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WTO
- Daily updates from Jane Kelsey, from Cancun, Mexico, 10 to 14 September 2003
- Neoliberal Globalisation: Cancun and Beyond. An In-Depth Report on the World Trade Organisation, Aziz Choudry, August 2003
- WTO in Sydney, Indymedia coverage, 14 - 16 November 2002
- The Global Justice Movement: Alive and Kicking, Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, 5 December 2001
- Doha Spells Disaster for Development, Caroline Lucas, 18 November 2001
- The Meaning of Doha, Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal, 16 November 2001
- US Needs New Thinking on Global Trade, Robert Kuttner, 12 November 2001
- Secret Documents Reveal WTO-Corporate Collusion, CorpWatch, 12 November 2001
- WTO: Nothing to lose but your jobs... 11 November 2001
- Fair trade group targets WTO with "secret weapon": Mike Moore, GATT WAtchdog, 11 August 2000
- Alert! Visit of Mike Moore (WTO), 3 August 2000
- Seattle National Lawyers Guild Release Draft Report on WTO Ministerial, 12 July 2000
- Stranger than Fiction? Mystery lurks behind protest, Paul Jackson, 2 May 2000
- The Historic Significance of Seattle, Vandana Shiva, 11 December 1999
- Amnesty International calls for an inquiry into police actions at WTO talks in Seattle (10/12/99)
- WTO, Seattle - Women's Caucus (9/12/99)
- The Passion for Free Markets - Noam Chomsky (8/12/99)
- WTO - global movement for human rights statement (8/12/99)
- Greens Press Reforms After WTO Trade Talks Collapse (8/12/99)
- The battle of Seattle, Michael Moore (7/12/99)
- A Whiff of Democracy in Seattle (6/12/99)
- NGO statement on WTO crisis in Seattle : a call for change (2/12/99)
- WTO violates international conventions (2/12/99)
- WTO Pacific - PCRC statement (2/12/99)
- IAC - reports on WTO/Seattle (2/12/99)
- Seattle events - opinion from the anti-war list (2/12/99)
- WTO online - list of useful links (2/12/99)
- Call for Pacific nations to reject WTO agenda (2/12/99)
- The WTO, health, and education (28/11/99)
- WTO shapes local health care policies (27/11/99)
- Economic Crises Accentuate Rural Poverty (24/11/99)
- Chossudovsky - Seattle and beyond (24/11/99)
- Indigenous Peoples Occupy World Bank Premises in New Delhi (24/11/99)
- 10 Reasons to Dismantle the WTO (23/11/99)
- Exactly what is the WTO? (22/11/99)
- The Stealth Coup - The WTO and the Fed (21/11/99)
- Women & the WTO (21/11/99)
- Corporations on trial in Seattle (18/11/99)
- WTO free logging condemned - Australia (11/11/99)
- WTO head warns Seattle talks could fail (11/11/99)
- Rachel #675 - The WTO turns back the clock (4/11/99)
- Kofi Annan on the WTO (2/11/99)
- September 15, 1999
International Day of Action against the World Trade Organization (8/9/99)
- WTO: hidden tentacles - Geoffrey Lean (17/8/99)
- Free Trade: Mike Moore / WTO (21/7/99)
- Nelson Mandela'a statement on GATT, 19 May 1998 (19/5/98)
Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement
- GATT Watchdog Activist Goes to Hong Kong to Liberate Secret Trade and Investment Agreement, GATT Watchdog, 28 October 2001
- Hong Kong Free Trade & Investment Deal, Arena, 21 May 2001
- Stop the Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement,Aotearoa Educators, 20 April 2001
- NZ and Hong Kong announce trade talks, John Armstrong, 18 April 2001
- New Study on Hong Kong Trade Deal, ARENA, 17 April 2001
- Alert: Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement, GATT Watchdog, 9 November 2000
Singapore Free Trade Agreement
- Parliamentary debate and vote a charade : Singapore Free Trade Agreement, GATT Watchdog, 7 November 2000
- Singapore Free Trade Agreement Submissions, GATT Watchdog, 21 October 2000
- Submission on Singapore Free Trade Agreement, David Williams, 19 September 2000
- Singapore Free Trade and Investment Agreement Submissions, 18 September 2000
- Outrage Over Indecent Haste to Sneak Singapore Deal Through, GATT Watchdog, 14 September 2000
- Singapore Agreement Process a 'Sham', Jane Kelsey, 13 September 2000
- Jim Sutton Agrees ! GATT Watchdog, 7 September 2000
- The Trojan Horse, Jane Kelsey, 6 September 2000
- Dialogue: Human reality hidden in new free trade deal, Aziz Choudry, 6 September 2000
