Links from Globalisation talk at Manchester Students Union, Feb 2004

IDEOLOGICAL

Serge Latouche Cannibalistic Universalism or Identity Terrorism (in French)
<http://www.redhouse-sofia.org/engl/projects/p_lectures/downloads/texte%20conf%20Latouche.doc>.

ECONOMIC

http://www.gatswatch.org/

http://www.corporateeurope.org/

"It's about the dollar and the euro" [seigniorage]
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/iraq.html

http://www.feasta.org/
Feasta aims to identify the characteristics (economic, cultural and environmental) of a truly sustainable society, articulate how the necessary transition can be effected and promote the implementation of the measures required for this purpose.

MILITARY

Constant Conflict Ralph Peters
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm

The Enemy as A System John A Warden III
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/warden.html

POLITICAL

US:UN by Peter Gowan
The American origins of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945, and the duality of US usages and conceptions of it ever since: from the Cold War through the collapse of the USSR to today’s war on terror and occupation of Mesopotamia.
http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25801.shtml

ECOLOGICAL

Herman Daly and the global commons

Peak Oil
http://www.peakoil.net/

Permanent Global Summertime
(PEE.gee.ess.tee) abbrev. Permanent global summertime; the ability to purchase at the wholesale level certain fruits and vegetables from different parts of the world at different times of the year, thus enabling retailers to offer this produce either year round or for longer periods than their traditional local growing seasons.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/PGST.asp

Thermohaline Shift
Very recent piece from 'Fortune' magazine. Beware Military men in search of a raison d'etre. For the low down on Andy Marshall, see Ken Silverstein, Private Warriors
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,582584,00.html

Piece by a neuroscientist called William Calvin from 'The Atlantic Monthly' 1998
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jan/climate.htm

Virtual Water
(VUR.choo.ul waw.tur) n. The water used to produce the goods that a country imports; the water that a country would require to produce domestically the goods that it imports.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/virtualwater.asp

http://www.ihe.nl/vmp/articles/Projects/PRO-Virtual_Water_Trade.html

WEB LIST

http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
huge American site. Lots of Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Cynthia Peters, Edward Herman, David Edwards etc

http://www.counterpunch.org/
Very interesting investigative magazine from the US. Always worth a look...

www.schnews.org.uk
weekly newssheet of UK/World-wide direct action for ecological and social justice. Excellent 'tabloidese' analyses of various issues.

www.newleftreview.org
pretty damn cool stuff from a 'libertarian left' perspective. Watch especially for Wallerstein, Gowan and others of the 'World Systems Theory' school

www.newsinsider.org
CNN for people who care about being informed...

www.medialens.org
Excellent site that focusses on the 'filters' that make the media the fun-fair mirror they are.

http://www.peacenews.info/
Peace News

http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/
The Spokesman

READING LIST

Enloe, Cynthia
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (1990),
The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993)
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000).

Said, Edward
Fanon, Frantz The Wretched of the Earth

Shiva, Vandana
http://www.vshiva.net/vs_cv.htm