Terrorism | Economic Problems Cause Terrorism

[In September 2002] in a New York Times column titled, “Globalization, Alive and Well” Thomas Friedman falsely claimed that the gifts of pluralism, diversity, democracy, which societies like India have evolved over millennia, are the result of currently practiced corporate globalization. Thus, he transforms into intrinsic perversions the violence and exclusions that result from imperialism and undemocratic, ruthless, irresponsible, economic globalization, trade liberalization, and resource appropriation. Offering a flawed and misplaced analysis on the roots of terrorism, he...

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