By Aileen Kwa IntroductionThe European Union (EU) has a clear trade agenda vis a vis developing countries, that is to gain access to markets for their corporations. This trade agenda was in the past addressed through trade...
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Read MoreBy Manpreet Sethi With Indian and Pakistani military forces placed as they presently are, it is not surprising that the threat of nuclear war is being talked about so casually and with such a normality that is totally amiss. In...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello The political reality of Venezuela hits me as soon as I arrive, like a blast of Caribbean air at midday. A friendly question triggers a torrent of anti-Chavez denunciations from the young professional serving as...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello (Talk delivered at meeting of International Council of the World Social Forum, Bangkok, 13-15 August, 2002.) This meeting of the WSF International Council is taking place against a background of what is shaping...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello (This article also appears in Red Pepper, September 2002) Ten years after the Rio de Janeiro Conference on Environment and Development, the global environmental situation is unarguably worse. The main culprit: an...
Read MoreBy Raj Patel AN ENVIRONMENTAL LOOKING GLASS There’s going to be a vibrant spectrum of green at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg: turquoise tree-huggers will swap beads, guerrilla gardeners will...
Read MoreBy Victor Menotti President George W. Bush’s absence will be more than obvious when heads of state and tens of thousand of people converge in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 – September 4, 2002 at the...
Read Morepar Walden Bello http://www.lagauche.com/lagauche/article.php3?id_article=22L’atteinte à la réputation des entreprises qui ont constitué à une époque le gratin de Wall Street se poursuit...
Read MoreNew Left Review 16, July-August 2002 The Filipino analyst and organizer of Focus on the Global South, veteran of the years of Allende and Marcos, discusses the prospects for the World Social Forum after September 11, arguing for...
Read MoreSTATEMENT OF THE ASIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS MEETING The first meeting of Asian Social Movements takes place against a background of what is shaping up as the worst crisis of global capitalism since the Great Depression, seventy...
Read More“Todo el mundo dice que las reglas son importantes para los países pobres, pero la presión bilateral que ahora se está haciendo es más poderosa que las reglas. Si yo me quejo demasiado, EE.UU...
Read MoreBy Marco Mezzera Introduction Voices in Kabul seem to sing in unison, “We are so happy that the Taliban have left. Now, we are free again to do what we want – to sing, to listen to music, to cut off our...
Read MoreThis issue of Focus on Trade has an apocalyptic mood – the deepening crisis of capitalism, the re-emergence of warlordism in Afghanistan, prospects of a US war against Iraq and gloomy predictions of a totally...
Read MoreIn this issue CAPITALIST CRISIS AND CORPORATE CRIMEBy Walden BelloREVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION IN VENEZUELABy Walden BelloDON'T MULTIPLY THE LOAVES AND FISHES, JUST DISTRIBUTE THEMWhat should be on the Brazilian...
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