Book Description
China is the world's number-one growth story now. But how is it that China has achieved such quick growth in this era? How is it that made-in-China products can flood the globe? Is a trade war going to happen? Or is a new world order in the making? This second volume of a trilogy-by Chinese journalist/consultant George Zhibin Gu-aims to answer these questions and more.
Today, more than a half-million overseas companies conduct business inside China. Learn about all the opportunities this exploding market presents, including banking, insurance, and stock market, as well as the yuan and trade and cross-border business issues. Moreover, it contains extensive studies on China's political-economic reform as well as evolving international relations.
This volume addresses eight key topics:
I. China's New Role in the World Development
II. The Yuan, Trade, and Investment
III. China's Fast-Changing Society, Politics, and Economy (in light of Chinese and global history)
IV. China's Banking, Insurance, and Stock Market Reforms
V. Chinese Multinationals vs. Global Giants
VI. The Taiwan Issue: Current Affairs and Trends (federation as an alternate way for unity)
VII. India vs. China: Moving Ahead at the Same Time
VIII. The Japan-China Issue: Evolving Relations in Light of History
Today, all nations increasingly rely on one another for development, a trend that will only strengthen as time passes. As a saying goes, "The future is being shaped today." This book will appeal to readers everywhere regardless of their particular interests.
Customer Reviews:
Cooking With the Iron Rice Bowl.......2007-03-27
Part reference, part musing, part insightful and timely analysis, George Zhibin Gu's latest book "China and the New World Order: How Entrepreneurship, Globalization, and Borderless Business are Reshaping China and the World" is a welcome and refreshing read among the endless new titles printed on China today.
Picking up on a focus of his previous book "China's Global Reach...," Gu goes further and identifies the chief impediment to China's latest and perhaps most difficult transition as the Chinese state itself. Gu reveals the seemingly historical inevitability of China's vast government apparatus but explains that Communist Party bureaucracy is unique in Chinese experience in the size and scope of its all-encompassing control.
In topics relative to today's readers Gu ably demonstrates through the book that changes in China come from the revived entrepreneurial instinct of the Chinese. Along with huge foreign investment China's ever-growing private sector is the outside influence that is challenging Chinese bureaucracy as never before. But while the Chinese people struggle to create a law-based society and break the bureaucracy's grip on all aspects of economic life, the Chinese state seeks an equal footing among world national powers.
"China and the New World Order" is nicely segmented into short but highly relevant chapters. As in his earlier works Gu deftly examines the pros and cons of numerous hot-button issues on China. For example he takes on the Taiwan - China knot and proposes an interesting solution, a federation or federal system as a means toward meaningful (and mutually beneficial) reunification although his federal system shares more similarity to a commonwealth in the opinion of this reviewer. Gu's look at delicate state of Japan and China relations reveals that Japan remains as apprehensive over Chinese growth and potential as it was in the past. In examining the India versus China debate Gu shows that there is far less competition (as Western press prefers to portray it) and more similarities between the two giants of Asia.
There is plenty of current information here and the detailed contents and summaries make the book a good quick reference for anyone with an interest in what's happening right now in China. And there are goodies such as a lengthy interview with Mark Mobius and a foreword by Hoover Institute fellow William Ratliff.
At one point in his analysis, Gu intriguingly compares the struggle in China to the old European church-state alliance. With that view in mind, what may be needed next and with luck what Chinese entrepreneurs may succeed in bringing is a Chinese "Glorious Revolution."
The most important book I read in the last 5 years.......2006-12-25
This new book from Dr. George Zhibin Gu is a geo-economics and geopolitical masterpiece from an insider, someone that thrives his consulting work and daily life inside China, not writing or comment from a comfortable chair in London or New York paid by a western think tank, or only for academic proposals. His challenge is to write for a broad audience out of China. I must refer his clever suggestions about Taiwan - a political proposal for a a federation - and the way he sees the go global from Chinese emergent multinationals. It is needed a lot of courage for an insider to be so clear in his proposals and to identify the old Chinese problem - bureaucracy, the same that stopped admiral Cheng Ho and the Discoveries in the XV Century, that closed China for so many centuries and gave an opportunity for foreign powers to humiliate China, hyper-bureaucracy that in the Mao period pulled China for chaos and economic and social distress. China and the New World Order is a must reading. Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of www.gurusonline.tv and translator of Made in China (published in Portuguese language).
Is a new world order in the making?...It might just happen........2006-12-15
Base on the number of book in relation to this matter so far I believe that no one has come close to capturing "new China's" spirit and meaning as Gu. After reading his second volume I found it to be hugely insightful on the current events of China and global affairs. It greatly explores the key factors that shape Chinese and global development in the next stages. It gives tremendous info and analysis on the Chinese government, politics, business and economy for any one's interest.
There's a huge amount of info on foreign businesses inside China. You will be able to see about twenty five American and global multinationals inside of China that are studied. In the meantime it gives us a very provocative analysis on China's new role in the world. Gu details this general picture of how China is walking away from a practical society and embracing an open, restless and dynamic society. It claims that an overextended, self-appointed bureaucracy remains the key problem for China. To overcome countless technical barriers, greater openness, entrepreneurship and global involvement is all needed. Again, it's very insightful on the issues between China, Taiwan, Japan, India and West. I will add that his analyses on Japan-China line up are very interesting as well as Taiwan. There' a tremendous amount of info and analysis on China's financial, banking, insurance and stock market.
