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Healy: No Technofix for the Third World
Commentary, September, 24 2009
Sean Healy
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Humans can make all kinds of nifty things - the axe, the wheel, the spinning jenny, the aeroplane, the pill, the Pentium III, vanilla ice cream - and can achieve all sorts of magical things with them.
Healy: All the way with FTA?
Commentary, July, 17 2003
Sean Healy
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When they met over steaks and beer at the US president's Texas ranch, the discussion between John Howard and George Bush turned quickly to the Australian government's ÒrewardÓ for participating in the Iraq war.
Healy: Another Globalisation Is Possible
Commentary, November, 23 2002
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
FLORENCE -- It was always going to be a recipe for chaos. Take 40,000 European leftists, fractious at the best of times, shoe-horn them into a Renaissance era Italian city and tell them to discuss, across half a dozen languages, the state of the w...
Healy: Angola: The Crisis You Aren't Hearing About
Commentary, May, 29 2002
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
Out of sight of the world, a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions is unfolding in Angola, as perhaps hundreds of thousands of people flee the "grey zones", the 90% of the country which have until now been closed to outsiders, including huma...
Healy: Argentina's market-enforced crisis
Commentary, February, 16 2002
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
Argentina's tumultuous December - in which a general strike by unions against a brutal budget lead to days of demonstrations, the storming of the Presidential Palace, the desperate helicopter flight out by its then-resident and a succession of fiv...
Healy: Mai Rises From The Dead
Commentary, December, 15 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
In B-grade splatter films, even after the evil villain has been sliced, diced and dunked in lava, you just know he'll be back for the sequel. Apparently it's the same with corporate plots to take over the world -- because the Multilateral Agreemen...
Healy: Aids Fight Boosted By Big Pharma's Defeat
Commentary, December, 01 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
There's not often something to celebrate on World AIDS Day, December 1, but there might be this year: a small, much fought-over clause in a World Trade Organisation declaration may signify a turning of the tide, at least insofar as poor peoples' a...
Healy: The Empire wants war, not justice
Commentary, November, 07 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
Among all the words the Bush administration has used to describe the September 11 terrorist attacks -- "atrocity", "outrage", "act of evil" -- one phrase has been conspicuously missing: "crime against humanity".
Healy: Our "globalisation" against yours
Commentary, October, 14 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
Dear Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Union,
Healy: No technofix for the Third World
Commentary, October, 04 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
Humans can make all kinds of nifty things - the axe, the wheel, the spinning jenny, the aeroplane, the pill, the Pentium III, vanilla ice cream - and can achieve all sorts of magical things with them.
Healy: Empty promises don't feed poor children
Commentary, June, 23 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
A funny thing happened on the way to the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of rich country governments suddenly discovered that their restrictions on market access for poor countries' goo...
Healy: Is Globalization Inevitable
Commentary, April, 15 2001
Sean Healy
Healy's ZSpace page
ÒThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.Ó Ñ Roger ÒVerbalÓ Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects, 1995. ÒM1 can be as big as it likesÓ, someone recently said to me, Òbut isn't opposing globalisati...
