Globalization>Multimedia and Resources

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.

26.10.2004 Read Noam Chomsky’s “Media, Propaganda and the System” (Mediji, Propaganda i Sistem) at the web-site of the Elektronicke Knjige online publisher.

08.04.2004 The spread and the negative impact of corruption on enterprises in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia is decreasing, states the latest report by the WorldBank.

15.01.2004 A few people could be better informed on the issues surrounding the phenomenon of globalization that Joseph E. Stieglitz, the author of "Globalization and Its Discontents", Nobel Prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, currently teaching at Columbia University's Economics Department, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Business School.

15.01.2004 In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. The global companies claim to support diversity but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they are both divisions of Viacom?