The Arms Trade is Big Business — Global Issues

The Arms Trade is Big Business — Global Issues: "Global Arms Sales By Supplier Nations
The 5 UN Security Council permanent members are generally the largest arms dealers:"

GLOBALIZATION: KEY CONCEPTS

GLOBALIZATION: KEY CONCEPTS: "Globalization is a process that has been going on for the past 5000 years, but it has significantly accelerated since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.1 Elements of globalization include transborder capital, labor, management, news, images, and data flows.2The main engines of globalization are the transnational corporations (TNCs), transnational media organizations (TMCs), intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and alternative government organizations (AGOs). From a humanist perspective, globalization entails both positive and negative consequences: it is both narrowing and widening the income gaps among and within nations, intensifying and diminishing political domination, and homogenizing and pluralizing cultural identities.3"

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this fall, for the first time in U.S. history, women have surpassed men and now make up more than 50 percent of the nation's workforce. In 1967, by comparison, they accounted for just one-third of all workers.

Woe, Superman?

Woe, Superman?: "Susan Greenfield, Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford, has just published a book, ID: the Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century, on the challenges technology poses to human identity. Pharmacological enhancements alarm Professor Greenfield more than neurological interventions which, being more elaborate procedures, are more considered. She stresses the role of whole brain interaction: 'A better brain is not simply one armed with a better memory. You shouldn't just be trying to be a better computer. There is a danger that enhancement will become a competitive endeavour. But it is not a linear arms race. We should be encouraging people to become better individuals all round.'"