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World Trade Disorganization - Those who protest against globalization have their hearts in the right place. It's just not clear that many know what they're talking about, Bloomberg News, December 18, 2005 Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are - Children in developing countries will be much better off with a hot meal and an education than with Westerners' self-righteous indignation, The New York Times, April 3, 2004 The Great Hollowing-out Myth - Outsourcing to other countries has become a hot political issue in America. Contrary to what John Edwards, John Kerry and George Bush seem to think, it actually sustains American jobs, The Economist, Feb 19, 2004 Corporate Psychos Blend in Well - Psychopaths are attracted to today's business climate, Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2004 How can so much misinformation be believed by so many people? Get ready to have your beliefs shaken, The Quaker Economist, December 2002 Marx After Communism - As a system of government, communism is dead or dying. As a system of ideas, its future looks secure, The Economist, December 19, 2002 A Pathological Mutation in Capitalism - Reform to American capitalism is useless when the system itself has failed. Enron was a scandal but also the product of a pathological mutation in capitalism known as "owners capitalism," International Herald Tribune/Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2002 Ideological Economic Literature - When ideology takes precedence over objectivity, The Classic Liberal Quaker, March 4, 2002 The Exclusion of the Poor - What we need is consumer complaints, insisting that our companies buy the production of the poor in less developed countries, The Classic Liberal Quaker, January 15, 2002 The New Face of the Left - Why the protesters in Quebec City bring on nostalgia for old-fashioned radicals, Newsweek, April 30, 2001 Winners and Losers -The global distribution of income is becoming ever more unequal. That should be a matter of greater concern than it is, argues Robert Wade; followed by a review of Wade's conclusions, The Economist, April 26, 2001 Potential Nests of Anti-Globality? - The danger is that restless nations in Asia and Europe forming regional and bilateral deals could roil the world political scene, March 2001 The Oracle Of Dow -Interpreter of a venerable theory sees markets at a pivotal point - possibly to a bear market, BARRONS, June 12, 2000A Better Understanding is Needed of the WTO’s Abilities and Limitations - Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland, Friends Journal, May 2000 What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis - demonstrators say the IMF's economic "remedies" often make things worse--and they have a point, THE NEW REPUBLIC, April 17, 2000, Joseph Stiglitz Saving the Lost World - Mar. 31, 2000, New York Times, Paul Krugman: Pursuing Happiness - Mar. 29, 2000, New York Times, Why 24-Hour Banking? - An HTML PowerPoint presentation on why electronic commerce is forcing banks around the world to change their retails marketing and services. WTO and What Went Wrong - The Irony and Paradox of Globalization, American Chamber of Commerce in Korea, The Journal, Jan.-Feb. 2000, John Barry Kotch, What Happened to the Asian Century? - The New York Times, Dec. 29, 1999 Enemies of the WTO - Bogus arguments against the World Trade Organization, by Paul Krugman, Slate, Nov. 23, 1999 Look Homeward, Asia - The Far East Economic Review's 6/10/99 report on Asia's post- IMF crisis learned lessons. The Hangover Theory--Are recessions the inevitable payback for good times? by Paul Krugman, posted Dec. 3, 1998, Slate The Confidence Game - How Washington worsened Asia's crash by Paul Krugman, The New Republic, October 1998, Asian Forecast: Toward a New Asian Bloc - a Global Intelligence Update Red Alert, September 14, 1998, Saving Asia: It's Time to Get Radical by MIT's Paul Krugman from Fortune, Going For Broke -Far East Economic Review June 11, 1998 editorial on what's broken in Asia The Real Asian Miracle; The World's Biggest Going-Out-of-Business Sale - Controversial report from the May 31, 1998 New York Times A Business Traveler's Korea Notes - a summary of my impressions when visiting Seoul in mid January 1998