Author George Zhibin Gu is a very outspoken and a well known Chinese journalist who has generally covered mergers and acquisitions, capital activities, business expansion, and restructuring. He's an insider who gives us scrupulous examination on current China and global affairs which is more than a reason why you should grab hold to this book.
Insightful and Intelligent.......2006-12-11
George Gu provides a depth of understanding that distinguishes his work from most other business books. His wide network of contacts gives insight into emerging trends. He provides useful context that western authors often lack and Chinese authors frequently take for granted.
Prepare for the Dragon Market - Winston Ma, Author of "Investing in China: New Opportunities in a Transforming Stock Market.......2006-11-07
For the international investor community, "Investing in China" in the new century is more or less a one-way investment and capital flow. Mr. Gu's book, however, looks one step further to explore how all these interactions would reshape the global horizon, both for China and the rest of the world.
In fact, China's outward influence is increasingly obvious. For instance, whether China would diversify its foreign currency reserve -- and consequently whether China will enter into the gold market to hedge its US dollar exposure -- has profound implications in the global financial markets.
Comparing to many other books on China, Mr. Gu's book has a truly "authentic Chinese" flavor. The reason is obvious: He is an INSIDER. As a native Chinese, he captures the spirit of China's latest developments in its not-too-short historic context.
Book Description
Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks."
Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in which government officials--police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators--exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders to tackle crime, terrorism, and the routine daily grind of international interactions. National and international judges and regulators can also work closely together to enforce international agreements more effectively than ever before. These networks, which can range from a group of constitutional judges exchanging opinions across borders to more established organizations such as the G8 or the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, make things happen--and they frequently make good things happen. But they are underappreciated and, worse, underused to address the challenges facing the world today.
The modern political world, then, consists of states whose component parts are fast becoming as important as their central leadership. Slaughter not only describes these networks but also sets forth a blueprint for how they can better the world. Despite questions of democratic accountability, this new world order is not one in which some "world government" enforces global dictates. The governments we already have at home are our best hope for tackling the problems we face abroad, in a networked world order.
Customer Reviews:
Exceptional Read.......2005-02-10
This book is a must-read for any student of International Affairs. By providing historical and present-day examples of international and transnational relations among states, Dean Slaughter brilliantly lays the framework and provides justification for a new disaggregated, effective, and just world order. Both synoptic in organization and substantive throughout, this book will prove valuable to all readers regardless of political affiliation or school of thought.
Highly Recommended!.......2004-10-25
This excellent, thought-provoking analysis covers a widespread but little studied shift in the way the world works. The advance of international communications, technology, economics and finance networks has had an unmistakable effect on business and industry. The ways states function has also changed - shifting the operation of the world order. Author Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is on expert ground. She asserts that networks of financiers, regulators, judges and even legislators can solve problems that would be intractable if left only to traditional states and familiar international organizations. She provides many examples of such networks, notes the criticism against them and suggests norms to govern their conduct. Her book is not light reading. Readers need some familiarity with international organizations and institutions (sometimes cited by unexplained acronyms), but we highly recommend this book to sophisticated observers of international policy.
Book Description
In this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalization of poverty.
This book is a skilful combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving financially and economically.
In this new enlarged edition -which includes ten new chapters and a new introduction-- the author reviews the causes and consequences of famine in Sub-Saharan Africa, the dramatic meltdown of financial markets, the demise of State social programs and the devastation resulting from corporate downsizing and trade liberalisation.
Published in 11 languages. More than 100,000 copies sold Worldwide.
Customer Reviews:
Another brilliant book by Chossudovsky!.......2007-04-16
Chossudovsky is a brilliant economist and a burning torch for the truth that people are unable to see, hear, or accept due to the propaganda schemas that are embedded in their minds (like a microchip programming) by the global media cartel and the political demagogues.
Chossudovski analyzes the past and the present in relation to debt, globalization, and international financing. He dispels the myth of the good samaritan (like the IMF, the World bank, and the Federal Reserve, etc) that destroys economies of other countries, and impoverish them under the guise of capitalism (actually corporate socialism) and freedom, in order to own them. He clearly elucidates the dollarization process and its role in the New World Order. This book makes a powerful reading that sheds the light on a vanishing truth. I would highly recommend this volume to anyone who is interested in world finance as well as their future, and the future of their children.
Brilliant and Comprehensive.......2006-05-06
Although it saddens me to see a strong literature emerging today that was largely anticipated and ignored by people like David Barnett with his Global Reach work in the 1970's, it is a good thing that strong voices like those of this author are now making very comprehensive documented cases for how corporate power and privatized wealth are collapsing nations, bankrupting economies, and impoverishing more and more people unnecessarily.
The table of contents of this book is extraordinarily details and brilliant in its organization. Although the book is mostly case studies that one can read through rapidly if accepting of the author's key points, this may well be one of the finest itemizations of the ills of the 21st century: corporate power run amok, privatization and concentration of wealth (which is, incidentally, one of the precondition for revolution), the collapse of national and local economies (e.g. Wal-Mart), the dismantling of the welfare safety net in most countries, and the outbreak and spread of famine and civil war.
