About Unsustainable.org

Launched in the spring of 2001 as the first website devoted to providing economic analysis on the worsening East-West trade imbalances,  Unsustainable.org focuses not only on the industrial and employment implications of bad trade policies but the implications for American power and sovereignty. The site makes common cause with allies across the political spectrum -- from labor unions and environmental groups to industry associations and organizations concerned with national security.

It was founded by Eamonn Fingleton, a financial journalist and author who, having watched American trade policy from a vantage point in Tokyo since 1985, had become convinced that the American public was being greatly misled about the realities of globalization. The site's launch was funded by a Midwest-based benefactor who in his youth fought in the Pacific 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? It 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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Fingleton can be contacted at:
Aoyama NK Building 2F 
Minami Aoyama 4-3-24 
Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0062 
Japan
Telephone: (81 3) 5770 5087 or 5476 8727 
Fax: (81 3) 5770 5088 
E-mail: efingleton@gmail.com

He tries to acknowledge all  e-mail messages from new correspondents. Because e-mail has sometimes proved unreliable in the past,  however, he suggests that snail mail may be more appropriate for some types of correspondence, particularly where sensitive issues might be involved or where a previous e-mail message has gone unacknowledged.