By Walden Bello International trade today is one of the key battlefields between pro-corporate globalization and anti-corporate globalization forces. This struggle is likely to become more intense in the next few months as the...
Read MoreBy Herbert Docena The ruse that US soldiers are going to the Philippines for training finally collapsed last week with Washington’s unexpected admission that they’re really here for war. What they still failed to say however is...
Read MoreBy Renato Redentor Constantino As the world edges closer to war courtesy of petroleum-addicted America, the literature of deceit grows ever larger and more ridiculous. While the Bush team continues to spread its Hitlerite...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa Developing countries must reject Harbinson textWTO’s Agriculture Committee Chair Stuart Harbinson has released his first draft modalities paper on agriculture, ahead of this weekend’s mini-ministerial meeting...
Read MoreWaiting for my flight out of Narita international airport, I see a familiar face on television-that of US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, this timedemanding that Japan open up its agricultural market in the same way that...
Read MoreNUMBER 85, February 2003 (PDF version click here) AGRICULTURE PROPOSAL WILL INCREASE DUMPING, UNEMPLOYMENT AND HUNGER Aileen Kwa THE REEMERGENCE OF BALANCE-OF-POWER POLITICS Walden Bello CONFRONTING EMPIRE...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello People speak and write today about feelings of utter powerlessness to prevent the coming war. So powerful is the US. And so determined to strike. Impotence in the face of the supremely powerful. With our...
Read MoreBy Jenina Joy Chavez Malaluan and Shalmali Guttal The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) claim that the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) signal a new approach to tackling the challenges of...
Read MoreBy Arundhati Roy I’ve been asked to speak about “How to confront Empire?” It’s a huge question, and I have no easy answers. When we speak of confronting “Empire,” we need to identify what...
Read MoreBy Herbert V Docena HYDERABAD, INDIA – Miyoko Matsubara’s breaking voice blared through the public address speakers. It has been a long journey from Hiroshima to Hyderabad. At 70, Miyoko has come a long way from 1944...
Read MoreBy Walden BelloThis article was written for Interpress Service [IPS] on January 14, 2003. Copyright by IPS. Special permission to reproduce it was given to Focus on Trade.On January 23-28, thousands of people from all over the...
Read MoreBy Praful Bidwai This editorial was published in The Hindustan Times, January 10, 2003 The just-concluded Asian Social Forum (ASF) saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people’s organisations and radical...
Read MoreIN THIS (special, all male) ISSUE OF FOCUS on TRADETHE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: From Florence to Porto Alegre, via Hyderabad: A Year in the Life of the World Social ForumBy Walden BelloTHE ASIAN SOCIAL FORUM: A Great Movement is...
Read MoreIN THIS ISSUE OF FOCUS on TRADEThis issue of Focus on Trade includes a back-of-the envelope calculation of the state of play in Geneva, Walden Bello's rally-cry to the peace activists in Korea to link with the...
Read MoreA FONDO: NICOLA BULLARD, GEOGRAFA “El neoliberalismo transfirió el costo de la crisis a los débiles” Las recetas del FMI. Corea, Tailandia e Indonesia, los líderes del modelo neoliberal de...
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