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Stephen Hill Linkography: Globalization

Next Steps For Social Democracy: An American Perspective
Article: 16 December 2009 - Social Europe Journal. This article was published as part of the "Building the Good Society" debate hosted by Social Europe Journal. In Hill's opinion, the predicament of social democracy strikes at the heart of several modern dilemmas that will be at the forefront of the twenty-first century. Given the many obstacles and challenges presented by globalisation, global warming and geopolitical shifts, he believes that social democrats have made remarkable gains and are providing a beacon to the rest of the world.

Steven Hill on Europe’s Promise
Video: Book talk: 21 January 2010 - held at the New America Foundation. Also posted with title: What the U.S. (Even California) Can Learn from Europe
The author discusses his new book and explains Europe's bold new vision. For a decade Hill travelled widely to understand this uniquely European way of life. He shatters myths and describes how Europe's leadership is rooted in different economic, social and cultural values. Hill points out that the European model has the greatest potential to nudge the world forward.

San Francisco Mayoral Race Mobilizes Opposition
to Globalization
Article: 2000 - Labornet viewpoints: Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement. San Francisco, a busy commercial and Internet center riding the crest of nearby Silicon Valley, is the poster city for the globalized economy. Local startups, IPOs and surging stock prices are the latest embodiment of the American Dream, dangling the bait before a wide-eyed generation. Interestingly enough, this electoral challenge came less than two weeks after thousands of protesters in Seattle delivered a shot across the bow of the WTO and its cruise ship, the USS Globalization.

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Steven Hill Linkography: Major Factors

Myth 10: Europe is Turning Into ‘Eurabia’ While its Own Population Is Dying Out
posted: March 16, 2010 | Economic Opportunity Institute. The facts are clear, Muslim immigration in Europe currently represents a mere 3% of Europe’s total population. This is hardly an Islamic tide. Hill argues that by raising the age of retirement, allowing a reasonable rate of immigration, increasing the number of women in the labor force, and continuing its long term productivity gains, Europe should be able to cope with demographic uncertainties and their impacts on its social systems.

Myth 5: Europe is a socialist nest of government interference and intervention.
Posted 14 March 2010 - Washington Policy Watch .
Europe is completely capitalist, not socialist, with more Fortune 500 companies and more small businesses than in the U.S. But Europe has figured out how to harness capitalism’s tremendous wealth-creating capacity so that its prosperity is broadly shared.

What Obama Can Learn from Old Europe
Posted: 28 January 2009 - Huffington Post. Also posted: 08 January 2009 at War Is A Crime.org with title: What Obama can learn from Europe .

In spite of the economic crisis, the European Union intends to make energy and climate change a “win-win situation. Additionally, they intend to implement several far reaching conservation steps and enact the world's most ambitious carbon-trading program. Thus, more green jobs will be created and investment in the low-carbon economy of the future can be promoted.

My Lunch at the European Commission: Why is Europe Losing the Public Relations Battle to China?
Article: 22 December 2010 – Social Europe.eu. The European Commission is the most important body that Americans – and far too many Europeans – have never heard of. As the executive branch of the European Union, it is on a peer level with President Barack Obama and his Cabinet, yet the public hardly knows it exists or what it does. Hill regards the EU as the greatest attempt by humans to address the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, including global economic development, security and climate change.

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Steven Hill Linkography: U.S. Slips

Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico: US Needs a National Energy Policy like Europe’s
Article: 17 May 2010 – Social Europe Journal. Every day that the massive black plume off the Louisiana coast sprays into the sea is a reminder of how much the United States has failed to transition to a modern energy regime. Given the stakes over global warming, Europe has emerged as ‘the indispensable nation’, while the United States, the largest per capita polluter in the world, continues to fiddle as the earth burns.

Hill Proposes European Economic Structure for U.S.
Article: 1 April 2011 By Alex Kessler. On March 30, Hill’s U.S. book tour took him to Georgia Tech to speak on behalf of the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) for the IMPACT Speaker Series. Hill’s arguments boil down to adopting social programs such as free education and healthcare to support families and workers; the less people spend on necessities, the more they can spend commercially, circulating money.

Germany Speaks Out
Article: 12 November 2010 – New York Times. Also published as: Merkel, Germany, Overthrow Obama, U.S., at G-20. Following America’s catalytic role in bringing the global economy to the brink of disaster, followed by Obama’s weakened political position after the Nov. 2 mid-term elections, the U.S. is now losing the global argument over what is the best development model for the 21st century. At the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul Germany spoke out. Let’s hope Obama and Geithner were listening because the world is no longer automatically following America’s lead.

