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• Friday, Jan 01, 2010
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  Pearson: Mexico Movement

  

  ZMag Article

  November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers

  Tamara Pearson ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Dec 10, 2009
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  Bello: Hyper-Capitalism & Copenhagen Summit

  

  

  ZNet Article

  Unless we re-think the export-oriented capitalism that's causing all of our climate problems, the Copenhagen conference will be nothing more than a Band-Aid.

  Walden Bello ZSpace page
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• Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
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  Sinclair: Book review: Clean Clothes

  

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  Book review: Clean clothes. A global movement to end sweatshops by Liesbeth Sluiter

  Ian Sinclair ZSpace page
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• Saturday, Nov 28, 2009
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  Bello: The Meaning of Seattle

  

  

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  Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action.

  Walden Bello ZSpace page
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• Friday, Nov 27, 2009
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  Guilloud: From Seattle to Detroit

  

  ZNet Article

  10 Lessons for Movement Building on the 10th Anniversary of the WTO Shutdown

  Stephanie Guilloud ZSpace page
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• Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009
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  Goodman: A True Thanksgiving

  

  

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  “In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.”

  Amy Goodman ZSpace page
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• Sunday, Nov 15, 2009
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  Klein: Seattle Grows Up

  

  

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  The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, the spark that ignited a global anticorporate movement.

  Naomi Klein ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Nov 05, 2009
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  Bello: Hegemony in the Philippines

  

  

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  Paper delivered at the plenary session of the 2009 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society held at the PSSC Building on 16 October 2009

  Walden Bello ZSpace page
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• Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
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  Bond: Climate Change Center

  

  

  Commentary

  On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s activism, global climate governance is grid-locked and it seems clear that no meaningful deal can be sealed in Copenhagen on December 18.

  Patrick Bond ZSpace page
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• Friday, Oct 23, 2009
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  Bello: Deglobalization

  

  

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  The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, globalization has been terminally discredited in the last two years. As the much-heralded process of financial and trade interdependence went into reverse, it became the transmission belt not of prosperity but of economic crisis and collapse.

  Walden Bello ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
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  Weisbrot: Role For IMF?

  

  

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  Rescued from a state of near-irrelevance by the world recession and an infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars (mostly from the U.S., Europe, and Japan), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now thinking of expanding its role into previously uncharted territory. In Istanbul for the fall meetings of the IMF, Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said: "Given the costs associated with reserves accumulation, there is clearly a need for reliable emergency financing and hence for a global lender of last resort. The fund has the potential to serve as an effective and reliable provider of such insurance."

  Mark Weisbrot ZSpace page
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• Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
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  Tuathail: CCFTA

  

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  I spent a good part of the other week watching the performances of Liberals and Conservatives in the Canadian House of Commons as they debated Bill C-23, implementing legislation of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA).

  Micheál Tuathail ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
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  Chomsky: Coups, UNASUR, U.S.

  

  

  ZMag Article

  Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29

  Noam Chomsky ZSpace page
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  Mcgehee: Africa: Bearing the Brunt

  

  

  ZNet Article

  An Interview with Demba Moussa Dembélé on Africa's Postion in Corporate-led Globalization

  Michael Mcgehee ZSpace page
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• Monday, Sep 28, 2009
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  Mcgehee: The Food Wars

  

  

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  A review of Walden Bello's latest book, The Food Wars. Verso, 2009, 176 pp.

  Michael Mcgehee ZSpace page
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• Sunday, Sep 27, 2009
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  Weisbrot: G20 Fantasy

  

  

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  The G20 is not a system of international economic co-operation, or a board of directors, or a governing council for the global economy, to pick some of the terms that have appeared in the media. It is a forum where the heads of state of 20 economies discuss some important economic issues. It has very little ability to directly implement its decisions.

  Mark Weisbrot ZSpace page
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• Saturday, Sep 26, 2009
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  Schechter: G20

  

  

  Commentary

  Can Obama Help Forge A Global Consensus for Deep Economic Change?

  Danny Schechter ZSpace page
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• Friday, Sep 25, 2009
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  Davidson: Pittsburgh G20

  

  

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  Carl Davidson's First-Hand Reports from the G20 Events in Pittsburgh

  Carl Davidson ZSpace page
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• Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
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  Bond: 'Seattle' Copenhagen

  

  

  Commentary

  Here's a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects to communities, or instead pay through other mechanisms that must provide financing quickly, transparently and decisively, to achieve genuine income compensation plus renewable energy to the masses.

