one that is fair or democratic? Is it one that will last for as long as this earth is inhabitable? Is it one that promotes love, kindness, generosity, empathy? How about the freedom to live your life how you want? when thinking about the decisions made in life, were they to get a well-paying job, or were you truly pursuing your dreams; what dreams do people have today aren't somehow related to money (becoming an actor, successful musician, sports star.) How does our economic system, the purveyor of our basic needs, reflect on our culture and society? Does globalization actually uphold the virtues of economic stability and decreasing the gap between rich and poor? The gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest countries was about 3 to 1 in 1820, 35 to 1 in 1950, 44 to 1 in 1973, and 72 to 1 in 1992, 82 to 1 in 1995. (SOURCE: United Nations Development Report, 1999) Do children starve in the third world because the countries can't grow food or because the food grown on their land is exported? Do we play a part in natural destruction, human degridation, economic warfare? Perhaps the attempt to understand such things is meaningless, it's going to happen anyway right? One person may not be able to demand much, but multitudes of people thinking beyond the world we live has allowed the expansion of freedoms in the past (we don't live in the Middle Ages anymore.) Listen closely to the tele-promter readers on the television, are they representing public opinion or creating it? The same institutions that will spend hours and weeks repeating information about Michael Jackson is supposed to be informing you about the state of our world! So explore, learn, grow, and act, we create the world we live in and we give the power to these institutions.

Sept.22.2009-For now the site will manage links to sites and specific articles, to suggest a link or an article, an email would suffice!

Sept.24.2009-Started on the link archive for globalization among other subjects. I'm going to try to expand as I go, starting with the easiest links to find and then backtracking to post articles and sites to hopefully create a more balanced opinion.

Sept.29.2009-Links on food, health, and industry. There is a great full documentary on Monsanto.

"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"
— Lee Iacocca, CEO/Chairman, Chrysler Corporation, 1979-1992

"This is what free trade's all about, it's about the freedom to buy and sell anything—even people."
- Haniford Schmidt, WTO Representative

LINKS

Globalization and Economy
The International Forum on Globalization
Article: Globalization--Noam Chomsky
Article: Globalization and Its Discontents--Noam Chomsky
Video: How To Destablize a Country Legally--John Perkins
Video: Indonesia and Globalization--John Pilger
Video: Leaving Lehman-Exposing Wall Street--Sony Kapoor
Video: Frontline-Inside the Meltdown
The International Monetary Fund's View on Globalization
World Trade Organization's website
World Trade Organization's "real" website
Video: Super Rich: The Greed Game--BBC
Video: Taxes and Class War--Howard Zinn
Free Trade and Globalization--Anup Shah
Globalization Issues on Grinning Planet
Lobbying
Lobbying Statistics--1998 through 2009
Food and Health
Video: The World According to Monsanto--Must see documentary
Institute for Responsible Technology
OCA's Genetically Engineered Resource Center
Truth About the Dow--Dow Chemicals
Cancer Prevention Coalition--Consumer Risks
War and Imperialism
Video: A People's History of American Empire--Howard Zinn
American imperialism timeline-part 1
American imperialism timeline-part 2
Video: 1973 C.I.A. backed coup of the democratically elected Chilean government (Sp w/ subtitles)
Overview of C.I.A. back coup in Chile
Video: Noam Chomsky Interview on CBS
2009 Fiscal Year U.S. Government Budget--War Resisters League
Antiwar.com--News, Articles, Events
Alternative Media
Democracy Now!--Daily News Report
Independent Media Center
Dissident Voice--Radical Newsletter for Economic and Social Justice
Electronic Intifada--Palestinian News and Reports
Electronic Iraq--Respected News and Analysis of the War in Iraq
FAIR--Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Independent Media Center--News and Articles
Media Matters in America--Research and reports on the Media
Media Monitors--Articles, columns, and perspectives
Why Protest? Audio:Chomsky on 10 years after Seattle protests of '99
Anarchist News and Articles
The Anarchist Library
Infoshop News
The Zine Library
Anarchists Against the Wall--News from Palestine
Anarkismo--Multi-lingual News and Articles
Consciousness
The Global Brain--Peter Russel
Noam Chomsky on Humanism
Noam Chomsky on Humanism II
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