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As summarized by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Noam Chomsky]:

As summarized by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Noam Chomsky]:

"The dominant [[propaganda]] systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international [[economic]] [[integration]] that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of [[human beings]], become "anti-globalist." This is simply [[vulgar]] propaganda, like the term "anti-Soviet" used by the most disgusting commissars to refer to [[dissidents]]. It is not only vulgar, but idiotic. Take the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum World Social Forum] (WSF), called "anti-globalization" in the propaganda system – which happens to include the [[media]], the educated classes, etc., with rare [[exceptions]]. The WSF is a [[paradigm]] example of globalization. It is a gathering of huge numbers of people from all over the world, from just about every corner of life one can think of, apart from the extremely narrow highly privileged [[elites]] who meet at the competing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum World Economic Forum], and are called "pro-globalization" by the propaganda system."

<blockquote>"The dominant [[propaganda]] systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international [[economic]] [[integration]] that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of [[human beings]], become "anti-globalist." This is simply [[vulgar]] propaganda, like the term "anti-Soviet" used by the most disgusting commissars to refer to [[dissidents]]. It is not only vulgar, but idiotic. Take the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum World Social Forum] (WSF), called "anti-globalization" in the propaganda system – which happens to include the [[media]], the educated classes, etc., with rare [[exceptions]]. The WSF is a [[paradigm]] example of globalization. It is a gathering of huge numbers of people from all over the world, from just about every corner of life one can think of, apart from the extremely narrow highly privileged [[elites]] who meet at the competing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum World Economic Forum], and are called "pro-globalization" by the propaganda system."</blockquote>

Critiques of globalization generally stem from [[discussions]] surrounding the impact of such [[processes]] on the planet as well as the human costs. They challenge directly traditional metrics, such as GDP, and look to other measures, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient Gini coefficient]  or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index Happy Planet Index], and point to a "multitude of interconnected fatal consequences–social [[disintegration]], a breakdown of [[democracy]], more rapid and extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new diseases, increasing [[poverty]] and [[alienation]]" which they claim are the unintended consequences of globalization.

Critiques of globalization generally stem from [[discussions]] surrounding the impact of such [[processes]] on the planet as well as the human costs. They challenge directly traditional metrics, such as GDP, and look to other measures, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient Gini coefficient]  or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index Happy Planet Index], and point to a "multitude of interconnected fatal consequences–social [[disintegration]], a breakdown of [[democracy]], more rapid and extensive deterioration of the environment, the spread of new diseases, increasing [[poverty]] and [[alienation]]" which they claim are the unintended consequences of globalization.