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The US has always promoted its strategic and economic interests by exalting its own political and economic model of liberal democracy and market capitalism as superior to all else, and when others disagree, they readily resort to covert or overt force to make the point.
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By Walden Bello Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York 272 p, $25, Pub. Date March 4, 2005 , ISBN 0-8050-7402-3 Order from Amazon The political and economic institutions of Washington ‘s global hegemony, including the system of global economic governance centered on the World Trade Org …
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IRAQ, INC.: A PROFITABLE OCCUPATION by Pratap Chatterjee "A powerful combination of investigative research and on-the-ground reporting." -Naomi Klein, author No Logo, columnist The Guardian, UK In Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of watchdog group …
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The Asia Land Meeting was an initiative born from interest expressed during two meetings: one, an international meeting in Washington DC in April 2002, of a group of academics and activists working with or representing people’s organisations from throughout Asia, each involved in the stru …
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By Walden Bello, co-authored by Mary Lou Malig, Herbert Docena and Marissa de Guzman The book the Anti-Development State: the political economy of permanent crisis in the Philippines was just released in Manila. The book by Dr. Walden Bello and co authored by, Mary Lou Malig, Herbert Docena a …
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In October, 2003, Focus on the Global South, a regional program for policy research, analysis and action, in collaboration with the Poverty and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), brought together representatives of 20 no …
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By Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen KwaZed Books, London. This immensely important book on the politics of the WTO, which takes the lid off how the WTO really works, and what really happened before, at, and after the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha in 2001, on the basis of interviews …
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By Aileen Kwa The World Trade Organization (WTO) has often been portrayed as the pinnacle of the multilateral system of global economic governance.Why it has achieved this reputation is puzzling since it is one of the most undemocratic organizations around. Formally speaking, the WTO is a one-countr …
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