Published by: The Globalist, 28 September 2009

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8025

Introduction:

A revised early 21st century version of Marx’s The Communist Manifesto might very well begin with the words, “A specter is haunting the world — the specter of globalization.”

After all, we live in a world enthralled by the notion that the forces unleashed by modern technology condemn us to increasingly more intertwined and interdependent lives under powerful financial, political and environmental undercurrents largely beyond our individual and collective power to control.