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Choudry: Fight For Country
Commentary, June, 29 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Some strange strange people inhabit this land
Choudry: The Asian Development Bank - "Governing" the Pacific?
Commentary, June, 11 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) in adopting a policy of governance in October 1995, claims to be the first international financial institution to have a board-approved official position on 'good governance'.
Choudry: ÒdemocracyÓ Can Never Take Root On Stolen Land
Commentary, May, 06 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
I keep seeing books, articles and correspondence which refer to a Òpost-colonial worldÓ. Which world is that? Hand me a telescope. It doesnÕt seem to be in this galaxy.
Choudry: “democracy†Can Never Take Root On Stolen Land
Commentary, May, 06 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
I keep seeing books, articles and correspondence which refer to a “post-colonial worldâ€. Which world is that? Hand me a telescope. It doesn’t seem to be in this galaxy.
Choudry: Forestry Giant Cut To Size At Award Ceremony
Commentary, May, 01 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
It's that time of year again. The winner of the Roger Award for the worst transnational corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2001 was named at an open-air evening event in Auckland on Friday April 12th.
Choudry: Playing With Children's Lives A Tried and Tested Tactic for Australian Government
Commentary, April, 02 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
"I regard this as one of the most disturbing practices I've come across", Australia's Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Philip Ruddock told media at the time.
Choudry: Still Under Wraps: Official Information Laws Keep Free Trade Details Away From Prying Public Eyes
Commentary, March, 07 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
I don't know if he still uses it, but as a Member of Parliament in New Zealand, before being inflicted on the rest of the world through the WTO, one of Mike Moore's favourite expressions was "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."
Choudry: Whose Beat Should We Dance To?
Znet Article, February, 27 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
One cannot help wondering how much of the agenda of the critiques of the new economic order is set by those setting the terms of the new economic order itself." wrote Indian labour rights activist Radha D'Souza in 1995 (Parallel People's APEC: Two...
Choudry: To Beard Or Not To Beard Ð ThatÕs Not The Question
Commentary, February, 19 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Now that weÕre all supposed to be Americans as the fight against Òthe evil onesÓ expands, a recent incident has reminded me that some of us, wherever we may live, are just, as George Bush said recently, ÒPakisÓ.
Choudry: To Beard Or Not To Beard – That’s Not The Question
Commentary, February, 19 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
Now that we’re all supposed to be Americans as the fight against “the evil ones†expands, a recent incident has reminded me that some of us, wherever we may live, are just, as George Bush said recently, “Pakisâ̈́...
Choudry: Same Formula, Same Medicine, Different Chemist
Commentary, January, 30 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
It might not quite be a case of Pete Townshend's "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" but the changing of the guard at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) later this year is unlikely to make any real difference to developing countries sufferin...
Choudry: All This "civil Society" Talk Takes Us Nowhere
Commentary, January, 15 2002
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
If there's one phrase I could do with hearing less of during 2002, it's "civil society". I'm not alone. Many of my friends, community activists and organisers in a number of countries also cringe at the ritualized, ubiquitous usage of the phrase....
Choudry: Mekim Na Savvy: Bougainville - Small Nation, Big Message
Commentary, December, 11 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
These days we are swamped by information about the impact of corporate capitalism, structural adjustment, and the power and influence of transnational corporations. We are bludgeoned with propaganda about the inevitability of globalisation, of the...
Choudry: CanadaÕs Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera ThobaniÕs speech and her paper ÒWar...
Choudry: Canada’s Dirty War Over Words
Commentary, November, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
My October visit to Canada was overshadowed by the vicious demonisation and vilification of a friend. ZNet has already posted a copy of University of British Columbia academic and social justice activist Sunera Thobani’s speech and her pa...
Choudry: Advance Australia Fair?
Commentary, November, 08 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
In historyÕs page let every stage Advance Australia Fair
Choudry: Prising Open The Pacific: New Trade Deals Reflect Old Agendas
Commentary, October, 27 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
The winds of change, so the clichŽ goes, are blowing across the Pacific. Yet looking at the background to two regional trade agreements launched in August makes me think that sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Choudry: Mike's Masquerades
Commentary, August, 25 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
"The tide is high but I'm holding on, I'm gonna be your number one, I'm not the kind of guy who gives up just like that..." Mike Moore, two-thirds of the way through his stint as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation is crooning to the ...
Choudry: Bringing It All Back Home
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
"We are faced with a two-fold challenge, to struggle as best we can to deal with the immediate consequences of globalisation. Secondly, and more difficult, to contextualise those problems within the 500-year-and-more history of the culture of colo...
Choudry: We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
Commentary, June, 21 2001
Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page
YouÕve got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly hatching binding bilateral investment dea...
