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 This week's World Food Summit will once again avoid the real issues by John Vidal, 10 June 2002.We should all join the resistance against Disney by Andrew Gumbel, 24 July 2002. “I know I'm making no sense to my son. He's probably wondering why his Dad is such a mean old grouch.”Trashing free software – more neo-lib flim-flam by Toni Solo, 08 October 2003. “As Indian writer Vandana Shiva says, "Basmati, neem, pepper, bitter gourd, turmeric . . . every aspect of the innovation embodied in our indigenous food and medicinal systems is now being pirated and patented. The knowledge of the poor is being converted into the property of global corporations, creating a situation where the poor will have to pay for the seeds and medicines they have evolved and have used to meet their needs for nutrition and health care."”CAFTA thumbscrews – the nuts and bolts of "free trade" extortion by Toni Solo, 14 October 2003. The effects of the Central American Free Trade Agreement.Robert Zoellick and "Wise Blood" – the Hazel Motes approach to international trade by Toni Solo, 02 November 2003.Game playing by "free trade" rules – results in from Indonesia and Dominican Republic by Toni Solo, 01 December 2003."Poor people can't be engineers" – free market corruption, neo-liberal pretexts by Toni Solo, 22 February 2004."Colombia-US Free Trade Treaty – far more than trade" by Toni Solo with Emilio Sardi, 01 March 2004.The US in Haiti: How to Get Rich on 11 Cents an Hour by Eric Verhoogen, January 1996. “And the rosy rhetoric of U.S. intervention obscures a darker, more pernicious fact about the U.S. presence in Haiti: that many of the companies profiting from the abuse and exploitation of Haitian workers are among the largest and most successful U.S. corporations: Disney, Wal-Mart, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Sears, Hanes/Sara Lee and Kellwood, to name a few.”The Blair protege and outrider for India's ruinous free market experiment has been voted out by George Monbiot, 18 May 2004.The Tsunami and the Brandt report by Mohammed Mesbahi and Dr Angela Paine, 05 February 2005. “Third world debt today is $2.6 trillion. Between 1982 and 2003 the poor world has paid $5.4 trillion in interest. This means that the poor world has already paid back the amount it now owes more than twice.”Lobbying against America by Lou Dobbs, 11 August 2005. “'Corporate supremacist' lobbyists control Congress, passing corporate friendly laws at your expense.”
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 No Space No Choice No Job No LogoEconomic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century by J.W. Smith, 2005. “The impoverishment of the developing world is understandable once one learns how 'plunder by trade' locks the world into violence and war.” (An online book). The Guardian Special Report on Globalisation. Why cheap beans don't make cheap coffee
"World coffee prices are at their lowest level for 30 years, having fallen by 50% in three years. And yet, coffee prices remain high in shops and cafes. BBC News Online explains why." Food First “The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.” The Oakland Institute is a non-partisan think tank utilizing research, analysis and advocacy to promote and ensure public participation and fair debate on critical economic and social policy issues that affect peoples' lives.The Brandt Equation: 21st Century Blueprint for the New Global Economy. “"A new century nears, and with it the prospects of a new civilization. Could we not begin to lay the basis for that new community with reasonable relations among all people and nations, and to build a world in which sharing, justice, freedom and peace might prevail?" – Willy Brandt, 1983”STWR (Share The World's Resources) “is a non-politically affiliated network campaigning for justice and peace through the fair and equitable distribution of world resources. We believe the current world economic system perpetuates global poverty, denies basic human rights to many millions and damages all nations.”
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"GLOBALIZATION": the undermining of the nation state as a focus of economic organization; the reduction to commodity status of worldwide raw-goods suppliers; the monopolization of distribution channels by transnational trading companies; the reduction of health & quality standards to least-common-denominator levels; the most honest self-characterization of the NWO agenda.– Doublespeak and the New World Order by Richard Moore, 23 January 1996.
