Cape Ann Forum

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Globalization

Globalization has been blamed for everything from melting polar ice caps to local government budget cuts. Henwood will ask some hard questions about this much-used word. Is globalization guilty as charged? How new is it really? Is globalization entirely bad? And just what do we mean by globalization, anyway?

Doug Henwood is a Yale-trained, self-described former conservative. He edits the Left Business Observer, hosts a radio show on WBAI (New York), writes for The Nation and is the author of After the New Economy (2003), Wall Street (1997), and The State of the USA Atlas (1994).

Covering the World

Most media cover the same horror stories day after day with only minimal variations, depending on bias. But where do these catastrophes come from, and why do they keep sneaking up on us? What should we know to help us avert them—or to simply enrich our lives without terrifying us?  read more »

Africa in the Post-9/11 World

With more Muslims than the Middle East—plus large oil reserves, shaky states, porous borders and a welter of cold war-era weapons—Africa can be ignored only at America’s peril. Yet U.S. policy there has been careless and erratic. This needs to change—for Africa’s sake and for ours, says veteran diplomat Walter Carrington.  read more »

Confronting Genocide in Darfur, Sudan

Since 2003, Darfur, Sudan, has been the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, as government-backed militias have killed tens of thousands of civilians and displaced more than a million people. Both Sen. Kerry and President Bush declared the slaughter a “genocide” last fall, but this prompted little action from the U.S. government — or anyone else. What’s the reality there today? And what can be done about it?  read more »

Globalization and Its Discontents