  Patrick Bond ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Sep 03, 2009
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  Weisbrot: Millions to Honduras Coup

  

  

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  The IMF is undergoing an unprecedented expansion of its access to resources, possibly reaching a trillion dollars. This week the European Union committed $175 billion, $67 billion more than even the $108 billion that Washington agreed to fork over after a tense standoff between the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration earlier this summer.

  Mark Weisbrot ZSpace page
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• Saturday, Aug 29, 2009
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  Houtart: Impact Of Crisis

  

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  Much has been said on the impacts of the crisis on the fundamentals of the economy and its social consequences, because of the artificial and unequal character of growth and its proven vulnerability, affecting both developed and developing countries. However, the present situation, compared with other financial crises, in particular that of the 1930s, is characterized by a convergence of various crises of food, energy, climate with combined social consequences on employment, poverty and migrations.

  Francois Houtart ZSpace page
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• Friday, Aug 14, 2009
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  Albert: WSF?

  

  

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  Kipping: You have participated in several World Social Forums (WSF). What hopes and expectations did you have? Have they been fulfilled?

  Michael Albert ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Jul 30, 2009
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  Johnson: Liquidate Empire

  

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  However ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it.

  Chalmers Johnson ZSpace page
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  Evans: Humanist Priorities

  

  

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  In this article I argue that contemporary organised humanism has its priorities wrong. It focuses most, if not all, of its resources on the negative impact religion has on independent thought whilst virtually ignoring how much powerful organisations like corporations undermine free thinking.

  Mark Evans ZSpace page
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• Saturday, Jul 25, 2009
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  Weisbrot: Trade Adjustments and Stimulus Packages

  

  

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  Global trade flows and the economic stimulus policies of individual national economies will play an important role in the recovery from the current global recession. This is especially true of the world's two largest economies, the United States and China.

  Mark Weisbrot ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Jul 23, 2009
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  Mestrum: Fight Global Income Inequality

  

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  Since the international organisations put poverty on the political agenda in the 1990s, little has been heard about inequality. This is quite amazing, since it was the income gap between rich and poor countries that gave rise to the development project after the Second World War. The first UN resolutions on development do not mention poverty, but they do refer to the huge inequalities between developed and under-developed countries.

  Francine Mestrum ZSpace page
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• Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
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  Houtart: Developing Countries

  

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  This year is likely to be the worst for the global economy since World War II, with the World Bank estimating a decline of up to 2%. Even developing countries that did everything right – and had far better macroeconomic and regulatory policies than the United States did – are feeling the impact. Largely as a result of a precipitous fall in exports, China is likely to continue to grow, but at a much slower pace than the 11-12% annual growth of recent years. Unless something is done, the crisis will throw as many as 200 million additional people into poverty.

  Francois Houtart ZSpace page
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• Monday, Jun 15, 2009
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  Weissman: IMF Accountability

  

  Commentary

  Seeking to avoid a direct up-or-down vote on a proposal to send $108 billion to the International Monetary Fund, the administration, at the last moment, had the money stuck into a supplemental appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Robert Weissman ZSpace page
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  Sinclair: Pig Business

  

  ZNet Article

  Film review: Pig Business by Tracy Worcester

  Ian Sinclair ZSpace page
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  George: 21st Century Challenges

  

  ZNet Article

  When this lecture series was decided by La Casa Encendida, I suppose the organisers did not expect the challenges of the XXI century to be quite so serious. The title of the whole series of this Cycle is “Los Retos del Siglo XXI”, [“Challenges of the 21st century”] and certainly the siglo XXI has got off to a very bad start. Another world is certainly necessary, that is the other title of these series. I think with the multiple crises that we have before us today we also have a tremendous opportunity, but this window of opportunity is not going to last very long. I want to say right away that I am supposed to talk about democracy, and indirectly I shall, but democracy doesn’t mean much in a context where huge and growing populations, hundreds of millions of people are living in increasing poverty. Democracy doesn’t mean much if you are hungry or homeless, or have no health care or your children can’t go to school, even if you have a vote, democracy is not effective.

  Susan George ZSpace page
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