America's Failed Model for the World

Article: September 16, 2009 - The Guardian. As Europeans watch the United States flailing about over something as basic as healthcare, they are reminded once again of the impotent US response following Hurricane Katrina. As one European put it...

The Myth of Europe's High Taxes
Article: 23 February 2010 – On the Commons. This myth is busted! The truth is, Hill points out, that when all the supports and services Europeans and Americans receive are listed on one side of a ledger and the amount of taxes and any additional out-of-pocket fees they pay are listed on the other, it turns out that Americans pay out as much as Europeans – but receive a lot less in return.

French Protesters: 'Where are you Americans?'
Blog: How's Europe Doing - posted: 23 Oct 2010 - The Washington Monthly. During a protest against proposed retirement age legislation in

France, Hill talks to some of the young protesters on the streets in Paris who wonder why young Americans, frustrated and angry over US government policies, are not out protesting like the French.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU On Top

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies

Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout. While Europe is far from immune to the economic decline and resource scarcity it faces along with the rest of the world, Hill maintains that the continent still leads the globe in building political infrastructures that foster a shared and sustainable prosperity. He heaps plenty of praise on the EU, but he also acknowledges that the world's largest economy knows it still has work to do.

Europe’s Promise – A Cover Interview
Book review: Posted 31 March 2010 - Rorotoko.

Hill's book provides a number of interesting facts on Europe's economic strengths
and dismisses many myths Americans tend have about Europe. First, Europe produces nearly a third of the world’s economy, that's almost as large as the U.S. and China combined. Second, Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than the U.S. and China together. Third, small businesses account for two thirds of the jobs created in Europe. Fourth, Europe is the largest trading partner with both the America and China. And last, Europe's annual growth rate was higher than the U.S. from 1998-2008.

Europe vs the US: Seven Reflections
Article: 26 January 2010 - cafebabel.com: The European Magazine. The EU has produced a ‘Eurosphere’ with some 2 billion people - one third of the world - linked by trade, aid and investment to the EU. So, if Europe isn’t the leader of the world now, who is? China? India? It will be decades - if ever - before these developing countries will achieve Europe or America’s prosperity level. In a make-or-break century beset by a worldwide economic crisis, global warming and geopolitical tensions, the European model has the potential to carry the world forward.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: EU United

Europe and its Revolution - Part 1

Posted in Italian: 30 November 2010 - By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 1/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.). (use Google Translate). There is no doubt that Europe can sometimes appear in disarray reeling from one apparent crisis to another. It is facing challenges that seem impossible… Yet in the end, it always gets the job done as is characteristic in a united Europe for the last 60 years.

Europe and its Revolution - Part 2
Posted in Italian: 13 December 2010 - Europe and its revolution By Francesca Cannino. (Italian original: L’Europa e la sua rivoluzione 2/2, 30 Novembre 2010 – Gli Euros, Par Francesca Cannino (trad.) .

The Greek Aftershock - Will it Make or Break Europe?
Article: 19 February 2010 – Social Europe Journal. The Germans and French are about to get a real shock of what ‘union’ means. They didn’t realize that the euro came with a hidden obligation for them to bail out the Greeks and perhaps others during tougher economic times. So far they have agreed to stand behind Greece in return for new restrictions on government spending, but this crisis is going to test their union.

Steven Hill re Europe’s Promise: Q&A
Interview aired: 30 May 2010 - A Terrence McNally Podcast. <

The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world. Americans are hearing a lot about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, and perhaps Spain, Portugal, and Italy, is threatening the Euro and the European Union. What's really going on? How did it happen? How bad is it? How will they deal with it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world and for the US in particular? These are the questions Hill takes on during this lengthy Q&A interview.

Despite the Crisis, Europe Is the Model for the World
Interview in Czech: 23 February 2011 - Lidove Noviny. Czech title : Evropa je i přes krizi pro svět vzorem – 23 února 2011, Lidove Noviny.(use Google Translate) In this exclusive Q&A interview with the prominent Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny, Hill is questioned primarily about his book, the economic policies of the EU, the Euro crisis, prospects for the future of an integrated Europe and more.

Media ‘Speculators’ Miss History Being Made
In Europe
Article: 19 October 2010 - Social Europe Journal. While the debt crisis has

been messy and noisy, it also has provided a badly needed wake-up call to Europe about a flaw at the heart of its union: namely, while it had a monetary union it lacked a fiscal union. At some point, this flaw had to be dealt with and the Greek situation provided that opportunity. That in turn has resulted in reforms providing sensible financial backstops, regulation and transparency.

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