Corporate Globalization: David Korten versus the Chretiens of the world

Nipawin - Friday, July 13, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis

one
global
market
The Anti-Globalization movement is protesting the present world wide governmental directions to develop one global market where goods, services and people can move freely across any country while copyrights and business secrets remain protected and entrenched in the few hands of the big transnational corporations.

social
disturbances
Now, you will hear from the conventional corporate controlled media, that the Anti-Globalization protesters are a bunch of people coming from any walk of life and whose main interest is to cause social disturbances. Corporate journalist Marina Jiménez bunches all the protesters as belonging to diverse anti-social movements and says

holiday
schedules

"It is the 'Summer of Resistance' for anti-globalization activists. Protesters can fit their riots into their holiday schedules."

Ostry
Sylvia Ostry, a scholar at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, says contemptuously and ironically that Anti-Globalization is the business of

diverse
coalitions

"dissent.com... One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy."

Daniels
Dr. Anthony Daniels writes in the National Post

unscrupulous manipulators

"The anti-globalists are attached to a worldview in which only oligarchs can display undesirable qualities, and in which the common man is by definition good and admirable. To preserve this worldview intact, they have to invent a cabal of unscrupulous manipulators to hate and protest violently against. This is supply-side resentment: They hate the suppliers, not the consumers."

human rights casualties

Prime Minister Jean Chretien, after defending democracy at the Quebec summit at a price of $135-million and human rights casualties, vowed yesterday he will not allow violent anti-globalization protesters to "trash" a summit of industrialized world leaders when Canada plays host next July.

Seattle

Our elitist leadership is so purposely demented, they don't want to realize yet they are the main cause of violence in this world. David Korten, a prominent social activist, has dedicated his book "When Corporations Rule the World" to the courageous youth who put their lives on the line in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999 and to his life partner Dr. Frances Korten. In this book, Korten synthesizes the catastrophic consequences of Globalization, including poverty, social disintegration, and environmental destruction, and says

social
stress

"evidence of the resulting social stress is everywhere: in rising rates of crime, drug abuse, divorce, teenage suicide, and domestic violence... Violent crime is increasing at alarming rates all around the world."

Canada
Day
Violence has therefore become an endemic consequence of Globalization. So, we have violence living with us day after day, there is violence when social activists protest the Globalization degenerative excesses, there is violence when our patriots celebrate Canada Day, and there is violence when innocent people are killed by the police here in Saskatchewan. I have a question for our Chretiens of the world, whom do you dedicate your Globalization's works to?

----------------References:

Our summer of 'dissent.com' The business of protest has become so organized, anti-globalization activists can peruse a Web site to plan their summit-hopping. Critics wonder whether some people just get a rush out of tossing rocks at police, Marina Jiménez, National Post, July 11, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010711/615513.html

It's bad taste that makes the mob mad. Don't blame Wall Street or a secret cabal for the ghastliness of global culture, Anthony Daniels, National Post, June 23, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010623/599742.html

Chretien to move G8 to thwart protesters. 'There will be no town trashed' in Canada, PM says, Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief, National Post, July 12, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010712/616477.html

When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten, 2nd Edition 2001, Cowboys in a Spaceship, page 30 http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm

This Is A Thursday Morning, by Timothy Shire, July 12, 2001


Nipawin - Friday, July 13, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis
one global market	The Anti-Globalization movement is protesting the present world wide governmental directions to develop one global market where goods, services and people can move freely across any country while copyrights and business secrets remain protected and entrenched in the few hands of the big transnational corporations.

social disturbances	Now, you will hear from the conventional corporate controlled media, that the Anti-Globalization protesters are a bunch of people coming from any walk of life and whose main interest is to cause social disturbances. Corporate journalist Marina Jiménez bunches all the protesters as belonging to diverse anti-social movements and says
holiday schedules	"It is the 'Summer of Resistance' for anti-globalization activists. Protesters can fit their riots into their holiday schedules."
Ostry	Sylvia Ostry, a scholar at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, says contemptuously and ironically that Anti-Globalization is the business of
diverse coalitions	"dissent.com... One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy."
Daniels	Dr. Anthony Daniels writes in the National Post
unscrupulous manipulators	"The anti-globalists are attached to a worldview in which only oligarchs can display undesirable qualities, and in which the common man is by definition good and admirable. To preserve this worldview intact, they have to invent a cabal of unscrupulous manipulators to hate and protest violently against. This is supply-side resentment: They hate the suppliers, not the consumers."
human rights casualties	Prime Minister Jean Chretien, after defending democracy at the Quebec summit at a price of $135-million and human rights casualties, vowed yesterday he will not allow violent anti-globalization protesters to "trash" a summit of industrialized world leaders when Canada plays host next July.
Seattle	Our elitist leadership is so purposely demented, they don't want to realize yet they are the main cause of violence in this world. David Korten, a prominent social activist, has dedicated his book "When Corporations Rule the World" to the courageous youth who put their lives on the line in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999 and to his life partner Dr. Frances Korten. In this book, Korten synthesizes the catastrophic consequences of Globalization, including poverty, social disintegration, and environmental destruction, and says
social stress	"evidence of the resulting social stress is everywhere: in rising rates of crime, drug abuse, divorce, teenage suicide, and domestic violence... Violent crime is increasing at alarming rates all around the world."

Canada Day	Violence has therefore become an endemic consequence of Globalization. So, we have violence living with us day after day, there is violence when social activists protest the Globalization degenerative excesses, there is violence when our patriots celebrate Canada Day, and there is violence when innocent people are killed by the police here in Saskatchewan. I have a question for our Chretiens of the world, whom do you dedicate your Globalization's works to?

----------------References:

	Our summer of 'dissent.com' The business of protest has become so organized, anti-globalization activists can peruse a Web site to plan their summit-hopping. Critics wonder whether some people just get a rush out of tossing rocks at police, Marina Jiménez, National Post, July 11, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010711/615513.html

	It's bad taste that makes the mob mad. Don't blame Wall Street or a secret cabal for the ghastliness of global culture, Anthony Daniels, National Post, June 23, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010623/599742.html

	Chretien to move G8 to thwart protesters. 'There will be no town trashed' in Canada, PM says, Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief, National Post, July 12, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010712/616477.html

	When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten, 2nd Edition 2001, Cowboys in a Spaceship, page 30 http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm

	This Is A Thursday Morning, by Timothy Shire, July 12, 2001