The author is probably the foremost scholar and commentator on how the "free" market is not so free, and how the existing capitalist system is predatory, aided by locked in privileges that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank impose on nations foolish enough to accept their intervention. In this the author is consistent with Jeffrey Sachs (The End of Poverty) who has put forward the need for a complete make-over of developmental economics, to include an end of the normal business practices of the IMF and the World Bank.
I was tempted to remove one star for lack of sufficient reference to the works of others, but the personal insights and comprehensive review caused me to leave the ranking at five stars. I see a clear pattern emerging in the literature (see my other 700+ reviews) and what I am waiting for is for someone to cut the spines off all these books and "make sense" of the total picture in a manner comprehensible to the indivdual voter.
If we are to restore informed democracy and moral capitalism, this book is one of the foundation stones.
A rigged free market system.......2006-03-30
M. Chossudovsky attacks head on the New World Order imposed by the World Bank (WB0), the IMF and the WTO, calling their economic 'reforms' enforced on countries in distress not less than genocides.
Their 'free market' system is rigged. The WTO agreements grant entrenched rights to the world's largest financial and industrial conglomerates, derogating the ability of national governments to regulate their economies. The IMF programs enforce governments to privatize big chunks of their national economy, liberalize their markets and downsize social provisions (education, health, social security).
Their 'free' market system is synonym of human poverty, destruction of the natural environment, social apartheid, racism and ethnic strife, undermining of women's rights, economic dislocations, forced displacements, landless farmers, shuttered factories and jobless workers.
More, he accuses the IMF of supporting the appropriation of global wealth by speculators through manipulation of currency and commodity markets. It even manipulates itself its economic statistics in order to show that its policies work. Finally, it cooperates with warmongerers and 'peace keepers'.
He illustrates his verdicts with a host of examples.
Somalia: the entire social fabric of the pastoralist economy was undone through duty-free beef and dairy products from the EU.
Rwanda: the restructuring of the agricultural system precipitated the population into destitution, leading to a genocide.
Ethiopia: the Structural Adjustment Programme caused starvation.
Bangladesh: a devaluation and price liberalization exacerbated famine. Deregulation of the grain market meant dumping of US grain surpluses.
Brazil: enhancement of social polarization by supporting the land-owning class.
Peru: after liberalization, the price of bread increased more than 12 times.
Russia: helping the oligarchs.
India (Andhra Pradesh): repeal of minimum wages and support of caste exploitation
Yugoslavia: serving the strategic interests of Germany and the US by cutting the financial arteries between Belgrade and the republics.
Korea, Thailand, Indonesia: the vaults of the central banks (100 billion $) were pillaged by international speculators. The bail-outs of those countries were underwritten and guaranteed by the same Wall Street banks involved in the speculative assaults.
The author proposes a solution which will be extremely difficult to implement in our actual world, where media and governments are controlled by the powerful: democratization of the economic system and ownership structures, disarming of speculation, redistribution of income and wealth and rebuilding the Welfare State.
Michel Chossudovsky's book constitutes a devastating denunciation of an inhuman system sold by economic strangulating wolves clad in sheepskins.
It confirms the forceful analysis of globalization by Joseph Stiglitz.
A must read.
I also recommend a voice from the South: Walden Bello.
The Road to Serfdom.......2005-01-11
I was originally born in Uganda and I can assure you that Africans have always been suspicious of the so-called "aid" they receive since it almost always comes after a crisis that they can't quite explain (like how did a bunch of poor, illiterate preteens get the money to buy those fancy weapons, or why won't aid agencies buy food from the local farmers and distribute THAT).
Suspicions and rumors are insufficient to counter what appears, on the surface, to be international generosity. That is why I am grateful for Chossudosky's contrarian masterwork. It confirms the fears and suspicions regarding a return to colonialism and economic slavery. The fact that Chossudosky was willing to put his career on the line to write this hard-hitting book is worthy of our attention. He shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that there is a deliberate and systematic campaign of "economic genocide" against Africa and all other resource-rich regions. Neoliberalism have mastered the British colonial-era double-speak of "liberty", "democracy", "markets", etc. "Market liberalization" is nothing more than armed robbery. And "investment" is really nothing more than "asset stripping". The Adam Smith phraseology of free-trade and free markets is used, much like their British predecessors, to recolonize the world. Chossudosky shows how the "Washington Consesus" has embarked on a foreign policy strategy of economic sabotage and "strangulation." As Kissinger famously ordered, in the now declassified National Security Memorandum 200, Africans should be kept from becoming consumers of their own raw materials.
Chossudosky does an enormous favors to us neophytes by decoding the neoclassical econo-babble. His brilliant deconstruction of IMF structural adjustment policies is worth the price of this book alone. But he goes beyond that. He shows how nations can be brought to their knees through currency devaluations and speculative attacks. The whole cynical process of creating the crisis then blaming it on the victims, i.e. the "Asian" Crisis which is in fact an American Crisis, or the excuse used to maintain Odious Debt on impoverished nations: "their corrupt leaders are to blame for the Odious Debt". Yes but those "corrupt" leaders were trained at American military bases (much like the 9/11 hijackers), and are killing us with American made weapons (thanks again Kissinger). Besides, everytimes Africans (or Latin Americans) try to put a reformer or socialist democrat in power, he develops a nasty habit of being assisinated.
