"Philosophy has a very important role to play in the Age of
Globalization.. Carping about the need for social change, or
protesting publicly against certain policies is simply dismissed an
irrelevant and unproductive.. Utopian means that allk realities are
at their root imaginary.."

Tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last
year to protest a 60% increase in the price of tortillas. How on
earth did Mexicans, who live in the land where corn was
domesticated, become dependent on US imports in the first place?
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization held a summit in Rome in
June 2008 to discuss the global food crisis. Assistant Director
Alexander Miller speaks about the rising oil prices, the risk of
biofuels and how agriculture could be transformed to help tackle
climate change.

The global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in
world production. It is the result of accelerating demand. Amartya
Sen teaches economics and philosophy at Harvard and received the
Nobel Prize in economics in 1998. His latest book is "Identity and
Violence: The Illusion of Destiny."

"The storm that has hit the money markets in Asia and affected the
rest of the world is part of a wider danger. That is financial
globalization, which has become a law unto itself with its own
powers, embodied by institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank,
the OECD and the WTO. Together, they threaten the power base of
real states in the real world."

The Internet's current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users.

As oil prices hit one record high after another, and OPEC warns of $150 a barrel by the end of summer, economists are warning of global recession and inflation. But German commentators point out that high oil prices also have an upside.

How to unite progressives through the Backbone Campaign's Progressive Cabinet project and its puppet parade called Procession for the Future