Monday, October 6, 2003
Cancun - Once Again, the WTO Proves It's Own Moral Bankruptcy
This is how the WTO works, in a nutshell. It is a rich man's club, run entirely for the benefit of rich transnational corporations (TNCs) in order to make them richer, so that some of these riches will find their way back into government and campaign coffers to keep the whole cycle going until it...
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Saturday, October 4, 2003
Bush-Enron-Arnie = Bankrupt California.
It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scandal. The wannabe governor has yet to deny that on May...
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Monday, September 15, 2003
Two Victories to Start the Week
Don't let the media fool you. The collapse of the trade talks in Cancun is NOT a disaster for developing countries. And the Swedes rejection of the Euro is NOT a disaster for Sweden. The Cancun talks collapsed because the developing nations walked out. They upped and left. And good on 'em! Why did...
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Friday, August 22, 2003
When the Lights Went Out - A Lesson in Free Market Failure
This was written by Greg Palast on Friday, August 15, 2003. I think it speaks for itself. POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells...
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Thursday, August 7, 2003
A New Look at the "Third World"
Let's start with that bloody phrase! The "Third World" was surely dreamed up by Western / Northern people to put pooer countries down, semantically as well as economically. A more recent version is the "Developing World", but again, it's slanted. Who's doing the developing? The wealthy nations. And...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2003
The Eco-Crisis
Today - right now - we are taking the planet into completely unchartered territory. The temperatures and CO2 levels around the world have definitely not been this high for 1,000 years; and we're starting to hit levels that have not been seen for at least 12,000,000 years. From the days of Newton,...
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Monday, August 4, 2003
Exploiting the Farmers
Part of the globalisation / free trade paradigm involves encouraging farmers in developing countries to grow crops for export. Coffee, bananas, and sugar cane are all grown by Third World (though the term Majority World fits better) farmers for the export markets. Which means that these crops take...
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Thursday, July 31, 2003
A Few Myths Busted
Globalisation is all about trade! No it's not. Globalisation is about the denial of decision-making powers at the local and national levels in virtually every country except for the USA. Globalisation is all about poverty reduction through increased economic activity! No it's not. Global economic...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
A New Lease of Life!
I'd now like to take you behind the media spin, the dense language, the semantics and the lies, deep into the belly of the beast, and reveal it for what it really is. Previously, the words were not mine. From here on in, they will be. For I have had a priviliged insight over the last three weeks...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
This Blog Is Now Complete
It has reached the end of it's evolution. It is where I wanted it to get to. I will leave it up until it falls from the top 1,000. Then I will delete it. If I remember.
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