- Singapore Treaty has serious foreign investment implications, CAFCA, 18 August 2000
- Singapore diplomats meet GATT Watchdog, GATT Watchdog, 17 August 2000
- Background to Singapore trade agreement, Bill Rosenberg 11 August 2000
- Singapore Free Trade Agreement a Trojan Horse, Green Party, 19 July 2000
APEC-IMF
'New' world order? and General
- Bechtel And Blood For Water: War As An Excuse For Enlarging Corporate Rule, Vandana Shiva, 12 May 2003
- The WTO, War and Globalisation: Forever New Frontiers, Aziz Choudry, 18 March 2003
- Left Behind To Starve - A humanitarian disaster is engulfing Africa as cash is poured into the war with Iraq and its aftermath, George Monbiot, 18 March 2003
- Could Tony Blair look at the internet now, please? Why is the British Prime Minister the only person who seems to be unaware of the US hawks' agenda, Terry Jones, 2 March 2003
- Action Alert! Beware the G A T S - Join the next battle against globalization, Arena, February 2003
- Out of the wreckage - by tearing up the global rulebook, the US is in fact undermining its own imperial rule, George Monbiot, 25 February 2003
- Gaining an Empire, Losing Democracy? Norman Mailer, 25 Februaru 2003
- To crush the poor - first it was Reds, then drugs, then terror; so who have the US really been fighting in Colombia? George Monbiot, 4 February 2003
- Stronger than ever - far from fizzling out, the global justice movement is growing in numbers and maturity, George Monbiot, 28 January 2003
- Confronting Empire, Arundhati Roy, 28 January 2003
- A fair trade, Salil Shetty, 22 January 2003
- Going Backwards - IMF Strong-Arming Debtors Despite New Lending Guidelines, Emad Mekay, 11 December 2002
- Critical resistance, Camille T. Taiara, 20 November 2002
- Trading With The Enemy: Corporations Say They Will Continue To Do Business With Iraq, Jeremy Scahill, 11 November 2002
- Thousands Protest Free Trade Talks in Ecuador, Edison Lopez, 1 November 2002
- It's a New Day, and Brazil Wants a New Deal, Mark Weisbrot, 1 November 2002
- The people must protest, Paul Foot, 30 October 2002
- Do As We Say, Not As We Do - the free market is imposed on the poor world, but absent from the rich world, George Monbiot, 29 October 2002
- Where on earth are public/private partnerships leading us? Big business not the answer, Jane Kelsey, 24 October 2002
- The rich world's veto on reform: the global grip of western vested interests can only be overcome by a democratic revolution, George Monbiot, 15 October 2002
- Going Backwards: America's For-Profit Secret Army, Leslie Wayne, 13 October 2002
- The Dinosaur War - To Protect Corporate Profits, Thom Hartmann, 11 October 2002
- This marks the death of deterrence: Bush's new doctrine kills the principle of state sovereignty, Richard Norton-Taylor, 9 October 2002
- Make farming sustainable, equitable, Vandana Shiva, 3 October 2002
- Tens of Thousands of Marchers Gather Against Privatization in South Africa, AFP, 1 October 2002
- Activists Decry Police Intimidation in Anti-Globalization Protests, AFP, 1 October 2002
- Trouble in the Pipeline: The Corporate Promises Being Made at the Earth Summit Are Likely to Prove Hollow, George Monbiot, 3 September 2002
- Globalization Fails to Deliver the Goods, Mark Weisbrot, 29 August 2002
- Eat All of Your McAfrika, Honey, Because I Have a Funny Feeling There Might Be Starving People Out There Somewhere, Carol Norris, 29 August 2002
What do we really want? Economic growth is seen as good, yet it makes many in the rich world miserable, George Monbiot, 27 August 2002
- New From McDonald's: The McAfrika Burger (Don't Tell the 12m Starving), Andrew Osborn, 24 August 2002
- US to Seek Mideast Reforms: Programs Aim to Foster Democracy, Education, Markets, Peter Slevin and Glenn Kessler, 21 August 2002
- Fiddling While Africa Starves, Brandon Keim, 21 August 2002
- Moral Relativism Won't Defeat Terrorists, Mike O'Donnell, 16 August 2002
- Peace and Sustainable Development Will Rise or Fall Together, David Krieger, 15 August 2002
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War on the peasantry: Mugabe's crimes pale next to what black small farmers endure in the name of development, George Monbiot, 13 August 2002
