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Please note: This site is in the process of being rebuilt after a virus attack in the summer of 2005 wiped out the site's first four years of content.
Unsustainable.org was started as a non-partisan forum for discussing America's trade problems. It focuses particularly on the effects of misguided trade policies in undermining not only America's industrial and employment base but its sovereignty and its freedom of action on the world stage. The site makes common cause with allies across the political spectrum -- from labor unions and environmental groups to industry associations and organizations concerned with America's national security.
The forum was founded by Eamonn Fingleton, a financial journalist and author who, after fifteen years of watching the American trade debate from a vantage point in Tokyo, is convinced that the American public is being massively -- and disastrously -- misled about the realities of globalization. The site is funded by a Midwest-based benefactor who in his youth fought in the Pacific theater in World War II and later served in the U.S. military in Occupation-era Japan. In his subsequent business career, he came to know some of Japan's most famous business leaders.
Why the name Unsustainable.org? The name comes from the headline over Eamonn Fingleton's cover story on trade in the August 14, 2000, issue of The American Prospect.
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