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Znet Article Choudry: Making a Killing

Znet Article, September, 12 2008 Aziz Choudry
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In the late 1990s, well before Bush’s ‘war on terror’, New Zealand TV screened a particularly awful US action drama called ‘Soldier of Fortune Inc.’, about an elite team (composed of former US Marines, Delta Force, CIA, British SAS personnel) who ...

Commentary Choudry: A Highly Unsuitable Candidate: New Zealand Government Is Not Fit to Sit on UN Human Rights Council

Commentary, October, 22 2007 Aziz Choudry
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The New Zealand Government must be stopped. At home and abroad.

Znet Article Choudry: Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang

Znet Article, July, 23 2005 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes. Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort a...

Commentary Choudry: Operation Enduring Free Trade

Commentary, May, 22 2004 Aziz Choudry
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While US forces bombed, murdered and maimed their way to "freedom" and "democracy" in Falluja and across Iraq, George Bush reiterated his vision for the Middle East to the US public on April 13th, 2004:

Commentary Choudry: The Elephant, the Rabbit, the Cobra and the Gold

Commentary, March, 29 2004 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Every time I visit Bangkok I see it. "Power is nothing without control" reads an advertising billboard for a transnational tyre company near Chulalongkorn University. This February, PirelliÕs slogan summed up the US philosophy for its proposed bil...

Commentary Choudry: Bush and Arroyo: Big Brother, Little Sister

Commentary, March, 06 2004 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

The similarities between George W Bush and Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and the electioneering underway in both countries are both surreal and striking.

Commentary Choudry: Laser-Guided Liberalization and Latin America

Commentary, January, 31 2004 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Are bilateral deals the Òsmart bombsÓ of US trade and investment policy?

Zmag Article Choudry: Bilateral Trade and Investment Deals: BITs a serious challenge for global justice movements

Zmag Article, December, 01 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

We cannot afford to bask in the movement successes at the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks at Cancun. With echoes of Bush’s “either with us or against us” dualism, U.S. Trade Represe...

Commentary Choudry: Blood, Oil, Guns And Bullets

Commentary, November, 28 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Terror, invasion, occupation and militarization are hallmarks of the US-led corporate recolonisation of Iraq. But they have long been the hallmarks of colonialism and imperialism the world over.

Commentary Choudry: Blood, Oil, Guns And Bullets

Commentary, November, 20 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Terror, invasion, occupation and militarization are hallmarks of the US-led corporate recolonisation of Iraq. But they have long been the hallmarks of colonialism and imperialism the world over.

Commentary Choudry: The Emperor Goes To Asia and Talks Terror

Commentary, October, 28 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Fresh from visiting CaliforniaÕs Governor-Terminator, His Imperial Majesty jetted off to Asia É

Commentary Choudry: Tarzan, Indiana Jones and Conservation International's Global Greenwash Machine

Commentary, October, 17 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Colin Powell says that its work is "amazing". In 2001, it received what the media dubbed the biggest ever grant to an environmental organization - US $261 million spread over 10 years. Its website proclaims: "A passionate few can make the differen...

Znet Article Choudry: Interviewing Aziz Choudry

Znet Article, September, 23 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

ZNet: Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? "Effective Strategies In Confronting Transnational Corporations" is the product of a collaborative research project which I recently coordinated for t...

Commentary Choudry: Trade Talk: Speaking in Tongues

Commentary, September, 08 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

ItÕs enough to make your eyes glaze over.

Commentary Choudry: Proposed WTO Competition Policy Agreement

Commentary, August, 25 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

In the lead-up to SeptemberÕs Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, much of the opposition to the so-called Singapore Issues (or new issues) has focussed on attempts to kickstart negotiations on a multilateral investment agreement at the World Trade Orga...

Commentary Choudry: WTO In Montreal

Commentary, August, 01 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

In early June, Canada's trade minister, Pierre Pettigrew exultantly announced the death of the "anti-globalization" movement. "I draw great satisfaction out of the fact that the phenomenon of anti-globalization has completely disappeared", he crow...

Znet Article Choudry: Satisfaction Not Guaranteed

Znet Article, July, 30 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

In early June, Canada's trade minister, Pierre Pettigrew exultantly announced the death of the "anti-globalization" movement. "I draw great satisfaction out of the fact that the phenomenon of anti-globalization has completely disappeared", he crow...

Commentary Choudry: Lurching towards Cancun: Egypt WTO Mini-Ministerial

Commentary, July, 24 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

With a January 1, 2005 deadline for the conclusion of World Trade Organisation negotiations fast approaching, the heat is on to overcome an embarrassing stalemate before the Fifth WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun from 10-14 September. The state ...

Commentary Choudry: WTO Charm Offensive

Commentary, June, 30 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

The "Fix It or Nix It", and "Shrink or Sink" sign-on statements about the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been circulating around the world for over three years now. In that time, there have been no signs that the WTO is going to "shrink" or c...

Commentary Choudry: Bilateral Investment And Trade Deals No Fairytale

Commentary, June, 23 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

The recent explosion of bilateral investment and trade agreements and investor-state disputes is of growing concern. Many mobilisations against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) aim to stop attempts by industrialised countries to kickstart talks ...

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