By Walden Bello* This is an excerpt from the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow speech, University of California at Irvine, June 8, 2004. The full text is available at http://www.focusweb.org/main/html/Article319.html “The crisis...
Read MoreBy Mary Lou Malig On June 28, two days before the announced date of handover of power, the United States transferred political authority in Iraq, in a meeting so secret only six people participated.(1) This was the much...
Read Moreby Phyllis Bennis* The new US-UK draft resolution endorses Iraq’s interim government as “sovereign” and credentials the US-dominated occupation forces as a UN-mandated “multinational force.” It is...
Read MoreBy Alejandro Bendaña* An analytical distinction should be made between US political interventions employing primarily economic weapons in order to destabilize a popular or nationalistic government, AND a US military...
Read MoreBy William I. Robinson* The US plan for “promoting democracy” in Iraq is an integral component of its overall interventionist project in the Middle East. US rulers are deeply divided over the invasion and occupation of Iraq and...
Read MoreBy Herbert Docena* After the transfer of ‘sovereignty’ in Iraq, among those staying behind – aside from 160,000 coalition troops – is a battalion of private contractors attempting to construct economic...
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Read MoreBY BASS UMALIHow can small fishers benefit from global trade? The WTO design offers no space for small producers. Small fishers are not represented, their interests are not articulated and in many cases misrepresented in trade...
Read MoreEleventh session, Sao Paulo, 13–18 June 20041. The Civil Society Forum, meeting on the occasion of UNCTAD XI, represents social movements, pro-development groups, women’s groups, trade unions, peasants and agricultural...
Read MoreSEOUL, 13 June — Almost 15,000 people, including about 200 foreigners, gathered today in the streets of Seoul, protesting against the World Economic Forum Asian Summit. Diverse Korean movements, including KCTU...
Read Morehttp://www.solidarites.ch/journal/index.php3?action=6&id=1534&rubr=1 Nicola Bullard, animatrice de Focus on the Global South, une ONG combative basée en Thaïlande, a aussi participé à de nombreux rendez-vous...
Read MoreJune 14-15, 2004, Seoul, KoreaWe, the Asia Social and People’s Movements – trade unions, peasants, small farmers, women, consumers, students, migrant workers, urban poor, anti-war and anti-neoliberal globalization...
Read MoreIn this Issue:Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America,died at age 93 Saturday, following a decade-long battle with Alzheimer's disease. After much solemn pageantry, his remains are to be buried at...
Read MoreMore than 70 representatives of civil society organisations, mass movements, citizens' bodies, and peace groups from different States met in New Delhi on June 5-6 at a national consultation to plan a national Anti-War...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow speech, University of California at Irvine, June 8, 2004.) Over the last year, I have been preoccupied, as so many of us have, with one thing, Iraq. Iraq, as Bob Woodward...
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