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• - Anti-Free Trade site which explores the relationship between free trade and lost profit.
  
• - Trying to stifle free trade would also stifle innovation and progress, contends article by John V. Nye in Reason magazine.
  
• - Jim Hightower commentary contending that globalization represents "a global corporate coup against We the People to seize power so that they might reign as sovereigns."
  
• - By Serge Halmi.Article from Le Monde Diplomatique (1998) contending the worldwide financial crisis was result of basic flaw of free-market beliefs.
  
• - Michael Hodges shows his concern for children who will inherit an economy that cannot balance its international accounts compared to prior generations?
  
• - Columns on how trade deficits are damaging the American economy.
  
• - Shows how international trade is not much more important now than it was a century ago, and documents the "new global economy" media fad.
  
• - Articles by freelance economics writer, former special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore and Economist journalist, currently writing a book about globalisation.
  
• - Current news and commentary from an anti-globalization perspective. Focus on corporate globalization.
  
• - International trade changes the way weapons are made and sold around the world. And globalization is linked to new efforts to put weapons in space. [About.com]
  
• - Essay which focuses on economic impact on third world workers along with visitor feedback. Somewhat pro-Globalization.
  
• - Rodrik is Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard and provides online many papers on international trade and Globalization issues of a technical and non-technical nature.
  
• - Commentary on how we go about questioning globalization and the organization of society.
  
• - Discussion and links about Globalization, focusing on Information Technology issues, as businesses move onto the world stage.
  
• - Article by Lance Compa emphasizes importance of actively pressing for citizen involvement in trade debates and negotiations to balance influence of corporate elites.