This book will make you angry at how long and how often you've been lied to. Everything you thought you knew about economics will be tested as the Machiavellian machinations of international creditors, grain companies, and financial "investors" is revealed in page after riveting page. I also recommend Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism and Horowitz' Emerging Viruses. If it's not out of print then get The Merchants of Grain. Some publishing companies are refusing to publish some of these books because of their controvesial nature so get them before they're made "out of print".
"There are none so blind . . . ".......2004-03-29
With the North American governments and their media flacks noisily championing "economic liberalisation", dissenting voices are muted. The voices of those most directly affected by "globalisation" are fainter yet. Michel Chossudovsky attempts to overcome the raucous proponents of "international free trade" with an examination of just what it does and how it impacts civil societies. The picture he provides isn't pleasant. However, turning away will not cause it to fade from lack of our attention. In fact, reading this book is an eye-opening, if not eyebrow raising experience.
Among the rare critics of globalization Chossudovsky has "on-site" credentials beyond his academic base. He's been on the scene of several nations subjected to International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies. He examines the results of these and other international financial agencies' policies. From Chile through Rwanda to Somlia and Korea, he shows how a new form of warfare is under way. Conquest no longer requires bullets to occupy a nation nor suppress a people. Conquerers now wield position papers, American dollars or Euros and trade impositions. Surrender agreements come in the form of "conditions" accompanying loans and investments. These dicta result in the stripping away of social programmes, alienation of subsistence farm holdings and displacement of vast numbers. These people, deprived of income, traditions and opportunity have become a new breed. They are the hopeless poor for which no amount of "aid" can provide succour.
As he demonstrates repeatedly, the mechanism is simple. The formation of the IMF gave financiers, chiefly North American, a cudgel to change governments, force farmers and pastoralists to convert to cash crop economies, and reduce or eliminate government services. The initial steps were instituted by the Bretton Woods conferences designed to restore nations devastated by World War II. Private financial institutions imposed conditions on loans granted to recovering countries. "Recovering" countries rapidly expanded into "developing" countries as these institutions recognised the value of cheap labour in them. Accepting "foreign investment" led to indebtedness difficult to repay. Defaulting was unacceptable to both borrower and lender, leading to new rounds of loans. These, however, rarely reached the borrowing nation since the new funds were set against the older debt. "Servicing the debt" meant imposition of stringent conditions, ranging from privatisation of services, amalgamation of small land holdings to produce crops to be purchased cheaply, but sold at inflated prices. The consumers of these goods are you and your neighbours.
Each of the nations Chossudovsky examines suffers the same schedule of "structural adjustment programmes" imposed by the IMF. These SAPs outline the changes a nation must endure to receive the "benefits" of globalization. Restrictions on outside investment must be eliminated, with the concomitant privatisation of state-owned facilities and services. Where workers aren't laid off, their wages are frozen or reduced. Local currencies must be adjusted to American dollars, which has the impact of intense inflation spirals almost overnight. The result is a populace under increasing pressure, marginal or famine-stricken and powerless. Civil unrest isn't an option, since disruption brings reprisals - often, of course, the withdrawal of investment, failure to renew loan guarantees or simply real military action.
Although the repetitive nature of the manipulations of the financial institutions on national sovereignty leads Chossudovsky to some redundancy, the reader should understand we are dealing with a global crisis. "Bitter medicine" and "bitter irony" recur, because the circumstances he describes are redundant. An imposing and sometimes intimidating account, he is careful to shift the responsibility to institutions rather than consumers. It is, however, the developed country consumer that provides motivation for many levels of the problem. Chossudovsky's analysis is thorough, well-founded and expressive. He shows why social unrest in "developing" countries is the result of imposed conditions, not unstable populations and environments. That he offers little in the way of solutions for the predicament the world now suffers is only testimony to the immensity of the task ahead. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]
Book Description
A visionary road map for humanity's first global democratic revolution.
All over the planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt and disaster. The world is run by a handful of executives who make the most important of decisions—concerning war, peace, debt, development, and the balance of trade. Without democracy at the global level, the rest of us are left in the dark. George Monbiot shows us how to turn on the light.
Emphasizing not only that things ought to change, but how to change them, Monbiot develops an interlocking set of proposals that mark him as the most realistic utopian of our time. With detailed discussions of what a world parliament might look like, how trade can be organized fairly, and how underdeveloped nations can leverage their debt to obtain real change, Manifesto for a New World Order offers a truly global perspective, a defense of democracy, and an understanding of power and how it might be captured from those unfit to retain it.
Customer Reviews:
Lose the protest how-to guides and read this one book!.......2005-04-19
A lesson in not judging a book by its cover. What looks like a manual for anarchist or Marxist revolution turned out to be a very critical look at both the state of the world and the movements attempting to change it. Monbiot is clearly looking for pragmatic answers to global problems--he utterly refutes anarchy, Marxism and self-appointed world constitutionalists. Buy one for your protestor friend and help them understand how to make a real difference. For those who are looking for a bit of idealism mixed in with their practical politics, however, Monbiot satisfies as well. I was reminded of Emery Reves' Anatomy of Peace from the 1940s and thanked the powers that be for this "updated" version.
