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Naini: Profits Over People: The FTAA’s Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere
Commentary, April, 29 2001
Ali Naini
Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion do...
Author: Profits Over People: The FTAAÕs Negative Impacts on the People of the Western Hemisphere
Commentary, April, 29 2001
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Recently, the leaders of thirty-four nations in the Americas, representing every country except Cuba, gathered to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposed trade agreement encompassing 800 million people and eleven trillion do...
Naiman: Debt Cancellation, Not Corporate Trade Deals, Would Help the Poor
Commentary, April, 28 2001
Robert Naiman
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The verbal flubs of President Bush in Quebec City were widely reported to the amusement of the educated. He referred to the language of Mexico (Spanish) as "Mexican" and called the Canadian leader "amigo" (rather than using the French "ami.")
Glick: On Winning Hearts and Minds
Commentary, April, 28 2001
Ted Glick
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A year ago, on April 17th, 2000, I wrote a Future Hope column which likened both the forms of action and the relative organizational coherence of the April 16th actions in D.C. against the IMF/World Bank to a regular army without violent weapons, ...
Podur: Invisible Struggles in Colombia
Commentary, April, 27 2001
Justin Podur
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If you had the chance to see 'Traffic', you know the War on Drugs is a sham. There's a good chance you know that its domestic effects are to imprison thousands and thousands of non-violent offenders who aren't dangerous, cut them off from their fa...
Bohmer: Cuba Today
Commentary, April, 26 2001
Peter Bohmer
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Forty years ago on April 16th , 2001, in the Vedado section of Havana, Fidel Castro announced to the Cuban people and beyond that the Cuban revolution had become a socialist revolution. On April 16th, 2001 in the same place, Fidel reaffirmed CubaÕ...
Prashad: Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day
Commentary, April, 25 2001
Vijay Prashad
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Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. "You can give dollars," said the President of the BJP. "You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Sec...
Peters: Purchasing for your Poodle: Consumerism Unleashed
Commentary, April, 24 2001
Cynthia Peters
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A refugee from the Sudan is in a grocery store in Fargo, North Dakota. Orphaned by war, traumatized by loss and violence, and having survived most his life on minimal rations, this young man, Peter, is understandably amazed by the endless of aisle...
Anderson: FTAA violence
Graphic, April, 23 2001
Kirk Anderson
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FTAA, free trade, globalization, protest, media
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...
