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Friday, January 16, 2004

I eat, drink, live, sleep, dream of less soccer, sweatshops & station restructuring ... But, greed almost always trumps ideology.


McWorld
What could be more global than soccer? The world’s leading professional players and owners pay no mind to national borders, with major teams banking revenues in every currency available on the foreign exchange and billions of fans cheering for their champions in too many languages to count. But in many ways, the beautiful game reveals much more about globalization’s limits than its possibilities.
· Foreign Policy magazines are exploring the absurdity of Football
· Not Sparing the Sweatshop Rod
· Australia: Waterfall disaster [ via Back Pages]