Misses the Target.......2005-01-18
George Monbiot lays out his proposal for a New World Order which consists of two major points:
1. A global parliament
2. A restructuring of unguided capitalism (ultimately a destruction of capitalism which he advocates in the end) in favor of a more democratically "fair" trade scenario in which people of all economic levels have a greater say in how their economic situation is presented.
Monbiot claims to be an enemy of the usual Marxist or Anarchists who currently seem to dominate the global justice movement. He is instead in favor of highly democratic, global system of economic governance that would ultimately make governments and huge mega-corporations "play fair" in the global economic arena. As he purports, the globalization phenomenon has placed the world in the hands of mega-corporations and has been taken out of the hands of its global citizens where it should be. Rampant, unchecked capitalism has taken the form of an all consuming monster that feeds on the poor nations of the world, says Monbiot, and it is up to every citizen to demand a stop to this unbalanced, raping of poor countries.
Monbiot is well aware that his cause could be construed as some form of Marxist, or socialist foundation, so he makes great efforts to distance himself from that notion and to place himself in a global democracy; a true democracy, as he says. One unlike what we have now where poor nations and our environment are at the hands of unrestrained capitalists. Part of this global parliament would arise mostly out of a revamped economic system that would resemble the current fair trade movement already in play (a trade policy where individual companies, independent from WTO control, demand fair labor laws, fair prices, and consumer awareness in order to create an economic base that is mutually beneficial to everyone in the production chain on all levels: not just beneficial to a corporation and consumer).
To be honest, I didn't really get much out of this book. Monbiot makes some good points about why this world revolution needs to occur, but provides little incentive other than to "get off your duff and do something." Also, while his vision is very specific and elaborate, it is going to take a series of steps that merge in his direction, not a single revolution as he suggests. These steps may not even fulfill his ultimate goal, but could be implemented to satisfy all involved. But by simple pointing out the evils of unbridled capitalism, Monbiot will not persuade anyone in power-positions to listen to him (which, I guess he accepts and is depending on "the average man" to step up to the plate). He attempts, in the beginning, to present a very logical, and non-radical approach to the problem and its solutions, but by the end, he comes off as just another radical, wannabe revolutionary who has nothing really to offer except anger at the system. Anger that is understandable, but his presentation is very similar to Marx's manifesto (in the sense that it is aimed more at those already involved in the global justice movement).
He attempts to bridge the gap between players already immersed in the anti-globalization, and global justice movements, but ultimately only sings to the choir. Monbiot fails to bring in new members to his cause and fails to thoroughly educate one on the basics of the global justice movement, or the ramifications for an average Western citizen. In other words, what's in it for me? I realize that the suffering of poor nations should be enough to get me fired up, but by Monbiot's book alone, I don't feel as though the problem has been thoroughly delivered. If this were any other book on the subjects of global economy and its pitfalls, I wouldn't expect the author to have this responsibility. But putting this book in the form of a manifesto is supposed to do just that: declare to the world your cause, the problems, and the solutions in a clear, concise manner (even at the end of the book, Monbiot admits that he wrote this book in reverse order by mistake. He talks about the global parliament first, and then a restructuring/destruction of capitalism when he should've talked about the new economic systems needed to bring about a global parliament first). If one can't convey one's message to the masses who aren't already on board, then Monbiot will never get the mass revolution he desires.
Visionary and timely food for thought.......2004-11-30
George Monbiot's 'Age of Consent', to give this book its original title upon its initial publication in the UK, is a powerful and visionary call to arms from a seasoned campaigner of the Global Resistance Movement. With devastating clarity of thought, the author sets out a detailed and ambitious blueprint for creating a fairer, more just world, while simultaneously exposing the muddled thinking of those who would lead us down the blind alleys of neo-liberalism, Marxism, anarchism, or 'consumer democracy'.
Ironically for a fully paid-up member of the so-called 'Anti-Globalization Movement, one of Monbiot's central arguments is that there is, paradoxically, a need for more rather than less globalization - in the sense of greater connectivity between people beyond national frontiers as opposed to the unrepresentative and undemocratic 'internationalism', which at present merely masquerades as globalization.
Though Monbiot has been, and will continue to be, criticized for his lack of realism, such shortsighted reactions only serve to underline how vital his horizon-expanding views are to defining the early 21st-century zeitgeist. This book's central aim is clearly to inspire its readers to act, a goal in which it will undoubtedly succeed.
To quote the author's opening broadside: "Everything has been globalised except our consent. Democracy alone has been confined to the nation state. It stands at the national border, suitcase in hand, without a passport." Indeed, releasing democracy from its current shackles must surely be the foremost challenge of our times - fortunately, this book may well provide the key!
You want serious proposals for change? Read this........2004-08-16
Give George Monbiot a great deal of credit. What this work offers is some very thorough and thoughtful criticism of the current systems of internationalism and globalization, a sharp critique of the dominant counter logics of Marxism, Anarchism and other central positions of the Global Justice Movement(while giving them credit where due, as he does throughout) and it moves beyond to offer solid proposals for a world parliament, a refined UN and an updated version of Keynes' "Clearing House" concept which was spurned in the Bretton Woods 'debates'. In combination, these three bodies are supposed to replace the international governing bodies currently in place, instill greater democracy and promote sustainable living. It does sound very idealistic, right? Read the book. Monbiot is extremely well researched and is entirely forthcoming in admitting the hugeness of the tasks at hand, but is equally compelling in demonstrating that such a huge plan needs to be undertaken, and soon. Monbiot's work is realistic, without faltering into the trap of 'realism' and it's self-fulfilling pessimism.
