The Face of Poverty
The Method of Globalization
Implements of Destruction
The Ruling Elite: Operating Behind the Scenes
Research on Corporations: Mainstream
Research on Corporations: The People’s Case
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The following sites explore the dynamics inherent in the market economy.
While the sites listed here predominately reflect developments in the United
States, the centralization of capital results in the same developments
everywhere.
Growth With Inequality: Is There
Another Way?
http://www.cme.org/rothstei/ro960912.html
“Economic growth has combined greater returns to capital with lesser
returns to labor; wages and family incomes of those at the bottom of the
income distribution have declined.”
The Public Cost of Private Corporations
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/kogod/estes/corpcost.htm
Corporations speak loudly through advertising campaigns about how they
benefit society, but they do not often speak of the damage they do. This
site contains an article on the total public cost of private corporations.
Towards a Better Future: The Works
of Manfred Davidmann
http://www.solbaram.org/
This site contains many thoughtful articles on how multinational corporations
diminish local communities. Articles include: Exporting and Importing of
Employment and Unemployment • Multinational Operations: Transfer Pricing
and Taxation • The Right to Strike • Ownership and Limited Liability •
Creating, Patenting and Marketing of New Forms of Life • Community and
Public Ownership.
Who Is Downsizing the American Dream
http://www.access.digex.net/~cnp/obey1.html
Some people have a vested interest in maintaining the dysfunctional
conditions that drain resources and capital from local communities . This
site contains a valuable article by Congressman Obey, Chair of the House
Democratic Policy Committee that explains who those people are and how
they do it. There are two parts to the article. This site contains the
first part and points to the second.
Downsizing America
http://www.silcom.com/~timber/downsizing.html
The article at this site sees downsizing in political terms -- as a
byproduct of the weakening ability of governments everywhere to tax those
with political and economic power, and to regulate relations between capital
and labor in multinational corporations. It cautions that the agenda of
Republicans isn't really one of decentralization. Republicans actually
aim to shift power away from the national "liberal" elite to narrower,
more parochial and conservative power holders and their lobbyists in the
states -- not to the public as a whole.
The Mayas and The Global Market
http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/.mags/.cross/.41/.41chi/.mayash.html
This site shows how globalization affects people throughout Mexico
and Central America. “The global economy threatens the Maya and any other
community rooted in a collective, social model of land exploitation with
an irreversible separation from their lands.”
Urban Poverty - The Global Phenomenon
of Poverty and Social Marginalization in our Cities: Facts and Strategies
http://www.picced.org/advocacy/poverty.htm
"Efforts to improve all aspects of the living environment must be focused
on urban areas as that is where most of the people will live and work,
where most economic activity will take place and where the most pollution
will be generated and most natural resources consumed. Sustainable urban
development will, therefore, be the most pressing challenge facing humanity
in the twenty-first century."
Project on Environment, Population
and Security
http://utl1.library.utoronto.ca/www/pcs/eps.htm
Contains papers that examine the relationship of population, resources,
violence and migration. See "Urban Growth and Violence: Will the Future
Resemble the Past" for a look at the impact of globalization on third world
cities.
The Sticky Wicket: Poverty's Home
Page
http://www2.ari.net/home/poverty/
A very good source of articles about the present market economy and
its effects on people who become underemployed or unemployed. “A provocative
look at how we treat our poor, followed by a bold and creative vision of
self-help that would allow many to rise to the Middle Class.” This site
helps us integrate an understanding of poverty into our goals for self-reliance.
American Public’s Support for Helping
the World’s Poor
http://www.interaction.org/study.html
This site reports the findings of an American poll by the University
of Maryland that suggests that most Americans still are not aware of the
sharp reductions in U.S. foreign aid over the past decade during which
the US's international affairs budget has been cut in half. The new study
also confirms earlier findings that when Americans are asked to set their
preferred level of investment in international efforts, the majority usually
sets a level the same as or higher than actual levels. This is true, the
poll found, even when Americans are required to make trade-offs against
domestic spending priorities.
The Response of People’s Organizations to OECD policies
ACTIONAID Challenges OECD aid programs
http://carryon.oneworld.org/actionaid/news/170696.html
This coalition from all OECD countries reports that “too much aid is
being squandered by governments on projects which have more to do with
commercial and political advantage than poverty eradication.”
Global Investment Treaty Challenged
by International Coalition of NGOs
http://www.lut.ac.uk/departments/gy/gyedb/extra/ped/tncs/tncs1.html
Forty international environment, development and consumer organisations
express their outrage over the current status of the Multilateral Agreement
on Investment (MAI).
The Response of People’s Organizations to the World Bank
1992 - Environmental Defense Fund
http://www.edf.org/pubs/NewsReleases/1992/Oct/g_sardar.html
“We don't believe the World Bank can be trusted to use taxpayers money
in a responsible manner which helps the poor and the environment in developing
countries.”
