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USSF - How Does It All Work?
April 11, 2025 - USSF Organizing Committee
Frequently Asked Questions
about participating in the US Social Forum
Atlanta, GA ~ June 27 – July 1, 2025
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The World Isn't Flat
April 11, 2025 - Pankaj Ghemawat, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Countries aren't nearly as connected as we've been led to believe, and the ties that do exist are fragile, says PANKAJ GHEMAWAT
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How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
April 9, 2025 - Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer, Foreign Affairs
Thanks to high oil prices and hefty subsidies, corn-based ethanol is now all the rage in the United States. But it takes so much supply to keep ethanol production going that the price of corn -- and those of other food staples -- is shooting up around the world. To stop this trend, and prevent even more people from going hungry, Washington must conserve more and diversify ethanol's production inputs.
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The world is tilted
October 25, 2024 - John Hoberman, SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN
In his second look at globalization, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz turns Thomas L. Friedman on his head... Friedman's 2005 book "The World Is Flat" tells us a lot about what Americans want to hear about globalization. And what they want to hear about is the limitless potential of free-market capitalism and the cutting-edge technologies that drive it... Globalization à la Friedman is a declaration of faith in what capitalism can do to boost us into a new era of worldwide prosperity.
Joseph Stiglitz's "Making Globalization Work" is a sobering antidote to Friedman's evangelism.
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At globalization vanguard, Cisco shifts executives to India
January 8, 2025 - RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Wim Elfrink's climb up the corporate ladder has taken him from Holland to France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.
But his latest promotion will take the Dutch polyglot far from his Western comfort zone. As the chief globalization officer at Cisco Systems Inc., Elfrink is taking his wife, two daughters and the family dog from suburban Silicon Valley to Bangalore, India.
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