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Carbon-Copying Americans - Thomas Friedman

2008-11-10T16:55:23Z

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Tom Friedman discusses the increasing trend of developing nations to aspire to U.S. levels of economic consumption, and warns that this trend may be extremely detrimental to the global environment.

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In this talk, New York Time columnist and author Tom Friedman exposes the irrationality of U.S. policies that promote consumption of vast quantities of oil.

Friedman stresses that the United States must lead efforts to develop energy alternatives that would 1) free us from our dependence on petro-dictatorships and 2) help preserve the earth, oceans, and biodiversity.

The program concludes with a Q and A between Friedman and Editor of The New Republic, Frank Foer - Sixth and I Synagogue

Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Friedman was bureau chief for The Times in Beirut and Jerusalem before writing, From Beirut to Jerusalem, which won the National Book Award for non-fiction. His book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree won the 2000 Overseas Press Club award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. His latest work, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, won the inaugural Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. He has a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University and a Master of Philosophy degree in Modern Middle East studies from Oxford.

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One on One - Naomi Klein - Sept 26 - Part 1

2008-10-31T15:31:00Z

Internationally acclaimed writer and activist Naomi Klein talks to Riz Khan.

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People & Power - Slow food - 8 Jul 08

2008-10-27T15:31:01Z

People & Power looks at the work of Carlo Petrini, an Italian journalist and food activist, whose organisation, Slow Food, is considered the culinary wing of the anti-globalisation movement.

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America's "Brain-Dead" Politics - Fareed Zakaria

2008-10-27T21:31:04Z

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Author Fareed Zakaria criticizes American political culture for ignoring global issues, and for focusing on short-term political benefits at the expense of long-term prosperity.

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The rise of other nations need not mean a decline of the U.S., says Zakaria. He foresees a future where the U.S. no longer dominates the global economy, geopolitics and culture, and it needn't be seen as a negative development, he believes; our nation needs to learn to understand other nations and find a way to thrive in this rapidly shifting dynamic.

Join us as Newsweek International's editor shares his insights on how our nation can thrive in the coming millennium - The Commonwealth Club of California

Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International and author of The Post American World and The Future of Freedom.

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Witness - Forty Acres and a Dream - Part 2

2008-10-14T11:24:23Z

Photographer John Ficara captures the plight of black farmers in the United States.

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Witness - Forty Acres and a Dream - Part 1

2008-10-14T11:24:24Z

Photographer John Ficara captures the plight of black farmers in the United States.

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Riz Khan - Globalisation - 21 May 08 - Part 2

2008-10-25T21:30:26Z

We look at globalisation and ask whether or not the system can be changed.

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Riz Khan - Globalisation - 21 May 08 - Part 1

2008-10-25T21:30:26Z

We look at globalisation and ask whether or not the system can be changed.

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Making a killing from the food crisis

2008-10-23T03:32:18Z

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Devlin Kuyek: "Right now Cargill is making approximately $471 000 an hour in profits."

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Peter Mandelson - In Defense of Free Trade

2008-10-14T15:31:12Z

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E.U. Commissioner for Trade Peter Mandelson gives a defense of free trade practices and globalization.

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Europe and the U.S.: Confronting Global Challenges with Peter Mandelson.

In a speech at the Carnegie Endowment, EU Commissioner of Trade Peter Mandelson argued that the European Union and the United States must use their collective economic weight to underwrite the openness of the global economy as its adjusts to the rise of new economic powers and greater global flows of investment. Mandelson said that the U.S. and the EU should use their own openness to "underwrite a strong multilateral order based on cooperation and economic openness" - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Peter Mandelson was born in Britain in 1953.

He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford. As a young man he lived in Tanzania for a year, an experience which formed life-long impressions of Africa and the challenges of fighting poverty. A life-long pro-European, he led the British delegation to the first ever meeting of the European Communities Youth Forum in Strasbourg in 1979.

After working as an economist at the Trades Union Congress and as a current affairs TV producer, Peter Mandelson was later appointed Labour Party Director for Campaigns and Communications in 1985. Later he was Tony Blair’s Campaign Manager in the May 1997 election that brought Labour to power in Britain.

In 1992 he was elected as member of parliament for the Northern English constituency of Hartlepool. He served until 2004 upon his appointment to the European Commission.

Peter Mandelson is honorary Chair of Policy Network, a European and international think tank whose journal and conferences promote the exchange and debate of centre-left policy ideas and European social democratic thinking. He was UK chairman of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, which brings together leading academics, politicians and business people. He has traveled widely and has lectured throughout Europe, in Asia and the United States.

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Joseph Stiglitz - Sharing the Benefits of Globalization

2008-10-23T21:30:06Z

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that developed nations have so far largely mishandled the economic benefits of globalization.

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz ("Globalization and Its Discontents") talks about his new concept of economics, "The Economics of Information," and his latest book, "Making Globalization Work" - Asia Society

Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. He is currently a finance and economics professor at Columbia University. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties.

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Jerry Mander - Globalization and Indigenous Cultures

2008-10-15T03:31:30Z

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Author and social critic Jerry Mander discusses how the cultural concepts of indigenous peoples endure despite globalization, and speculates on the benefits of adapting these ideas to modern life.

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In this spirited book, Jerry Mander partners with the celebrated indigenous leader Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to gather powerful firsthand reports on a momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's indigenous peoples. With many of the planet's remaining natural resources on indigenous lands, traditional practices of biodiversity preservation have, ironically, made these lands targets for global corporations seeking the last forests, genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals to feed their unsustainable growth. Corporate invaders often employ military force, as well as harsh pressures from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. But native peoples refuse to be victims; their stories of resistance and growing success are gathered here by twenty-five writers to describe the impacts.

Jerry Mander is founder of the International Forum on Globalization. His books include "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" - Cody's Books

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Antoine van Agtmael - "The Emerging Markets Century"

2008-10-28T11:40:13Z

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Author and former World Bank executive Antoine van Agtmael forecasts what he calls the "Emerging Markets Century," in which the economies of the U.S. and Western Europe are eventually eclipsed by those of former "third world" countries such as China.

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Antoine van Agtmael talks about "The Emerging Markets Century: How A New Breed of World-Class Companies is Overtaking the World."

Offering capsule summaries of 25 emerging-market companies, Antoine van Agtmael dispels the belief that only established corporations can compete globally. An experienced investor at the World Bank Group, Van Agtmael shares his insights and revelations about today's marketplace.

Antoine van Agtmael has served as Division Chief in the World Bank's Treasury operations and as Deputy Director of the Capital Markets Department at the International Finance Corporation.

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Antonia Juhasz - A History of Opposition to the World Bank

2008-10-15T09:29:30Z

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Anti-globalization author and activist Antonia Juhasz discusses the history of opposition to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

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Antonia Juhasz is a visiting scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, which explores the Bush administration's use of the military to advance a corporate globalization agenda in Iraq and throughout the Middle East.

Juhasz previously served as the project director of the International Forum on Globalization and as a legislative assistant to Congressmen John Conyers Jr. and Elijah Cummings.

An award-winning writer, her work appears regularly on the Op Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times as well as numerous author newspapers and publications. She is contributing author to Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible (Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

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