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Article: Poor man's hero: controversial writer Johan Norberg champions globalization as the best hope for the developing world.
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- Reason
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- December 1, 2003
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IF THERE IS any moral certainty underpinning today's anti-globalization movement, it's that desperate actions from sometimes violent street demonstrations to public crop burnings to dressing up as giant sea turtles--are needed to protect the traditions, forests, and human rights of the Third World against the rapacious greed of the First. The anti-globo left has little doubt that anyone who favors international free trade, open markets, and the cultural mongrelization they foster must be a greedy corporate bastard hellbent on plundering the world's poor and chopping down the last tree left on the planet. On the right, if George W. Bush is any indication, a different sort ...