Consider this work to be one of the major first steps, a serious and worthy proposal for further debate.
A Vital Look At Changing The World.......2004-07-30
George Monbiot is a veteran activist who has expressed his strongly held views on a diverse range of topics such as Globalization, American Hegemony and Environmentalism through his column in the Guardian, a British newspaper. He has long held a reputation as an idealist - a person who sincerely believes that through united action, each and every citizen can change things - and this is a thread that runs very strongly through his book.
Monbiot goes straight for the jugular in this book, directly addressing the most important areas and suggesting ways in which they ought to be reformed. Some of the areas he tackles includes the reform of International Relations through a reform of the UN and its security council. Another large area he tackles is that of the current international financial system and the problems of the IMF and WTO and third world debt, something that he proposes to resolve by creating an international clearing union.
I will not delve too deeply into an analysis of his proposals here, but I think that many people will have a similar reaction to one that I had. I personally tend to be very realistic about what can be achieved and Monbiot's proposals struck me as being hopelessly impractical in many circumstances. Whilst agreeing with him that what he proposes might very well be the best thing to do, I see no way in being able to change the status quo so easily. In that, Monbiot has failed in his overall objective which he states in the last chapter - that of convincing people like me to take up the challenge and believe that radical change is possible through 'people power' alone. That said, it is precisely this goal - that of this book being a rallying cry, and his endeavour to get people to believe, that perhaps helps to stand apart from the whole plethora of literature on Globalization, and makes it so valuable.
This book clearly examines some of the key issues facing the world today and provides a powerful vision for changing things. Whether you agree with Monbiot or not, whether you think his views are implementable or not, it is perhaps still vital that you read it, in order to gain a clearer grasp of the problems that are facing us.
Book Description
This challenging work develops a radical theory of the new world order to argue that as the globalization of power intensifies, so too do globalized forms of resistance. Stephen Gill explains how the dialectic of power and resistance involves issues of governance, economy, and culture. This struggle is reflected in the questions of American supremacy, the power of capital, market civilization, and surveillance power. Thus new forms of political agency and collective action are emerging to challenge dominant powers.
Customer Reviews:
Important Pieces of the Puzzle.......2007-03-03
I agree with those that suggest that the author goes over the top sometimes, but I will also be quite explicit in saying that I think Alex Jones is a very important part of the patriotic truth movement, and all that he does is in my view at least 80% vital to improving public intelligence in the public interest.
This book plays out a theme that relates the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma with 9-11, and I read through it at the same time that I was watching the DVD "Painful Questions" which actually had news clips about additional unexploded bombs being found in the Federal Building after the fact.
I am increasingly frustrated as I read so many of these books, each with vital tid-bits, many of which I can see correlating with one another, but yet no one anywhere has cut the spines off all these great books, digitized them, and created a visual diagram that makes sense of all this.
One thing I am certain of: the White House and Larry Silverstein are both hiding information from the public, and one day we will have proof of the degree to which elements of our own government allowed 9-11 to happen and went the extra step of helping to murder thousands of Americans solely and exclusively to manipulate a mandate for combining a police state at home with a unilateral ;militarism-terrorism abroad.
Not supported by facts or logic........2006-08-05
It is a sad sign of the times that so many people have apparently swallowed Alex Jones's ramblings and disconnected assertions hook, line and sinker.
Listen.......2006-07-11
This may not be the total truth and there is no book that can explain the total truth about 9/11. But i'll bet you Alex Jones comes closer to exposing the government involvement in 9/11 than the corporate media. What iam trying to say is Jones is more credible than the media which is twisted to what your supposed to believe. And what your supposed to believe is not true. The US government was involved in 9/11 and used it to create a never ending war, justify taking away our liberties so they can become more powerful and make us scared so we let them take our liberties away. If you cant see that by now you never will. Spread the word, we must be heard.
a good read.......2006-06-08
no matter how many times you've watched 9-11 road to tyranny you still pick up some new things. Same with his book, which even tho it covers a lot of the 9-11 stuff, still has things which just make you angry.
The proof is in the pudding. The globalists openly talk about what they do and want to do.
Don't let them do it to you. Arm yourself with knowledge and with....just do it. Resist tyranny
Decent expose of Oklahoma and both WTC attacks.......2006-05-09
Alex Jones wowed me with his first 9-11 documentary THE ROAD TO TYRANNY that was made in 2002. It woke me up to the New World Order and confirmed my doubts that I had since day one. How could those buildings come down so fast anyway with the limited amount of jet fuel? How can different types of damage cause two uniform collapses that are so fast they defy the laws of gravity? These questions were not even touched by scientists until almost recently. Since Alex Jones' video/book came out only in 2002, it simply asks the rhetorical questions about how could they come down so fast and what about WTC 7 that wasn't even hit by a plane and had only small fires? He also quotes Lou Cachioli, a firefighter who told PEOPLE magazine he heard bombs in the buildings and a demolition expert friend of his who said on the day it happened that it was the most beautiful demolition he'd ever seen.
