A definition of 'globalization'
Globalization in general
In its most innocuous sense, 'globalization' refers to the processes, long underway, by which cultures have intermingled, resulting in such phenomena as the sale of sushi in California, and fans of rock music in Japan.
Globalization and class warfare
In its less innocuous sense, globlization refers to one contemporary manifestation of class warfare, in which the heads of large, transnational corporations seek to conduct their affairs without meaningful societal or legal oversight.
The origins of globalization in this sense may be traced to the 1930s and the Rockefeller family social and political club known as the "Council on Foreign Relations", as well as to the later Bretton Woods meeting of July, 1944.
Later, in May of 1954, a clandestine group of industrialists and political and media allies known as 'Bilderberg' met to set a global agenda. And in 1973, the Trilateral Commission, yet another Rockefeller project, drew Japan into the transnational fold.
As the dire consequences of globalization became ever more apparent, especially the destruction of unions and the loss of better-paying jobs, this CEO hobby began to encounter greater and greater resistance.
One consequence was advocacy for the militarization of police forces everywhere, as agitated for by the Manhattan Insitute, a propaganda organ for the Council on Foreign Relations (located in the same Manhattan neighborhood as the primary residence of David Rockefeller, and the CFR headquarters). MI was founded by a former head of the CIA.
Hand in hand with this went the development of technologies of global spying, such as those of the NSA revealed by Ed Snowden. And advancing in parallel with surveillance were techniques of social control modeled on the practices of the Stasi. These were manifested in the United States in programs such as MKULTRA and COINTELPRO, known more popularly in their current form as the "Targeted Individual" program.
For more, see "The Case Against the Global Economy and For a Turn Toward the Local", edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Godsmith.
(See also: class warfare, democracy, populism, plutocracy, oligarchy,and the links below.)
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