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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.

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

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
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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
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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...

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
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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...

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

Commentary, July, 24 2003 Aziz Choudry
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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
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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 ...

Commentary Choudry: Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming: Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale

Commentary, June, 14 2003 Aziz Choudry
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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...

Commentary Choudry: Shodown in Sacramento? Bush's Biotech Bullies Vs. The World

Commentary, May, 30 2003 Aziz Choudry
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The Bush Administration, in the interests of Corporate America (how can anyone tell where one ends and the other begins?) is on the warpath again. Like its Òwar on terrorÓ, it is fighting on several fronts.

Commentary Choudry: Salvation Through Consumption?

Commentary, May, 09 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Silly me!

Commentary Choudry: Neutral, Inclusive

Commentary, April, 19 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Located in the USA's corn belt, St Louis is hometown to Monsanto and several other leading biotech corporations. Bob Holden, Missouri's Republican governor, wants the state to be a world leader in "life sciences".

Commentary Choudry: "Groping For The Exact Term"

Commentary, March, 30 2003 Aziz Choudry
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Semantics, US Soldiers and The Philippines

Commentary Choudry: "Groping For The Exact Term": Semantics, US Soldiers and The Philippines

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

As we mobilize against the murderous onslaught on Iraq we cannot afford to ignore US military operations in other parts of the world.

Commentary Choudry: The WTO, War and Globalisation: Forever New Frontiers

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

ÒForever New FrontiersÓ. Was this the motto of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, James Cook, the conquistadores as they sought new territories to conquer, resources to plunder and control and peoples to exterminate or enslave for the empir...

Commentary Choudry: The Paydirt of Paranoia

Commentary, February, 21 2003 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

It seems this commentary did not go out properly last night, so I am remailing it. Apologies to anyone who gets it twice!

Commentary Choudry: Namecalling: Mapping Colonial Fantasies

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

Since childhood, I have been fascinated by maps and placenames. But lately I have been wondering whether health warnings should be placed on maps and signs for streets, towns and landmarks just as parents are warned about the possible effects on c...

Commentary Choudry: Bordering On Insanity

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

Bordering On Insanity

Commentary Choudry: Finding Voice: Telling Our Own Stories

Commentary, December, 20 2002 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

I seem to have been spending quite a bit of time lately urging other activist friends to write more. Many already are. And I regularly ask myself why I write.

Commentary Choudry: Trials and Tribulations: Supporting Our Comrades

Commentary, December, 10 2002 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Last month, in the Opera House in the small Vermont town of Plainfield, I attended a fundraising evening of drama and music for the legal costs of Institute For Social Ecology alumnus Camilo Viveiros. It was one of a number of fundraisers held to ...

Commentary Choudry: Sweet and Dangerous Music: Soundtrack For A Secret Country

Commentary, November, 29 2002 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Music has moved many of us to act, and inspires us in our work for justice and liberation. Close friends and comrades tell of how music has helped form, frame and inflame their political consciousness and hunger for justice. While much of the wor...

Commentary Choudry: APEC 2002: Americans Plot To Expand Crusade

Commentary, November, 13 2002 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

Remember APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation)? Once described by former Australian foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans as Òfour adjectives in search of a nounÓ, it stumbled through the 1990s into the 21st century barely alive. Espousing Òo...

Commentary Choudry: The George and Gloria Show: Philippine Progressives Under Renewed Attack

Commentary, September, 26 2002 Aziz Choudry
Choudry's ZSpace page

ÒWhen an individual commits violence against innocent civilians contrary to US interests, Bush calls him a "terroristÓ. When an individual commits violence against innocent civilians in furtherance of US interests, Bush calls him a "freedom fighte...

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