The city of Pittsburgh has called up <a
href=”http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5gJKXV5HsfOBZsVB57W4xWVD7SNHg”>4,000 highly-trained federal
police officers to support local security forces in the days leading up
to the G20 summit that begins on Wednesday. As <a
href=”http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/
20090921_globalization_goes_bankrupt/”>Chris Hedges writes at
Truthdig, “The draconian security measures put in place to silence
dissent in Pittsburgh are disproportionate to any actual security
concern.” The delegates will be protected by a National Guard combat
unit recently back from Iraq. The center of the city will be virtually
shut down and there are already reports of arrests and harassment of
activists. On the eve of the G20 summit and during the worst financial
crisis since the Great Depression what is the future of capitalism? And
does the left have an alternative?
Nation columnist and <a
href=”http://www.counterpunch.org/”>Counterpunch co-editor Alexander
Cockburn, <a
href=”http://www.qc-econ-bba.org/faculty_profile.ihtml?
user_Instructor_ID=102″>William Tabb, associate editor of the
Monthly Review and author of <a
href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158367036X?ie=UTF8&tag=
lauraflanders-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&
creativeASIN=158367036X”>The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the
Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century<img
src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=lauraflanders-20&l=as2&o
=1&a=158367036X” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″
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and <a
href=”http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=fellows_kagarlitsky”>
Boris Kagarlitsky, director of the Institute of Globalization and
Social Movements and the author of <a
href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074532682X?ie=UTF8&tag=
lauraflanders-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&
creativeASIN=074532682X”>Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World
System<img
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alternatives.
