Globalization

running Goverments for their own profit.

So next time you see a large oil Tanker on a beach with oil leaking everywhere,and it is discovered the ship is owned by a Brass Plate company in one part of the world, registered in another that has no marine infrastructure or expertise and manned by unqualified, untrained cheap labour, you can blame the poor men or the ship or stop and think about whether globalisation played its part.

After all would you board an aircraft owned by a globalised company which was unaccountable and operated in the cheapest most deregulated country possible?

That will be the legacy of globalisation as it has been in my industry.

Dave Pegg, UK

A controversy about "globalisation" is an obvious waste of time. You might as well argue about whether civilisation should be permitted to proceed or not. Those who indulge in the debate do so as an idle pastime, or perhaps suffer from mental deficiencies - for example, a lack of intelligence. I'm writing this as an idle pastime, how about you?

Dan, Prairie Home, USA

Globalisation is a process which has been happening for quite a long time, and there is no end to it. As a process it should have ideology. The ideology of globalisation is to exploit "legally" the natural resources, capital and manpower of the developing countries.

Samuel Thayapa Sebastian, Castellon, Spain

There seem to me to be two sorts of protesters:

(1) Those who want any excuse for a riot. The G8 summit merely provides that excuse. They couldnÐ'Ò't give a tuppeny damn about the poor. If they did, they would be going to the Congo, or Bolivia, or wherever, to help, instead of carrying out actions that they know are futile.

(2) The hypocrites: those who like to wear their 'holier than thou' hearts on their sleeves, by complaining about globalisation, while living with the comfortable feeling that it will continue to exist and support them. They are easily recognisable, being those who chart special trains, use mobile phones, and eat in McDonalds.

I believe that most of the world views nearly all of them with considerable despondency, not to say contempt.

James, Salamanca, Spain

Globalisation is the handmaid of capitalist, multinational corporations. Thus, by definition, it is antithetical to the interest and needs of "the wretched of the earth."

The inherent irrationality of capitalism predicated on greed and acquisitiveness, the profit motive, can only sustain gross inequality.

As Eugene V Debs once remarked: "While there is a lower class, I am in it." Globalisation be damned!

Aluta continua.

Dr Alvin Wyman Walker, Harlem, New York, US

Globalisation means interdependence, but unfortunately developing countries are forced to depend on developed countries and the latter use it as an opportunity to exploit the former.

If globalisation can help reduce poverty, free people from fatal diseases, give voice to the voiceless, and the less privileged ones have access to vaccination and global wealth then globalisation is good

Albert P'Rayan, Kigali, Rwanda (Indian)

The world economy needs more humanism. It's too simplistic to see in each action only cash flow and profits.

What are we searching for ? Wellbeing! Living a long and good life with our friends and family, in a larger view, with other people.

Being richer, make more profit, is not ever in accordance with this project. That's why I think that's globalisation should be not only done in the ecomic way, but also in a social way.

President Chirac says on 07/20/2001. "If 150,000 people are coming to Genova to demonstrate, there is a problem".

The problem is that people want more humanism in global politics. You can't let thousands of Africans die from Aids because they're poor... That means that someday you could die cause you're not making enough money.

Stephan, Freyming, France

This is not about free trade or anything similar, it is about bowing to the demands of a spoilt Texan who has no respect for the habitants of this planet and only wants to strike a few good weapon-selling deals.

Dear Mr Bush (and other members of the G8 movement), you have to realise that in the "land of the free", people think through their heads and not through their pockets. To us, globalisation means one united and equal world. To you, it's just a chic expression of slavery.

Doros, UK (originally Greece)

International corporations are getting that powerful that they are dictating politics

Indra, Ghent, Belgium

It's Internationalism that is needed; the acceptance and acknowledgement that all countries are equal and due respect.