Companies reserve the right to produce, ship and distribute their goods globally. Many produce in cheap labor countries like China, ship the goods around the globe to sell it high in countries like the United States or the European Union. It is natural to them because the process saves them lots of ...

National Review - By Mark Steyn - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn ...

Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola - Mar. 05 (Special Report) - Singapore is an epicenter of what analysts call a new flow of reverse migration away from hard-hit, globalized economies, including Dubai and Britain, that were once beacons for foreign labor. Economists from Credit Suisse predict an e...

Economic nationalism is back and that is not a good sign for working people. “Buy American� or “Buy French� or “Buy [add your country here]� campaigns are often presented as a way to protect workers and undo the damage done to workers by 30 years of corporate-dominated globalization.&quo...

ROCK AND A HARD PLACE David Brooks potentially hits a chord for a lot of moderates with this piece titled "A Moderate Manifesto", starting with this introduction: "You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain mode...

ECHOES OF HISTORY Came across this fascinating piece by Evan Osnos in the Economist this weekend, titled "Long After We Left"*: "I didn’t expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they’ve sanded away all but the outcr...

U.S. News & World Report - By Mary Kate Cary - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - What made his rant so riveting was that he was saying what everyone else seemed to be thinking but not saying: "What about the rest of us—the ones who work hard and play by the rules?" It's the elephant in the room that everyone's ...

On Bondadagur, or Husband's Day, the menfolk of Iceland are spoiled by their wives and girlfriends, who serve them with traditional delicacies such as ram's testicles and sheep's head jelly, a recipe for which is handily included in the latest online edition of Iceland Review, alongside the latest b...

RUNNING IN PLACE That's probably on the minds of many Californians, as they the state legislature passed a critical budget full of new tax increases in the nation's largest state.  As the Wall Street Journal reports: "California's legislature approved a plan Thursday to close a $42 billion budget g...

[This article originally appeared in The Nation, available here. ] The recently concluded World Social Forum is a good gauge for assessing the state of the world's alternative social, economic and political movements. Organized in 2001 as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum, the annual me...