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The author contends that globalization encourages the means to wage war by protecting & promoting the military industries essential to make arms therefore promoting unrest, inequality, conflict, & war. The threat of military force is used to protect the investments of transnational corporations. National economic policies are pushed toward military spending as the world economic system promotes military economies over civilian economies. The author cites examples of this involving the World Trade Organization (WTO) & the General Agreement of Tariffs & Trade (GATT). As the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman put it: "the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.". 5 References. E. Sanchez

The government of Alberta, Canada, has provided public funding to eligible private schools since 1967. This policy has always been contested, and in this article, we explain how we applied concepts from argumentative discourse theory and its attendant methodology, argumentative discourse analysis (ADA), to trace the debate over the policy since 1990. Argumentative discourse theory posits that policymaking involves struggles for discursive dominance wherein actors try to convince others to view the policy issue in a particular way. Drawing on 158 media articles, interviews, and secondary sources, we show that although some of the actors in the dispute have changed – and changed sides – their arguments have remained fairly consistent. However, their arguments' meanings – and of the policy itself – have changed as the dominant discourse in the province shifted. Specifically, in response to the rise and predominance of neoliberalism in Alberta, supporters redefined the policy to fund private schools with public money as one that promoted choice and competition that would improve schooling. Opponents, on the other hand, recast the policy as part of a larger government effort to privatize public education. We demonstrate that argumentative discourse theory and ADA can be used to support the goals of critical policy analysis. ; El gobierno de Alberta, Canadá, ha asignado fondos públicos a escuelas privadas elegibles desde 1967. Esta política siempre ha sido cuestionada, y en este artículo explicamos cómo aplicamos conceptos de la teoría del discurso argumentativo y su metodología concomitante, el análisis del discurso argumentativo. (ADA), para rastrear el debate sobre la política desde 1990. La teoría del discurso argumentativo postula que la formulación de políticas implica luchas por el dominio discursivo en las que los actores intentan convencer a otros para que vean el tema de la política de una manera particular. Basándonos en 158 artículos de los medios, entrevistas y fuentes secundarias, mostramos que aunque ...