Friday, August 17, 2007

Changing the global economic order

'Is Another World Possible?' That was the theme of this year's annual meeting of the American Sociological Association that was held in New York City this past weekend. "We did not lose the battles of ideas. We were not outsmarted and we were not out-argued,” journalist and author Naomi Klein said. “We lost because we were crushed. Sometimes we were crushed by army tanks, and sometimes we were crushed by think tanks. And by think tanks I mean the people who are paid to think by the makers of tanks."

Naomi Klein featured on Democracy Now. You can read and watch the full speech here. Definitely worth the effort, something of a manifesto on the political economy of the global economy.

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