1994 - Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk/pubsinfo/infoteam/pressrel/1996/19960909115504.html
Exposes the World Bank in an African rainforest scandal.
1997 - International Rivers Network
http://www.ran.org/ran/info_center/aa/nambikwara.html
Fighting to save indigenous people from encroachment due to a World
Bank project.
1997 - Results, Inc.
http://action.org/novglobal.html
Results, Inc., a large development organization points to the discrepancy
in the World Bank’s promises to make loans for health and education in
third world countries and its actual performance.
NAFTA's CASUALTIES Employment Effects
on Men, Women, and Minorities
http://epinet.org/ib120.html
The Economic Policy Institute’s analysis of the impact of NAFTA on
US workers.
Chilean, North American NGOs Demand:
No NAFTA Expansion
http://essential.org/listproc/tw-list/msg00039.html
The people’s organizations have this to say about NAFTA - “Three years
of experience under NAFTA has proved it to be an unmitigated failure for
most people in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Factors Blocking the Economic Development
of the World
http://www.cgtd.com/global/survey11.html
This article by the US-based, Center for Global Trade Development contains
survey results of what 1000 corporate executives from over 100 countries
consider to be the greatest problems that inhibit them from bringing local
economies under their control. While the Center supports multinational
capitalism, it points out a few legitimate problems at the local level
that organizers must face -- religious and ideological fundamentalism,
racism, lawlessness and mismanagement.
MAI: Potential Effects on State
& Local Government
http://www.westgov.org/wga/publicat/maiweb.htm
A Report by the Western Governors' Association (USA). They are quite
concerned.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/tradehome.html
This site provides the documents and sounds the call for citizen action.
MAI-Not! Project
http://mai.flora.org/
Canadians state: “Under this agreement governments would be ruled by
corporations, rather than the other way around.”
The Multilateral Agreement on Trade
(OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/daf/cmis/mai/mai.htm
This is the site of the OECD the vehicle for developing the MAI.
RIE Publishing
http://www.4rie.com/
Site of an international management consultant who couldn’t get any
publishers to publish his manuscript “Who’s Who of the Elite” because of
the subject matter. He put some information at this site: Bilderbergs;
Council on Foreign Relations; Trilateral Commission; Skull & Bones
Society; Bohemian Grove and Bohemian Club and other past times of the elite.
CFR/Trilateral Commission Members
http://parascope.com/mx/council6.htm
This site lists the current members of these ruling bodies.
Research on Corporations - Mainstream
New York Public Library: Science,
Industry and Business Library (SIBL)
http://web.nypl.org:80/research/sibl/hotlist/
Links to EDGAR • Public Companies • Websites of top 1000 companies
• Security APL Quote Server • Experimental Stock Market Data • Holt's Stock
Market Reports • American Stock Exchange • Economic Bulletin Board • Small
Business Administration • GATT • NAFTA • Links to other business resources
• Economic reports of the President.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
http://www.thomasregister.com:8000/
This site has an option for free membership through which you can access
vital information on manufacturing companies in the United States.
Dun and Bradstreet On-line
http://www.dnb.com/
Search for information on 60,000 companies that have web sites. Find
information on annual sales, company size, ownership structure, Web &
e-mail addresses, and much more. There are also fee-based services available.
Multinational Monitor
http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html
Multinational Monitor is a journal that tracks corporate activity,
especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances,
worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. This
site has Multinational Monitor back issues along with leads to other resources
on the Internet.
Corporate Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org/home.html
This site is dedicated to helping local organizers monitor the behavior
of multinational corporations. Pointers to: Home • Features • Bhopal •
Corporate Watch Info • Researching Corporations • Hot Links • Action Alerts
• Campaigner's Corner • Greenwash Awards • Archives • Image Gallery • Support
Our Work • Internet's Future • Hot News.
Financial Scandals
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals/
Is this business as usual? Contents: General Sources on Corruption
and Miscellaneous Articles • Barings Bank • Daiwa Bank • Sumitiomo Corp.
• Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) • British Official Organizations,
Political Parties Companies & Scandals in General • European Union
• Whitewater Scandal • US Muncipal Bond Scandals • US Political & Financial
Scandals in General • Other Countries • The Mafia and Organised Crime in
General • Money Laundering • Bribery • Insider Trading • Insurance Fraud
• Fighting Fraud: Forensic Accounting etc. • Finding More Information •
Locking the Stable Door After the Horse has Bolted.
Stop Corporate Welfare!
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/lysithea.htm
This site contains an article by Ralph Nader. "Not controlling what
we own should be a public issue, because if we begin to develop control
of what we own, we will marshal vast existing assets that are legally ours
for the betterment of our society. That will not happen unless we talk
about why people don't control what they own.
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