- Papua New Guinea: Privatisation freeze, Shane McLeod, 12 August 2002
- Sustainable Development or Self-Determination? Radha D'Souza, 9 August 2002
- Bush Administration Tries to Hide Role in Venezuela Coup, Mark Weisbrot, 7 August 2002
- Killing Me Softly: why is it that whenever I think of the Pacific, the word 'dumping' comes to mind? Aziz Choudry, 3 August 2002
- Free Markets Promote Unrest, Not Democracy, Eduardo Moncada, 2 August 2002
- Why globalisation fails to deliver: it is time to admit that the experiment has failed, Mark Weisbrot, 28 July 2002
- Free Markets Have Failed a Continent: Latin America is Gagging on the Prescriptions of the Bush Family, Isabel Hilton, 23 July 2002
- Imprisoned by 'Democracy'? Aziz Choudry, 21 July 2002
- Nigerian Women's Protest Wins Oil Company Attention, Editorial, 20 July 2002
- US Policy Toward Latin America Ignores Poverty, Disparity, Max Castro, 16 July 2002
- Justice for Bhopal: Corporate Crimes and Their Bodycount, Rahul Mahajan, 15 July 2002
- Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith, Norman Solomon, 11 July 2002
- Bush's Record on Corporate Ethics, Robert Kuttner, 10 July 2002
- Bush: Corporate Confidence Man, Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman, 9 July 2002
- Listen to the Nonviolent Poor: Allow for Peaceful Change, Before Violent Change Becomes Inevitable, Arundhati Roy, 5 July 2002
- 'Peanuts': G8 Leaders Launch New Plan for Africa, Activists Angry, AFP, 28 June 2002
- Come On G-8, Surprise Us! CWS, 27 June 2002
- Profits over people: how the World Food Summit in Rome last fortnight buried food rights, and clearly laid the contours of the future the powerful of the world are designing, Vandana Shiva, 22 June 2002
- Alternative Futures: A Review of 'Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy', Robert Jensen, 21 June 2002
- Why Half the Planet is Hungry, Amartya Sen, 16 June 2002
- US Firms Face Suits for Overseas Acts: New Twist on Anti-Pirate Law Blurs Borders, Extends Liability, David Baker, 15 June 2002
- Pacific Leaders Push Islands Worries at World Food Summit, PINA, 13 June 2002
- Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media, Bernie Sanders, 12 June 2002
- Time to Come Clean on the Dirty Secret of Starvation: this week's World Food Summit will once again avoid the real issues, John Vidal, 10 June 2002
- Thousands Protest 'War on Hunger': Leaders Facing Tall Order as They Gather for Food Summit, AFP, 9 June 2002
- Globalizing Clinical Research: Big Pharma Tries Out First World Drugs on Unsuspecting Third World Patients, Sonia Shaw, 1 July 2002
- Why US Farm Subsidies Are Bad for the World: they make it possible for us to export food so cheaply that farmers in poorer nations can't possibly compete, Andrew Cassel, 6 May 2002
- Clare Short's true commitment is to western capital: in Ghana, her department has made aid money conditional on the privatisation of water, John Pilger, 01 May 2002
- Ordinary people had the right to expect that after 18 years of the Tories, Tony Blair would be different, John Pilger, 30 April 2002
- Venezuela / Israel: the lies go on, John Pilger, 26 April 2002
- Bush's Bay of Piglets: If the US was the Villain in the Venezuelan Coup, Latin America's Much-Derided Leaders Were the Heroes, Duncan Campbell, 24 April 2002
- When Surrender Isn't Good Enough, Mark Weisbrot, 22 April 2002
- Trade Minister's response to EU WTO Services Document Misleading: Call For NZ GATS Positions to be Made Public, GATT Watchdog, 22 April 2002
- Media release on EU-GATS documents, ARENA, 21 April 2002
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,685670,00.html">Secret documents reveal EU's tough stance on global trade, John Vidal, Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott, 17 April 2002
- No such thing as a 'free' trade deal, Jeanette Fitzsimons, 10 April 2002
- World Bank to West Bank: The Movement Written Off After September 11 is Demonstrating Its Worth in Palestine, George Monbiot, 9 April 2002
- Aid (alone) won't fix world poverty, CWS, 22 March 2002
- Price of Free Trade: Famine, Marc Edelman, 22 March 2002