An E-Mail Boast to Friends Puts Executive Out of Work - A young click-happy financial executive is wishing that he had never touched his computer's left mouse button, New York Times, May 22, 2001 Is the B2B Fad Over? - Despite the overall technology meltdown there are technology industries and companies deserving investment consideration, 123Jump, January 9, 2001 Too Few Pennies From Heaven - Some people see the slump in dot.com share prices as marking the death of e-commerce; in fact markets are just valuing e-commerce firms more sensibly, The Economist, July 1, 2000 Death of the Salesmen - E-commerce is changing the role of the traditional sales person, The Economist, April 22, 2000 The Lessons of DoCoMo - Japanese mobile communications' i-modest success, The Economist, Mar. 11, 2000 The Etymology of "Y2K"- Dec. 15, 1999, SLATE "Credit Cards Aren't Banking - They're Information" - Capitol One's marketing revolution, May 1999 edition of Fast Company, John Dvorak's Smart Card Alert - from Inside Track column of April 6, 1999 PC Magazine, High-tech Future is on the Cards - Update on smart cards from AT Kearney from Jan. 1999 Asian Business, On-Line Transations: Who Gets Paid - An Above the Crowd newsletter reports how the key to Internet transactions is demand creation. E-Money (That's What I Want) - A HOTWIRED Internet magazine article about the opportunities, dangers and choices that may affect our civilization with the advent of electronic commerce. Esther Dyson on Intellectual Value - An analysis of how services are assuming yet greater values and profits over products |
For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats - Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries, New York Times, March 11, 2006 'March of the Penguins' through biblical glasses - A few questions about Intelligent Design, Washington Post Writers Group, October 13, 2005 The God Racket, From DeMille to DeLay - US government has signed onto a full-scale jihad, and faced with McCarthyism in God's name, most Democratic leaders have gone into hiding and are staying silent, New York Times, March 27, 2005 Watergate, War, and The Four-Way Test by John W. Dean III - Had Rotary's 4-Way Test had been used by the Nixon White House, history would have been significantly different, The Rotarian magazine, January 2004 Shalom: Much More Than Just "Peace" - A profound rationale of why there is no peace without justice, Friends Journal, November 2003 The Search Goes On - Korea's Quakers, JoongAng Ilbo, May 10, 2002 Marching in Gandhi's Footsteps - Rather than being victims of history, David Hartsough believes we should make it - he's raising a 'peace force' to do just that, Bangkok Post, March 23, 2002 Twin Towers – A Spiritual Reincarnation - By Rabbi Laibl Wolf, Australia You Are a Force for Peace - by Christine Easwaran Interview with God - Wonderful multimedia presentation similar in message to Conversations with God Before the Big Bang, There Was . . . What? - What was God doing before he created the world? New York Times, May 22, 2001 American Spreads the Word on Ham Sok-hon - Interview of this site's webmaster, Korea Times, April 23, 2001 Gnosticism, Ancient and Modern - a review of its being understood and misunderstood by Robert A. Segal, Christian Century, Nov. 1995 Practical Advice for Today's Good Samaritan - Some wisdom on how to help others safely. Why Ham Sok-Hon Now? - An essay on the current relevance of Korea's 20th century spiritual leader for democracy by Tom Coyner "A Visit to the Stone People Lodge"- by Jim DeNomie, Bad River Chippewa, Friends Journal, June 2000 Chush - A Lesson on God's Perfection Why the future doesn't need us - by Bill Joy, WIRED, April 2000, From Internet Scientist, a Preview of Extinction, Washington Post, March 12, 2000, The West's Fear of Islam is No Excuse for Racism - The Independent, November 7, 1999 Science vs. the Bible: Debate Moves to the Cosmos - The New York Times, 10/10/99 Dorothy, It's Really Oz - A pro-creationist decision in Kansas is more than a blow against Darwin - by Stephen Jay Gould, TIME.com, 8/23/99 Mystics and Revolutionaries - from The Wounded Heart by Henri Nouwen Ham Sok Hon's Understanding of