Today is "Bash Globalization!" day at Loaded Mouth

I've printed the Green Party's report on the WTO earlier today, so let's continue the topic. Today's Providence Sunday Journal has a great anti-globalization editoral which, unfortunately, they have yet to publish on their website. It's a must read, it says all the things that you are not supposed to hear about globalization through the mainstream media, like:

"The trouble with globalization as it is currently spreading is that there are numerous widely divergent nations making and selling stuff in the world market, and many have labor, environmental and other standards way below those of Western nations and Japan, if they exist (or are enforced) at all. And in many of these Third World places, the (corrupt) politicians and the enterpreneurs are one and the same. The effect is to lower inflation-adjusted wages for almot everyone -- except the honchos of certain kinds of large businesses and the investiment types who act as intermedisries for international financial deals.

Why don't we hear more about this accelerating vicious circle? Because it's those who benefit from the current system control national politics and most of the news media. [emphasis mine] ... These Democratic and GOP politicians have little or no contact wih the American proles suffering the ravages of globalization. They make photo-op campaign visits to factories, but their social life (and, of course, their fund-raising) is spent entirely with fellow rich folks."

I want to high-five this guy. More from the editorial:

"No economy is going to be sound that does not include a large, healthy manufacturing sector. You have to make things; the blue smoke and mirrors of 'services' isn't enough. A great American hope, of course, has been that an increasingly sophisticated high-value-added services sector would more than offset our dwindling manufacturing.

Dream on. The services sector, too, is coming under assault as U.S. firms 'outsource' such things as call centers, software and so on."

I think projo.com will have a link to this tomorrow, I will post it then so you can read the full editorial. It really is a must read.