- Corporate Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy, Robert Jensen, 20 March 2002
- 'IMF Go To Hell' - the people of Argentina have tried the IMF approach, now they want it their way, Naomi Klein, 16 March 2002
- Globalizing Conflicts, Seth Sandronsky, 16 March 2002
- More Than 300,000 Protest Against EU Summit, AFP, 16 March 2002
- Free Trade for Other Nations, Not US? Seth Sandronsky, 8 March 2002
- Let's Return to Responsible Capitalism, William Pfaff, 4 March 2002
- Only One Source for News Hurts All, John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, 26 February 2002
- Shall We Leave It to the Experts? Enron's Power Project in India Demonstrates Who Benefits from Globalization, Arundhati Roy, 3 February 2002
- Another World Is Possible, Susan George, to be published 18 February 2002
- Globalization Has to Take Human Rights into Account, Mary Robinson, 22 January 2002
- The Global Justice Movement: Alive and Kicking, Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman,5 December 2001
- Unrestricted Trade In NZ Education Of Major Concern, NZEI, 26 September 2001
- Are you going to CHOGM? Do you know someone who is?, Rebecca Lineham, 26 September 2001
- Pacific Free Trade Area, PANG statement, 16 August 2001
- Walk the Walk in Denver: Transform Columbus Day, Pavlos Stavropoulos, August 2001
- Bringing It All Back Home: Anti-globalisation Activism Cannot Ignore Colonial Realities, ZNet Commentary 2 August 2001
- Update: Genoa arrests, 26 July 2001
- Wellington journalist arrested at Genoa, 24 July 2001
- Trade Union Federation Leader injured in Davos, 29 January 2001
- Organizing in the Face of Increased Repression, Starhawk, 15 December 2000
- US Chile Free Trade Agreement deals blow to Brazil's Mercosur Vision, 12 December 2000
- Globalization's Impact: Rural Poverty on the Rise, 29 November 2000
- World Economic Forum, Nandor Tanczos, 20 September 2000
- Background on World Economic Forum, Green Party, 13 September 2000
- Fair Trade Group Condemns NZ Government Secrecy, 23 July 2000
- Minority Government must think again on trade, 21 July 2000
- Debt Decision Day, 21 July 2000
- Statement of WILPF International at Copenhagen + 5 - WILPF, 11 July 2000
- Caribbean Fails at Tackling Poverty, 22 June 2000
- Renewing Broken Promises, 2 June 2000
- Say no to Privatisation of Water, 23 May 2000
- Mahathir slams rich nations' dominance, Mahathir Mohamad, 23 May 2000
- Free Trade or Fair Trade?- Bill Rosenberg (19/5/2000)
- Poverty and Globalisation, Vandana Shiva (10/5/2000)
- Globalisation and the trafficking of women and children - The menace of human trafficking (4/5/2000)
- Asian Development Bank meeting spurs paranoia against protesters (24/4/2000)
- Message of Solidarity to NGO Assembly of the World Water Forum (17/3/2000)
- Nuclear Weapons and Globalization, Stephen Staples February 2000
- Australia's new role in the 'Asia Pacific' (14/12/99)
- Poverty - the worst of human rights violations (8/12/99)
- Chossudovsky - Seattle and beyond (24/11/99)
- Global deals won't profit the poor (22/11/99)
- Globalisation: US corporations prefer dictatorships (19/11/99)
- Rachel #677 - Corporate rights vs. human need (18/11/99)
- Massive jump in foreign bank profits (16/11/99)
- Financing for development (4/11/99)
- Deadly cost of the new global warfare (4/11/99)
- For the next century, will it be NATO, or the UN? (30/10/99)
- Structural adjustment - effects in Zambia (29/10/99)
- Free Trade rules OK - Green Party apalled by trade figures (28/10/99)
- Global People's Tribunal on Corporate Crimes against Humanity (12/10/99) to be held November 27-29, 1999
- Hazel Henderson interview - on caring economics (27/9/99)
- The threat of democracy - Mary Zepernick (24/9/99)
- Green Party pledges to curb sale of land to foreigners (24/9/99)
- No to Patenting of Life ! (19/9/99)
- Poor had the chance and they blew it? - Saul Landau (16/9/99)
- Globalisation, Adjustment and the Structural Transformation of African Economies? - Howard Stein (16/9/99)
- NZ Government puts trade and diplomacy ahead of human rights - Rod Donald (15/9/99)
- 'Free' markets nothing but a dangerously flawed ideal - Michael Gilchrist (7/9/99)
