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Is it so hard to imagine a world in which all people wear Tommy Hilfiger clothes, Nike shoes, walk around sipping Coca Cola and munching on their Big Macs? Obviously, it does not. The only thing that we can change in that rather depressing picture is the brand names we mentioned. Maybe instead of Tommy Hilfiger, we will all wear Gap, or whatever the brand of "super-cool", extra casual attire will win.

By the same standard, in such a world we will all rise to the sounds of the same synthetic music, will read the same books, and will glorify the neo-liberal philosophy of free-market economy.

You must have recognized the symptoms, and once you recognize the symptoms, it is much easier to give a diagnosis. The diagnosis in this case would be – globalization.

But what is globalization? Read more.

23.09.2008 Over 15,000 people from Malmo, Sweden and all over the world gathered at the central event of the European Social Forum 2008, the protest walk and mass demonstrations, that took place on Saturday in Malmo. Some groups appeared on the designated starting point early in the morning, in spite of the fact that official start was scheduled for 13:00 hours.

22.09.2008 This year`s European Social Forum 2008, in Malmo, Sweden, offered a wide variety of activities that acted as a prelude to the main event, the big parade and demonstrations on Saturday, September 20, the biggest and most numerous in ESF history.

22.02.2008 Last Saturday, February 16, the BORNA – Blogging Committee for Referendum on NATO was created in Zagreb. The Committee gathers individual bloggers active on blog.hr and bloger.hr portals, and on the group portal pollitika.com.

24.02.2004 A summary of events and issues at the Fourth World Social Forum (WDF) in Mumbai, India held from January 16-21, 2004.