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Globalise Justice and banish Terrorism by S. A. Abidi, 29 February 2004.What is Neo-Liberalism? by Elizabeth Martinez and Arnoldo García, 26 February 2000. “"Neo-liberalism" is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.”The Global Economy Since 1800 by M. Shahid Alam, 26 July 2003. “It is about the system of global capitalism that took shape once the British economy went 'underground' and began to draw its energy and, increasingly, its raw materials from mineral resources.”A Letter to a Colleague by Dr. Gilo Muirragui, 03 August 2004. “We [the US] spend nearly $500 billion on the military, but money cannot be found for healthcare, education and other social services. Every demand for these purposes is usually ruled "unaffordable" by our political establishment. Why is killing human beings the priority for which we must all do without?”Bluebeard's Castle : disappearing the Right to Development by Toni Solo, 04 August 2004. The fate of the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development.Billions for Bankers – Debts for the People by Pastor Sheldon Emry, 03 July 2004.On the edge of lunacy by George Monbiot, 06 January 2004. “British foreign aid is now targeted at countries willing to sell off their assets to big business.”Behind New Europe's facade by Neil Clark, 10 February 2005. “Neo-liberalism has delivered unemployment and lower living standards for the majority in eastern Europe. But opposition is growing.”It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both by Robert Newman, 02 February 2006. “Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change.”Communism may be dead, but clearly not dead enough by Seumas Milne, 16 February 2006. “The battle over history reflects a determination to prove that no political alternative can challenge the new global capitalism.”Sinking Globalization by Niall Ferguson, March 2005. “Could globalization collapse? It may seem unlikely today. Yet despite many warnings, people were shocked the last time globalization crumbled, with the onslaught of World War I. Like today, that period was marked by imperial overstretch, great-power rivalry, unstable alliances, rogue regimes, and terrorist organizations. And the world is no better prepared for calamity now.”The Failure of Neoliberalism: Will Mexicans Ignore What Bolivians Learned? by Heather Williams, 30 June 2006.The Chinese Face of Neoliberalism by Peter Kwong, 07 October 2006.Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire by Greg Grandin, 17 November 2006.Globalization in Retreat by Walden Bello, 27 December 2006. “Fifteen years later, despite runaway shops and outsourcing, what passes for an international economy remains a collection of national economies. These economies are interdependent no doubt, but domestic factors still largely determine their dynamics. Globalization, in fact, has reached its high water mark and is receding.”Interview with Arab writer and activist Hisham Bustani from Senza Censura, 22 March 2007. “[Globalization] is the smartest work of deception in history: the people financing their own destruction, exploitation and transformation into consumerist slaves!!”Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes by Robert Jensen, 30 April 2007.Voracity by Ignacio Ramonet, November 2007. “Last year, in the United States, the main private equities firms invested 290 billion euros in repurchasing companies, and more than 220 billion euros during just the first semester of 2007, thus taking control of eight thousand companies […]. Already one American employee out of four – and close to one French employee out of twelve – works for these mastodons.”Capitalism is Good, the World is Flat by Brkic Sulejman, 27 December 2008.
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 Trade-related Issues from Global Issues. “This section attempts to highlight some of the misconceptions and unfairness in the current model for global trading, economics and the current form of overly corporate-led globalization. It attempts to provide a look at how this all has an impact on people around the world, especially the developing nations.”Global Trade Watch (GTW) “promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor 'free trade'.” Share The World's Resources (STWR) “is a non-politically affiliated network, campaigning for justice and peace through the equitable distribution of world resources. By exploring alternative approaches to the current use and distribution of the world's resources, and through increased public participation, we strive to elevate the issue of poverty and human rights to the top of the international political agenda.”Global Policy Forum “monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.”
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The International Monetary Fund. “The IMF is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth – yet few know how it works.”IMF Structural Adjustment Programs: The globalization of poverty. “In 1985, when the country of Sudan was in the midst of a terrible famine, the IMF refused any credit to Sudan and the country was put under a donors' embargo, because it had refused to end food subsidies. When I asked an IMF desk officer why this was happening, and said that an end to subsidies would mean that more people would starve, he answered, "Yes, but it is good for the economy''.”Water “The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America, analysts predict that within the next 15 years these companies will control 65 percent to 75 percent of what are now public waterworks. The companies have worked closely with the World Bank and other international financial institutions to gain a foothold on every continent.”"Los campesinos" by Paul Harris, 22 April 2003. “It is a myth to assert that free trade exists in the first place, in Mexico or anywhere else.”Poor, but pedicured by George Monbiot, 06 May 2003. “It appears that those at the bottom are getting richer - but sadly the maths just doesn't add up... A set of global poverty figures, presented with six-digit precision, which contains no useful comparative data from the two largest nations on earth, could be described as imaginative.”I was wrong. Free market trade policies hurt the poor by Stephen Byers, 19 May 2003. “The IMF and World Bank orthodoxy is increasing global poverty.”Cotton subsidies squeeze Mali by Joan Baxter, 19 May 2003.I was wrong about trade by George Monbiot, 24 June 2003. “Our aim should not be to abolish the World Trade Organisation, but to transform it.”Neo-liberal Nicaragua: Neo Banana Republic by Toni Solo, 29 July 2003.What went wrong in the 'New' South Africa? – "Free trade" and water mostly by Andrew Nowicki, 20 October 2003.Distant voices by Joseph Stiglitz, 12 March 2004. “A world consensus is emerging on the destructive effects of globalisation – but the Bush administration is out of line.”Resistance and survival: the case of education and free software by Toni Solo, 11 September 2004.Planet of Slums by Mike Davis, March-April 2004. “Future history of the Third World’s post-industrial megacities. A billion-strong global proletariat ejected from the formal economy, with Islam and Pentecostalism as songs of the dispossessed.”Are You Trying to Kill Us? Famine Politics and 'Aid' by Yves Engler, 15 August 2005.When two poor countries reclaimed oilfields, why did just one spark uproar? by George Monbiot, 16 May 2006.“The outcry over Bolivia's renationalisation and the silence over Chad's betrays the hypocrisy of the critics.”Don't be fooled by this reform: the IMF is still the rich world's viceroy by George Monbiot, 05 September 2006. “What will be passed off as a democratisation is in fact a way of ensuring the poor global majority continue to have no say.”
