Introduction. I. Reading Set Number One: The Consumer. "Manufacturing Desire," by Ignacio Ramonet, (May 2001,
Le Monde Diplomatique). "A (Mild) Defense of Luxury," by James B. Twitchell (from "Living It Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury." Colombia University Press, 2002; also reprinted in
The Chronicle of Higher Education March 15, 2002).
"The Dubious Rewards of Consumption," by Alan Thein Durning (
Worldwatch Institute, "How Much is Enough?" (c) 1992, www.worldwatch.org).
II. Reading Set Number Two: The Laborer "Slave Labor Means Big Bucks For U.S. Corporations," by Michael Schwartz (Daily Bruin U. California-Los Angeles, January 31, 2001).
"Behind Roses' Beauty, Poor and Ill Workers," by Ginger Thompson, (
New York Times, February 13, 2003).
III. Reading Set Number Three: The Capitalist. "The Unremarkable Record Of Liberalized Trade," by Christian E. Weller, Robert E. Scott and Adam S. Hersh. (
Economic Policy Institute Briefing Papers, Oct 2001.
"After This: Whatever Capitalism's Fate, Somebody's Already Working on an Alternative," by David J. Rothkopf (
Washington Post, January 19, 2002).
"The Difference Between Money & Wealth," by David Korten (
Business Ethics, January/February 1999).
IV. Reading Set Number Four: The Nation-State. "War And Peace," by Eric Hobsbawm (
The Guardian, February 22 2002).
"The Eagle Has Crash Landed," by Immanuel Wallerstein (
Foreign Policy, August 2002).
V. Reading Set Number Five: Population. "U.S. Eugenics Like Nazi Policy Study: Forced Sterilizations Carried Out Longer Than Thought," by David Morgan (
Reuters, February 14, 2000).
"Peru Apologizes For At Least 200,000 Forced Sterilizations," (
United Press International, July 25, 2002).
VI. Reading Set Number Six: Poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development. "Global Poverty: The Gap Between the World's Rich and Poor Is Growing, and the Dying Continues," by Thomas W. Pogge (
Public Affairs Report, Vol. 42, No. 2, Summer 2001).
"Global Falsehoods: How the World Bank and the UNDP Distort the Figures on Global Poverty," by Michel Chossudovsky.
VII. Reading Set Number Seven: The Environment. "The Environmentalists Are Wrong," by Bjorn Lomborg (
New York Times, August 26, 2002).
"Corporations Urged Not To 'Appease' Environmental Groups," by Marc Morano (CNSNews.com February 03, 2003).
"Environmental Trends," by Peter Montague. (
Rachel's Environment and Health News, #737 November 8, 2001).
VIII. Reading Set Number Eight: Health and Disease. "Southern Sickness, Northern Medicine: Patently Wrong," by Philippe Riviere (
Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2001).
"2 Paths of Bayer Drug in 80's: Riskier Type Went Overseas," by Walt Bogdanich and Eric Koli (
New York Times, May 22, 2003).
IX. Reading Set Number Nine: Indigenous Peoples. "The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize by Helena Norberg-Hodge (from The Case Against the Global Economy-And a Turn Toward the Local," edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith,
Sierra Club Books, 1996).
"In the Native Way," by Tom Goldtooth (Reprinted from
Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter 2002).
X. Reading Set Number Ten: Peasant Protest. "Farm Unrest Roils Mexico, Challenging New President," by Ginger Thompson (
New York Times, July 22, 2001).
"The New Peasant's Revolt," by Katherine Ainger (
New Internationalist Magazine, #353, January-February 2003).
XI. Reading Set Number Eleven: Antisystemic Protest. "Who are the Global Terrorists?," by Noam Chomsky (Reprinted from Ken Booth and Tim Dunne eds.,
Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order, Palgrave/Macmillan, UK, May 2002).
"Euro Law Wrongly Defines Terrorism," by John Brown. (
Le Monde Diplomatique, February 2002.
XII. Reading Set Number Twelve: Religious Protest. "On a String and a Prayer: In Nation After Nation Religion Has Taken on a Role as the Primary Force for Political Change," by Mark I. Pinsky (
The Orlando Sentinel, December 14, 1997).
"Does Religion Promote-Or Subvert-Civil Society? " by Timothy A. Brown,
Civnet Journal, January-February 1999, Vol 3. no. 1.
XIII. Reading Set Thirteen: The Citizen-Activist. "Reading Number 1: The Growth Consensus Unravels," by Jonathan Rowe (
Dollars and Sense: The Magazine of Economic Justice: Issue #224, July-August 1999).
"The Prosperous Community: Social Capital and Public Life," by Robert Putnam (
American Prospect Vol 4, no 13, March 21, 1993).