Taoism and Quakerism - by Sung Soo Kim, University of Essex St. Patrick's Breastplate Prayer Faith, a Personal God and Mysticism - an essay by Tom Coyner, March 28, 1999 Hidden Encyclical Could Have Changed World -recognizing Pope Pius XI's courageous stand against anti- Semitism, March 8, 1999 LA Times Balancing Contemplation and Action - from Thomas Merton's The Seven Story Mountain The Last Seven Shakers in the World - Endangered species - from The Economist Living the Truth, Prof. Larry Ingle's essay on the Quakers in Nazi Germany War is the Most Extreme Luxury - Interview with Korean philosopher Ham Sok-Hon Who Are the Quakers? - Tom's illustrated, hypertext essay on the Quakers' role in society, Kairos - former USWeb CEO Joe Firmage describes his Cosmos perspective and offers a book download, The Search for a No-Frills Jesus - a review of the Q Document which represents the original Gospel, from The Atlantic Monthly, A God for Both Sexes - Many people still think of God as a male super-being. Karen Armstrong, once a Catholic nun, and author of A History of God, explains why He isn't, A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain - An article from WIRED magazine about an obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness - 50 years ago. An Interview with Sinead O'Connor - Transcript from the radical pop singer's interview on British television about Ireland, religion and the prices she has paid for her integrity. A Forensic Psychologist's View of the VA Tech Massacre - Interview of Dr. Michael Welner, Hugh Hewitt Show, April 2007 Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club - Has environmentalism become a pop religion? September 15, 2003 SARS - Introductory presentation on Asia's mysterious and deadly pneumonia Roger Boisvert, Top Japanese Internet Pioneer Slain in Robbery Gun Control and Crime - New research shoots holes in the idea that guns in the hands of private citizens will help to deter criminals, The Economist, Jan. 11, 2001 The Rebirth of the Blues - Blues begat rock and pop, thereby losing its soul. Can blues win it back? The Economist, May 4, 1996 Doing Well by Doing Good - Can business be ethical? The Economist, April 22, 2000 Is Our Drug Policy Failing? Don't Ask - Mar. 29, 2000, LA Times, The Thinking Man's Guide to Working with Women - Playboy, by Denis Boyles, February 1992 Gates is No Edison - A June 1998 Washington Post analysis, Values in Tension - Harvard Business Review's practical advice for cross cultural conflict in the workplace Ban on Human Cloning: Moral Obligation or High Tech Racism? - Microsoft's Technology Officer offers a challenge, SLATE, May 13, 1997 Help Save the Life of Kim Yong Hwa - a personal appeal, When Computers Can't Finger You - Reduction of the individual to a set of numerical indices
Tom Coyner's Resume - Advertisement for myself
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The Cartoons: Actually, We Know What This Is About - The Muslim uproar over those Danish cartoons isn't as alien to American culture as we like to think, The New York Times, February 17, 2006 The Rock Star's Burden - Misguided aid for Africa, The New York Times, December 15, 2005 10 Reasons Terror Meets Silence from Muslims - And why the West is wrong to believe its only fight is with a "perversion' of Islam, a latter-day Fascist ideology, New York Times, October 26, 2005 Stagger On, Weary Titan - The US is reeling, like imperial Britain after the Boer war -- but don't gloat, The Guardian (UK), August 25, 2005 Liberals seek solace in the 'moral values' myth - This theory certainly flatters liberals, and it is certainly wrong, The New York Times, November 8, 2004 Feel the hate, fear and loathing in New York - There was plenty of hatred in Manhattan, but it was inside, not outside, Madison Square Garden, The New York Times, Saturday, September 4, 2004 Think Again: Al Qaeda - A correction of the main misconceptions in the current global crisis, The Economist, May/June 2004 online These Are Their Ends - Three interconnected reasons for the Bush administration's shifting rationales for war were oil, Israel, and military transformation, TomPaine.com, August 5, 2004 A Time to Weep - By Theodore Sorensen, Commencement Address, New School