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 Africa 2000 in the New Global Context: A Commentary by Dennis Brutus, 1997. The recolonization of AfricaThe Global Rulemakers
from Global Exchange “ Our national leaders tell us that top-down corporate globalization is an inevitable, naturally-occurring phenomenon. But the terms of globalization have been defined by a few powerful organizations that operate without transparency or democratic oversight.” A Q&A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and ActivismJubilee Research - “Supporting Economic Justice Campaigns Worldwide”. The worst of times by George Monbiot, 02 September 2003. In the first of a three-part series on trade, George Monbiot argues that the rich world's brutal diplomacy is worsening the plight of poor nations. The myth of localism by George Monbiot, 09 September 2003. In the second of a three-part series on trade, George Monbiot argues that “it is unrealistic and misguided to believe that poor countries should be totally self-reliant.” A threat to the rich by George Monbiot, 16 September 2003. In the last of a three-part series on trade, George Monbiot argues that “forcing the poor countries to walk out of the Cancun trade talks may rebound on the west.” The global benefits of equality by Joseph Stiglitz, 08 September 2003. “The world should have a vested interest in resolving inequality, not just protecting its own, says Joseph Stiglitz.”The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold by Greg Palast, 10 October 2001. An interview with Joseph Stiglitz, ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank. Make Trade Fair. “Fair Trade is a growing, international movement which ensures that producers in poor countries get a fair deal.”Behind the Famine in Ethiopia: Glut and Aid Policies Gone Bad by Roger Thurow, 01 July 2003. “This essential article comes from the Wall Street Journal, of all places. Although it does not probe as deeply as one might hope into how the World Bank decided to demand policies that so egregiously failed to take into account the most basic laws of a market economy (supply and demand), it makes plain the astounding degree of incompetence.”Cholera and the Age of the Water Barons from The Center For Public Integrity, 03 February 2003. “The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America, analysts predict that within the next 15 years these companies will control 65 percent to 75 percent of what are now public waterworks. The companies have worked closely with the World Bank and other international financial institutions to gain a foothold on every continent. They aggressively lobby for legislation and trade laws to force cities to privatize their water and set the agenda for debate on solutions to the world's increasing water scarcity.”
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“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin.
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Democracy in the US.E-Voting, A Recipe for Fraud? by J.G. Schwam, 21 June 2003.How do you like your elections - fixed and murky? by Toni Solo, 15 September 2003.Vanishing Act by Chris Floyd, 19 September 2003. “It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how the United States, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States – no matter what the people of the United States might want.” [Article contains many links]Twenty Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA by Angry Girl, December 2004.Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, 26 October 2005. “As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.”Diebold in Florida by Susan Pynchon, 23 January 2006.
How easy it is to hack the Diebold voting machines.Party Hacks: California Sinks Into the Bushist Sea by Chris Floyd, 03 March 2006. “America's votes are increasingly controlled by a small number of interrelated corporations: Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, all of which have close political and financial ties to the Bush faction – and to other dark forces as well. Diebold and ES&S were both bankrolled by tycoon Howard Ahmanson, who was also a major funder of the Christian "Reconstructionist" movement, which openly advocates a totalitarian theocracy in America, including the death penalty for homosexuals, slavery for debtors, stoning for sinners and stripping nonbelievers of citizenship.”
