"William Harold Greider" is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics.

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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

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The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it knows how to do best. It is unwilling to rethink its future, unable to let go of the past. Like the shark, it must keep feeding, only now it is feeding on itself.

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Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

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Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.

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The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."

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Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

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