Jones hits on the main bullet points about 9-11 quickly and has paranthetical references to the relevant news articles. He talks about drills that simulated the actual 9-11 events before and during 9-11, the phony anthrax attack coming at a critial time - the patriot act renewal, government obstruction of terror investigation, cancelled flights by top Pentagon brass including Ashcroft before 9-11, insider trading, prior knowledge, CIA meeting with Bin Laden, the Bush-Bin Laden business connection, warnings from other nations and the David Schippers interview who talks about people refusing to take vital information on purpose and other things. Since 2002, more information has come out but the content here on 9-11 (one 50 page chapter) raises enough questions and doubts and points out too many "coincidences."
Before the 9-11 chapter, he spent a couple of chapters talking about the use of problem-reaction-solution throughout history. Of course he touches in Nero burning Rome, The USS Maine, The Lusitania, Hitler's Reichstag fire*, Pearl Harbour and Northwoods. These documented facts are kept down to a paragraph to probably save room but also demonstrate that government sponsored terrorism is nothing new; therefore we should not believe, "Oh the government would never do that."
*(Some modern day national socialists claim that the insane communist fellow in the thirties actually did set fire to the Reichstag and the Nazis were innocent and surprised (David Irving). However some say the Nazis probably let it happen. Paul Joseph Watson in his book Order Out of Chaos claims that Hitler's storm troopers used an underground passage that connected Goering's cellar with that of the Reichstag whereby they scattered gas to feed the flames when the lone communist nut who broke in set fire to his shirt.)*
After Alex Jones finishes with his 9-11 chapter, he moves on to how the citizens' liberties are being targeted by the government and how police forces are being trained to see citizens as their enemy and to act contrary to the constitution (a woman being brought to trial for exercising her fourth amendment rights after being stopped at a random check point, FBI terrorist manual targeting patriots, FEMA training whereby Christians and the founding fathers are branded as terrorists - a convenient way to get them to attack people who oppose the NWO). Alex Jones talks about random check points and the Delta Force taking over cities and running drills to take away guns and put people into detention camps. He also talks about one psy-op in particular where a false news story was put out by the government about a deadly virus outbreaks in one city. People believed the lies and went to the hospital afraid. "It's all part of conditioning the population."
Alex also quickly, but a bit superficially, touches on how children are being indoctrinated into living with big government and a cashless society through newscasts and even children's cartoons. He also talks about people being told that microchips are a good idea because they are for their protection against terrorism (has an Andy Rooney quotation saying chips are good for America). Alex also talks about how the military runs psy-ops in schools by running using mock terror drills and frightening children, training them to think a police state is normal. Alex says in his book at one of these drills a kid was shot in the face and nothing happened. I would have liked a source for that in his book and in his film THE ROAD TO TYRANNY.
Near the end, he has a quick spiel on the UN plan to control private property, poisoning our foods with flouride and aspartame, global warming as a phony scare tactic to grab land, and tainted vaccines that are basically word for word from his film. While these are common knowledge, Alex should have provided sources and could have spent a little more time on them instead of simply repeating verbatim what he said in his flim TRTT (or one could make the argument regaring the UN desire for land grabbing, 'hey, that's what his 1997 film DESTROYED BY DESGIN is for). A lot of times he says, "it is documented" or "it is a known fact." While true, he should still give more sources in some places - he could have given links or sources to check out that further elucidate the vaccine, flouride and aspartame scams.
Alex even says in the conclusion that this book is pretty much verbatim is 9-11 film THE ROAD TO TYRANNY but that it is meant to get this information to a wider audience, including the deaf. Alex Jones tends to hit important points in just a few sentences and give a source before moving on the next point quickly. While it does save room, a little more expansion on certain issues would improve the book. This is where Paul Joseph Watson's book comes in. His book is longer, has more detail on many of the same issues Alex touches on and fills in the gaps that Alex Jones' book creates. If you want top level documentation and a little more detailed explanation of certain things including historical backgrounds of government sponsored terrorism like MI5 infiltrating the IRA (Jones doesn't deal with this), Watson is the man. Watson seems to want to incorporate 9-11 into a wider paragidm whereas Jones wants to focus mainly on 9-11 and then give a small taste of the past and get it over with so we can begin our political activism or something. Don't get me wrong. Jones' film/book here is good and makes many good points, but Watson elucidates the issues a bit better. I got both books from the website oneheartbooks. This is a place that people NEED to go to incase you think you are too far away from Texas (Jones' residence) to get this book successfully in the mail.
P.S. If you use google correctly, Watson's and Jones' books are available from nwowatcher dot com in abridged pdf's.
P.P.S. Here is a table of contents for Jones' book - something that was lacking but should not have been.
