NUMBER 86, April 2003
NUMBER 86, April 2003 (PDF version click here) WAR IN IRAQ THE STALEMATE IN IRAQ AND THE GLOBAL PEACE MOVEMENT By Walden Bello FOCUS DECLINES TO REQUEST DFID GRANT RENEWAL IN PROTEST AT BRITISH ROLE...
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WTO GRIDLOCK: LOWERING EXPECTATIONS AND LOOKING FOR SCAPEGOATS
By Nicola Bullard Just two weeks into the war on Iraq, journalists and politicians were already starting to see the useful tie-in between the breakdown in transatlantic relations and the deadlock in the WTO. The timing is...
Read MoreCALL FOR MOBILIZATION TOWARD THE WTO MEETING IN CANCUN 2003
Dear companeros and companeras concerned about the WTO:Last 15 and 16 of November, we came to together in Mexico City as a broad spectrum of Mexican and international civil society organizations and held a strategy session to...
Read MoreWTO AGRICULTURE TALKS SET TO EXACERBATE WORLD HUNGER
By Aileen Kwa One person dies every four seconds because of hunger, 24,000 people die of hunger or hunger-related illnesses daily. (1) One in every five persons in the developing world is chronically undernourished; the majority...
Read MorePASCAL LAMY HOLDS COURT AT THE ORIENTAL
By Walden Bello and Chanida Bamford On April 1, 2003, in what was described as an effort to “reach out” to civil society, European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy met with representatives of several...
Read More“UNITING FOR PEACE”: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROVIDES CRUCIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR GLOBAL PEACE MOVEMENT
By Jeremy Brecher The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on Iraq. But US opposition has been fierce. The world’s “other...
Read MoreThe Stalemate in Iraq and the Global Peace Movement
By Walden Bello Before the US-UK invasion of Iraq, I was occasionally invited to television talk shows to provide an “unconventional” counterpoint to Philippine government officials who confidently echoed the...
Read MoreMesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
By Arundhati Roy Appeared in The Guardian 2nd April 2003 How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are...
Read MoreCall for Peace and invoke UN Resolution 377 now
by Red Constantino, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Greenpeace calls on the Arroyo administration to support the groundswell taking place in the UN today calling for the involvement of the UN General Assembly in resolving the crisis...
Read MoreIn Baghdad, a birthday party in the midst of bombs
By ASIAN PEACE MISSION TO IRAQ WHILE HUNDREDS OF BOMBS POURED DOWN BAGHDAD over the weekend, an Iraqi child celebrated her birthday in a small garden party by the Tigris river. Cruise missiles were exploding all over the city,...
Read MoreOUR DAYS IN BAGHDAD
By ASIAN PEACE MISSION TO IRAQ A war on the children, not on Saddam REPORT OF THE ASIAN PEACE MISSION TO IRAQ, 13 – 18 MARCH 2003 In justifying its war on Iraq, the United States has swung between claiming that the country...
Read MoreSpringtime in Baghdad
By Walden Bello It was cool and sunny when we set out early this morning to meet with students at Baghdad University. As it has been over the last few days that we have been here, the city appeared to be going about its business...
Read MoreUS Military Obsessed with Getting Back to the Philippines
By Dr Chalmers Johnson Interview with Dr Chalmers Johnson With Herbert Docena and Tom Reifer October 8, 2002, Cardiff by the Sea, California What are the implications of the new doctrine of preemptive strikes for US military...
Read MoreDeception and Constitutional Crisis
By Walden Bello The official deception that has accompanied the proposed deployment of US troops in Sulu is appalling. There may often be problems with its editorial policy but when it comes to reporting the facts, the New York...
Read MoreLetter to the Indian Minister of Commerce, Mr. Arun Jaitley
Dear Commerce Minister Shri. Arun Jaitley,We have read on the website of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) that “the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC) – a business arm of Commonwealth countries and the...
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