ACERCA DE LA VISIÓN DEL SECRETARIO GENERAL ANNAN SOBRE LA ‘LIBERTAD PARA VIVIR SIN TEMOR’ por Walden Bello* (Comentario presentado en el Seminario sobre ‘Un Concepto Más Amplio de la Libertad’, el informe del...
Read MoreBy Josua Mata*The US-Venezuela confrontation surged to the forefront of the Meeting of Democracy-Promoting Foundations in Stockholm on August 28-30, 2005. In what many saw as a shocking display of unilateralism and arrogance,...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Speech delivered at the World Meeting of Democracy Promoting Foundations, Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, 28-30 August 2005.) It is now 25 years since the beginning of the great wave of democratisation that...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Comments delivered at a Seminar on ‘In Larger Freedom’ by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, New World Hotel, Makati, Philippines, 6 September 2005.) In its section on “Freedom from...
Read MoreThe United States’ hands-on and far from impartial involvement in the drafting of Iraq’s constitution has ensured that the document is friendly to big, international business. When Iraqis vote on the draft in...
Read MoreThe aim of this update from Geneva is to give a quick snap shot of the state of play surrounding the ongoing negotiations during the General Council (GC) of the WTO. The information in this bulletin is from the daily...
Read MoreJacques Chai Chomthongdi* G20: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. The...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard* IN the personality-free world of trade negotiations, Pascal Lamy is instantly recognisable. His close-shaved hair and a lean-and-hungry look earned through long distance running and formidable work...
Read MoreBy Jacques-chai Chomthongdi Last year, we were less than fifteen, but at this year’s WTO July General Council meeting more than 300 civil society representatives were present in Geneva. Public debates, workshops,...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* What is the actual “state of play” in Geneva? Civil society groups that regard the coming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong as condemned to producing a deal that can only be detrimental to...
Read MoreBy Jayati Ghosh* (A review of "Dilemmas of domination: The unmaking of the American empire", (Metropolitan Books, New York 2005) by Walden Bello. See http://www.henryholt.com/metropolitanbooks.htm for ordering...
Read MorePraful Bidwai in _Daily Star_.After signing the "New Framework" defence deal, which virtually turnsIndia into the United States’ subordinate ally, New Delhi has reacheda nuclear cooperation agreement with...
Read MoreDuring the Third G-20 Ministerial in Delhi on 18th and 19th March 2005, we, the representatives of the farmer unions met you in Delhi and presented a resolution passed at the National Level Farmers Rally in Kisan Ghat in Delhi...
Read MoreThe aim of this update from Geneva is to give a quick snap shot of the stateof play surrounding the ongoing negotiations during the General Council (GC)of the WTO. The information in this bulletin is from the daily briefings...
Read MoreAn AIDWA delegation comprising Subhashini Ali (President), Sudha Sundararaman (Gen. Secy.), Kalindi Deshpande (Vice President) Sehba Farooqui and Usha Rajendar Saroha, (Dist. President) visited the workers of the Honda...
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