Introduction - 5
I.The House of World Government - 15
II.Terror In History - 23
III.September 11, 2001 - 56
IV.The Bill of Rights-A Terrorist Manual - 105
V.Conclusion - 172
Appendix A:World Bankers Feed Off of Crumbling Economies - 175
Appendix B:Infowars Exclusive: Bohemian Grove - 191
Appendix C:Know Your Enemy-The Communist Manifesto - 207
Appendix D:Know Your Heritage-The Bill of Rights - 210
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Taking an innovative, postcolonial, feminist perspective on transformations in the Philippine nation in the context of globalization, Fantasy-Production provides a theoretical framework for understanding the nationalist and postcolonial capitalist logics shaping the actions of the Philippines as a nation-state. Tadiar probes the consequences of dominant Philippine imaginations by examining a broad range of phenomena which characterize the contemporary Philippine nation, including the mass migration overseas of domestic workers, the 'prostitution economy', urban restructuring, the popular revolt toppling the Marcos dictatorship, as well as various works of art, poetry, historiography, and film. This will be one of the first books available widely in English that provides a sustained theoretical engagement with the cultural dimensions of contemporary socio-political and economic developments in the Philippines.
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Two years after tens of thousands of demonstrators shut down the WTO meetings in Seattle, here's an audio introduction to the New World Order & its discontents. The double CD covers changing politics, militarism & policing; environmental issues, frankenfood & genetic engineering; digital capitalism & the fairy-tale economic boom and the leading alternatives to and struggles against a system which puts profits over people, unregulated growth over sustainability and money over morals. Featuring Noam Chomsky, A. Sivanandan (When Memory Dies, Communities of Resistance), The Biotic Baking Brigade, Vandana Shiva (Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest), The Acme Collective of the Black Block, Christian Parenti (Lockdown America), Kristin Dawkins (Gene Wars), Robin Hahnel (Panic Rules), Winona LaDuke (All Our Relations), Michael Parenti (America Beseiged), Dan Schiller (Digital Capitalism), and Howard Zinn.
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FEMINISM, HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOW HETEROSEXUALITY WORKS -- Feminism, our official gender ideology, masquerades as a movement for women's rights. In reality, feminism is a cruel hoax, telling women their natural biological instincts are "socially constructed" to oppress them. Feminism is elite social engineering designed to neuter both sexes. It makes women less fit for marriage and motherhood, and men unable to lead and sacrifice for family. As a result, both sexes suffer from arrested development. The Rockefellers and Rothschilds created feminism to poison male-female relations (divide and conquer.) Their objective is totalitarian world government. Why? These bankers create money out of nothing and think they are God. "Cruel Hoax" shows the connection between feminism, Communism and 9-11. It examines male-female relations and how we can take back our heterosexuality.
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Truer Words Have Not Been Spoken.......2007-10-09
This book literally, with accurate description, describes the overall problem that is affecting western society today: the destruction of positive male-female relations along with the mass acceptence of "alternative" sexuality which is truly just an inversion of natural male-female dynamics. If only this book was more available on a mass scale. If only one could walk into a bookstore and see it on the front row shelves. Then there would be hope. But, that would be bad for the elite powers that be, so it will never happen. So, everyone who understands this book should recommend it to EVERYONE they know. Spread the word! The truth will set you free!
Interesting, enjoyable and valuable.......2007-10-08
A great book and a very interesting read. I had trouble putting this one down. Henry exposes feminism for the stupidity that it is and provides the basics of the healthy heterosexual relationship. If your confused about relationships, getting a raw deal from the opposite sex or just plain sick of the BS this is the book for you. I saw someone write "Henry is like the dad I never had". In this book is valuable advice on how a healthy relationship works.
A liberating read.......2007-10-05
I started reading Makow after 9/11. He explained how that attack and feminism were part of a larger assault on us. In 2001, I was in disbelief. It took me a few years to see that I was a feminist and didn't even know it. Cruel Hoax is simply "transformative." It will allow others to experience rapidly the "about face" that took me six years. And it will relieve you of a lot of needless guilt in the process.
A Serious Book for Serious People.......2007-09-28
I finished Cruel Hoax this afternoon. I enjoyed it very much.
I can say without reservation that I can put Henry Makow in the Pantheon with other courageous people I know. To qualify for a place of honour, someone has to look for the truth and honestly report what he finds -- especially if doing so has a personal cost. Some other people in the Pantheon are: Alfred Lilienthal and his assistant Suzanne Nicole, Norman Finkelstein, Jennifer Loewenstein, Ran HaCohen, Mearsheimer and Walt, and Noam Chomsky. Henry Makow is in good company. This club is growing. So watch out.
Makow's main thesis is that we human beings are under attack on all fronts. His case is well made. "Feminism" has been a brilliant method to neuter and demoralize both men and women, destroy the family and introduce a bacillus into the body politic which has wreaked havoc and which may be fatal.
Henry Makow's overview of the disasters of the 20th Century as orchestrated by the super rich -- the Illuminati -- makes sense: EVERYBODY is a victim in this tragedy which keeps unfolding day after day as the new millennium develops. Serious people need to take a serious look.
It's so sick it's hilarious!.......2007-09-26
I'm anti-feminist. So I stumbled on this book. My God. My G-O-D. This man is bona fide insane. Just do a few web searches. Feminism may have fallen from grace, but this man literally believes the world is run by satanists, etc. His site is "savethemales.ca" ...and it looks like he hasn't failed to support any conspiracy theory thrown his way. Communist take-over plots? Check. Freemasons decide the presidency? Check. Elite Jews control the economy? Check. It's f&&&ing hilarious! And sad.
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