- Globalisation and Maori (7/9/99)
- Ovide Mercredi on globalisation (4/9/99)
- Monsanto's expanding monopolies from seed to water - Vandana Shiva
- 'Knowledge economy' just a vacuous notion - Jane Kelsey (17/8/99)
- Welcome to the new world order - Richard Moore (14/7/99)
- An alternative view of the lamb tariff debate (12/7/99)
- 'Free' trade - lamb comments (9/7/99)
- New Zealand "experiment" a colossal failure - Jane Kelsey (9/7/99)
- Lockwood Smith frustrated by US, 5 July 1999 (5/7/99)
- The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy - Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans (18/6/99)
- No future in Neanderthal policies - Lockwood Smith (18/6/99)
- Biodiversity negotiations failure (17/6/99)
- Whose international community is it really? - Jeremy Seabrook (17/6/99)
- Middle road is the best place to get run over - profound wisdom from Lockwood Smith (17/6/99)
- Speech of Thomas Kocherry on the occasion of the prize ceremony of the Sophie Foundation (15/6/99)
- PM and Liberalisation Achievements in Peru (15/5/99)
- Economic globalisation, indigenous peoples, and the role of indigenous women
- Makere Harawira May 1999, Hague Appeal for Peace Conference
The Roger Awards for the worst transnational corporation
- Nominations form for The Roger Award For the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2003 - closing date 31 October 2003
- The Roger Award 2002 - Judges’ Report
- The Roger Award 2002 - Judges’ Statement
- Roger Award: 2002 Winners Announced - Tranz Rail wins again! CAFCA and GATT Watchdog, 7 May 2003
- Finalists named for the Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation in NZ in 2002, CAFCA and GATT Watchdog, 23 January 2003
- The Roger Award For the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2002 - closing date 31 October 2002
- Carter Holt Harvey winner of the Roger Award for the Worst TNC in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2001, CAFCA / GATT Watchdog, 12 April 2002
- Roger Award 2001 finalists and judges, CAFCA, March 2002
- Roger Award 2001 nomination form, GATT Watchdog and CAFCA, 7 June 2001
- Tranz Rail Wins Roger Award, GATT Watchdog and CAFCA, 5 April 2001
- Battling to derail the TNCs in New Zealand, Aziz Choudry, April 2001
- Roger Awards 2000 nomination form, 4 July 2000
- Roger Award for 1999 - TransAlta, 22 February 2000
- TransAlta winner of Roger Award for 1999 - media release, 18 February 2000
- The real election? - Roger Award finalists named, 30 November 1999
- Monsanto wins Roger Award, 28 April 1999
- The full judgement, 27 April 1999
Links
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A short history of neo-liberalism: twenty years of elite economics and emerging opportunities for structural change, by Susan George. Your (relatively) simple guide to how neo-liberalism came to take over the world ...
- POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy: a thought provoking collection of articles designed to engage you ! US focussed, but universally useful.
- Campaign Against Foreign Control
of Aotearoa opposes foreign control, and the exploitation of Aotearoa's people and resources by foreign companies
and any foreign military or intelligence activities in Aotearoa. The site lists Overseas Investment Commission Decisions
- End the Arms Race have completed a study of the MAI: "Protecting
War: Militarism and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)", which you
can read at this site.
- Its' Not Worth It: Check out the new Aotearoa / NZ Monitoring
Group website, the official virtual site of opposition to APEC 99 ! All
your questions about APEC 99 answered, and more...
- Multinational Monitor: this online journal tracks corporate activity,
especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health, and safety,
labour union issues and the environment.
- MAI : The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, aka how to bypass
democracy and the people in the interests of corporations and profits for
the rich. Global opposition to this can be found at this site.
- MAI - the Aotearoa/NZ perspective
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