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 Black Box Voting “Ballot-tampering in the 21st century.”Shockwave animation on voting machines. (696K). How They Could Steal the Election This Time by Ronnie Dugger, 29 July 2004.Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies by Sam Parry, 09 November 2004.How to Hack the Vote: the Short Version by Chuck Herrin, 04 December 2004. “Enron was a conspiracy theory, too. Were their whistleblowers "Crackpots"? Were the people who lost their retirements to those corporate criminals just "sore losers"? I've never been part of the "Tin Foil Hat" conspiracy theory crowd. I'm just a voter who happens to be a Professional IT Auditor.” Will The Next Election Be Hacked? by Robert F. Kennedy, 22 September 2006.
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Beware saviours in hard hats by Naomi Klein, 01 October 2003. “The poor of Argentina are standing up to the foreign multinationals seeking to exploit their country's natural resources.”Standing Up to Exploitation and Injustice: The Cajamarca Protest by Lori Berenson, 28 September 2004.Nemagon Workers Are Dying: Urgent Press Release from Kristin McKay, 28 March 2005. “Nemagon is a virulent pesticide used in banana and sugar cane plantations in Central America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines.”"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange. “From 1964 to 1992, Texaco (which transferred operations to Chevron after being bought out in 2001) unleashed a toxic "Rainforest Chernobyl" in Ecuador by leaving over 600 unlined oil pits in pristine northern Amazon rainforest and dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic production water into rivers used for bathing water. Local communities have suffered severe health effects, including cancer, skin lesions, birth defects, and spontaneous abortions.”"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange. “As anti-tobacco campaigns and government regulations are slowing tobacco use in Western countries, Philip Morris has aggressively moved into developing country markets, where smoking and smoking-related deaths are on the rise.”Amazon Pollution: Victims of 'Toxico' by Andrew Gumbel, 27 April 2005. “Environmentalists estimate around 2.5 million acres of rainforest were compromised or destroyed in Texaco's search for oil in Ecuador. It is a disaster that has left the jungle ravaged and its people dying of cancer.”Mining Glaciers: Water or Gold? by Michael Dickinson, 26 May 2006. “The assault on the glaciers will destroy the source of the special pure water which flows into the two rivers of the Valle de San Felix, and upon which the indigenous farmers rely to nourish their fields in a region of low rainfall. Apart from the water shortages and illnesses caused by the pollution that will result from the working of the massive open-pit mine, it is feared that the rivers will become so contaminated by the use of cyanide and sulphuric acid in the extraction process that they will never again be fit for human or animal consumption.”Coca-Cola in India accused of leaving farms parched and land poisoned by Paul Brown, 25 July 2003.Nicaraguans awarded $3.2m over pesticides by Dan Glaister, 07 November 2007.
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Oil.Peak Oil. “Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon. This is not the wacky proclamation of a doomsday cult, apocalypse bible prophecy sect, or conspiracy theory society. Rather, it is the scientific conclusion of the best paid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists, and investment bankers in the world. These are rational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenon known as global "Peak Oil."”Pharmaceuticals. “Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also marketing disease.”Water. “The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations.”Weapons Industry.Food.The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? by Vicky Pelaez, 13 October 2005.We shop until Chinese workers drop by Johann Hari, 03 May 2007. “She was expected to work 360 days a year from 7.30am to 9.30pm with only a half-hour break”
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National Labor Committee on Human and Worker RightsSweatshop Watch Hidden Slaves: Forced Labor in the United States (PDF file: 905K) from the Human Rights Center, Berkeley. “Forced labor exists in ninety cities across the United States. It is practiced in a wide range of industrial sectors, including domestic service, the sex industry, food service, factory production, and agriculture. In the last five years alone the press has reported 131 cases of forced labor in the United States involving 19,254 men, women, and children from a wide range of ethnic and racial groups.”
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The deceit behind global warming by Christopher Booker and Richard North, 04 November 2007.
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 The Great Global Warming Swindle. “Everything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. This film blows the whistle on the biggest swindle in modern history. We are told that 'Man Made Global Warming' is the biggest ever threat to mankind. There is no room for scientific doubt. Well, watch this film and make up your own mind.”
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Corporate State. “The corporate state has three main aspects: corporate welfare – the billons of dollars of tax-payers' money awarded to large corporations through subsidies and tax refunds; campaign contributions – the financing of politicians' campaigns by large corporations in return for the awarding of subsidies and tax refunds (and contracts); and the revolving door – the incestuous relationship between large corporations and the government by which key corporate personnel are placed in positions of power and retired politicians are given lucrative corporate positions after serving the corporations' interests.”Information about Specific Companies. Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin etc."Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005 from Global Exchange.Twenty-four companies paying less than zero in [US] federal income taxes in 1998 from ITEP (Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy), 19 October 2000.
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