Welcome to THE INTER-GLOBALIST where we approach the shifting landscape of globalization and explore the intersectionality of the global north and the global south, east-west collaborations, the space between indigeneity and labour mobility, semi-sovereign entities and new development sectors.
Decoding Falsehoods: our 21st century Chajusong. Hello, I’d like to thank Juyeon and the other organizers for having me speak on what I think are some very controversial and nuanced subjects regarding the Hong Kong protests and the Uyghur detainment in Xinjiang. When we spoke last week, we had a good conversation about mainstream media […]
How China’s BRI redraws the geopolitical map (Summit Magazine, 2017) Despite cautionary fears of China’s global ambitions, the rapidly industrializing communist republic’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) may be the single greatest development project in the history of the world. The BRI seeks to develop the necessary infrastructure to link China with other economic regions. […]
One of the slippery aspects about economics as a whole, is that for a discipline that holds as much power in human life as universal laws do for nature, economics is neither a science nor a philosophy. Mostly, it is a governing practice of human activity that is guided and moved as much by human […]
Rewriting Economic History From the perspective of a blogger/activist addressing the negative impact of globalization on people and ecological biodiversity, I recently considered organizing a campaigning group to explore one of the most fundamental and underutilized ways of addressing economic justice through National Accounting Systems. I’ve been occasionally writing about its historical and contemporary significance […]
(the original version was posted March 2, 2011 in StatehoodHawaii.org) This isn’t a doom and gloom scenario by any means, rather, it is a radical shaking up of the neoliberal financial system where we will have to let the giants fail. This system is impossible to sustain and undoubtedly the US will be struggling to […]