global markets and corporations so comprehensively overpower individual nations that no politician or political party dares make the first move to solve global problems for fear of putting their own nation at a significant economic competitive disadvantage. Though legislators know that serious world problems such as global warming, monopolistic corporate power, poverty and environmental destruction all demand decisive action, they are loath to implement the policies needed to solve them. They legitimately fear that in today's liberalized global economy, investors, orporations and jobs would simply pick up and leave for more congenial destinations. However good their intentions, governments feel bound to conform to a straitjacket of market– and business-friendly policies. That's why, whoever we vote for in the present system, little, if anything, changes.
The Simultaneous Policy, globalising peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity.:Simpol-UK:On Del.icio.us: global_politics, multilateralism, globalisation, Tobin_tax, implementation, disinvestment, labour, co-operation
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