University, NY, May 21, 2004 The Patriot's Act - What's more American than asking questions? By ny Michael Moore, LA Times, July 4, 2004 Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands - Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says. The Guardian, June 19, 2004 A Fiction Shattered by America's Aggression - America's friends once listened to the American story because Washington said it, and they respected Washington. Now they don't; International Herald Tribune, November 1, 2003 Uncensored Gore - The take-no-prisoners social critic skewers Bush, Ashcroft and the whole damn lot of us for letting despots rule, LA Weekly, Nov. 14~20, 2003 Text of the Rockford College graduation speech by Chris Hedges, New York Times war correspondent, May 20, 2003 Bush's Weapons of Mass Deceit by Paul Krugman - A democracy's decisions, right or wrong, are supposed to take place with the informed consent of its citizens. That didn't happen this time New York Times, April 30, 2003 The Reason Why by George McGovern on the march of war folly, The Nation, April 21, 2003 Bush Goes AWOL - Bush has inspired new terrorist threats to the United States while he purposely starves those localities and institutions of terrorist protection, The Nation, May 5, 2003 The Chaos Theory - Once Saddam is gone, Iraqis may turn on each other. And that could be just the start of a Middle East disintegration, Newsweek Web, March 13, 2003 The Burden - Is America slipping from being a republic to becoming a super power empire? New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003 We Stand Passively Mute - US Senator Robert Byrd's Senate floor speech questioning the current twist in US foreign policy, Feb. 12, 2003 Can Saddam Be Contained? History Says Yes - by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, November 12, 2002 A War Crime or an Act of War? - Former CIA analyst raises doubts about the justification of another war with Iraq, The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2003 How much would a war with Iraq cost? - An evaluation in economic and other human costs, The Quaker Economist, Jan 10, 2003 The Fifty-first State? Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. Are we ready for this long-term relationship?- James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly, November 2002 Ten Years After, Writers Get Word of the PC Wars - A minor victory over political correct bowdlerizations gives one pause, June 14, 2002, Wall St. Journal Resisting Bush's War - by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, first member of the United States Congress to openly repudiate President Bush's war rationale, AlterNet, February 25, 2002 How the World Sees the U.S. and Sept. 11 - World opinion leaders give strong support in principle to the U.S.-led war on terrorism, but they oppose attacks on countries beyond Afghanistan and say the campaign is yet another example of what they view as America's troubling tendency to act unilaterally, International Herald Tribune, December 20, 2001 The Big Idea - Thanks to technological evolution, it has long been the fate of human beings to have their fates increasingly shared. And now, we are at a watershed in the growth of this interdependence, for better and for worse, SLATE.com, November 19, 2001 Thoughts in the Presence of Fear - by Wendell Berry in response to the atrocities on September 11, Rachel's Environment & Health News, September 27, 2001 Watching The Warheads - The risks to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the War on Terrorism, The New Yorker, November 5, 2001issue Interview with Chomsky - The Afghan Trap, Media Education Foundation Why
Do They Hate Us? - In Muslim world, a
