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Mokhiber: Stop the Torture Trade
Commentary, April, 23 2001
Russell Mokhiber
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Torture predates the development of the corporation. But corporations are entangled in the modern-day commerce in devices of torture. In a new report, Amnesty International shines a spotlight on the makers of law enforcement equipment and how the...
Anderson: FTAA regulatory walls
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
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FTAA, regulation
Anderson: Free Trade Area of America
Graphic, April, 22 2001
Kirk Anderson
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ftaa, globalization, free trade
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Commentary, April, 22 2001
Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...
Weiss: Colombia's Paramilitary
Znet Article, April, 22 2001
Adam Weiss
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The paramilitaries of Colombia are among the most brutal human rights violators in the world today. They are waging a war against the civilian population of Colombia, taking on the "dirty war" aspects of a counterinsurgency campaign that the Colo...
Guellec: The Abandonment of the patient In profit-driven health care
Commentary, April, 21 2001
Dorothy Guellec
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Profit-driven healthcare is what we have today, but the end may be in sight, at least the former JAMA Editor George D. Lundberg (Journal of the American Medical Association) thinks so. In his explosive new book ÒSevered Trust: Why American Medicin...
Deutsch: Censorship Ain't Even Necessary
Graphic, April, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
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FTAA, media, censorship
Deutsch: Effects of NAFTA
Graphic, April, 20 2001
Barry Deutsch
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NAFTA, FTAA, George Bush, Bush, George W. Bush, globalization
Choudry: Battling to derail the TNCs in New Zealand
Commentary, April, 20 2001
Aziz Choudry
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The UNCTAD World Investment Report 2000 rated New Zealand as the most transnationalised economy in the OECD. Most of New Zealand's productive, financial, energy, retail, transport, media and communications sectors are now in the hands of transnati...
Administrator: Learning About Quebec and Canada
Commentary, April, 18 2001
Site Administrator
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In a few weeks, activists will be traveling to Quebec to protest the attempt by government leaders to negotiate a Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA). ThereÕs been much talk about the security and anti-protest measures being taken by the Canad...