sense of humiliation, The Christian Science Monitor Opening Remarks to the U N General Assembly Special Session on Terrorism - by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Monday, October 1st, 2001 Letter from an Afghanistan Street-smart Military Professional - A letter written by a very bright and Afghanistan street-smart West Point grad to his classmates Limbs of No Body - The world's indifference to the Afghan tragedy and the reasons for its mortality and emigration, The Iranian, June 20, 2001 Osama bin Laden: The truth about the world's most wanted man - The truth about the prime suspect for the world's worst terrorist atrocity is shrouded in myth and misinformation, The Independent, UK, September 16, 2001 Open letter from an Afghan -American - by Tamim Ansary, US Faces Islamic Radical Network - Terrorist attacks demonstrate clearly the existence of a multi-national, global network of Islamic radicals and their sympathizers. The US is gearing up for war that may span half the globe, Stratfor.com, September 16, 2001 The Blame Game - Many Americans see themselves locked in conflict with the forces of Islamic extremism. But many Arabs blame America for generating that extremism, The Economist Global Agenda, Sep 14th 2001 The Nuclear August of 1945 - An account and reconsideration of Hiroshima, The Wall St. Journal, Aug. 6, 2001 The Hostile Panda - The US spy plane drama shows China wants to be a superpower. It should be stopped, The Guardian, April 12, 2001 Letters from Palestine -Your Urgent Attention is Request, March 15, 2001 Corporate Democracy; Civic Disrespect - In the year 2000, the US left behind constitutional republicanism, and turned to a different form of government, corporate democracy, The American Prospect Online, Dec. 21, 2000 Hebron: The Women and Children Weren't Shooting - CPTnet, Jan. 14, 2001 Let the Dalai Lama in - South Korea and the Tibetan leader, Far Eastern Economic Review, Nov. 16, 2000 They Are The World - Thanks to U2's Bono and other celebrities, governments of creditor nations have come up with a meaningful plan to write off some debts of poverty-stricken nations, The New Yorker, October 9, 2000,Angry and Effective - Demonstrations against global capitalism are more than mere nuisances: they are getting their way, The Economist, Sept. 23, 2000 Globalization Tops Agenda for World Leaders at U.N. Summit - New York Times, September 3, 2000 The Next President: The Unspoken Issue The Impact of Globalization - Stratfor.com's Weekly Global Intelligence Update, August 14, 2000 The Party of Lincoln - How the GOP lost the black vote, SLATE.com, August 10, 2000 Ten Years of Sanctions Have Failed to Oust Saddam - But they're killing Iraq, The Independent, July 31, 2000 Vietnam, 25 Years On...Vietnam was a defeat. Was it therefore a mistake? And if it was, can America avoid repeating it? The Economist, April 29, 2000 Fighting Dirty - Governments co-op the media during war, The Guardian, Mar. 20, 2000 Where's the Evidence of Genocide of Kosovar Albanians? - LA Times, 10/29/99 with accompanying debate about this article Some Ethical Aspects on NATO's Intervention in Kosvo - Dr. Jan Oberg Director, head of the TFF Conflict-Mitigation team to the Balkans and Georgia, 7/15/99 Albright has Some Explaining to Do - Newsday editorial on US in Yugoslavia, July 6, 1999 "Dialogue on Support of NATO in Yugoslavia" - David and Tom debate it all on June 24, 1999 "NATO's Victory" - A post victory review of NATO in Yugoslavia by STRATFOR, Inc, June 21, 1999 "It's the Russians, Stupid!" - Analysis of NATO's mishandling of Bosnia-related diplomacy by STRATFOR, Inc, June 14, 1999 General Powell on Bosnia - from his autobiography, My American Journey On Opposite Sides, But Not Opponents - May 7, 1999, Washington Post, e-mail correspondence between a US professor and his Serbian student Hitler's invasion is a lesson for NATO - May 8, 1999, Baltimore Sun Peacenik Way Is Definitely Out of Style in US - May 2, 1999 LA Times American Quakers Call for NATO to Stop Bombing of Yugoslavia Letter to Tony Blair from Britain's Quakers on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia Bombing the Baby with the Bathwater - a Serb peace activist's view Stopping Nuclear Blackmail - from March 8, 1999 US News & World Report North Korea From the Inside Out - A June 1998 Washington Post article, Kim Dae Jung's Election - A mildly cynical yet insightful perspective on South Korea's presidential elections The Korean War Revisited - An illustrated, thought-provoking review of North Korea's past and present policy-making foundations Coping with North Korea - a political analysis Pulling Back the Curtain - Asia Meets the Information Standard - from the Far East Economic Review |
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