Poverty, Global Trade Justice, and the Roots of Terrorism

Yes Magazine
To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former “economic hit man”
by John Perkins
The following is adapted from Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Random House, 2009:
Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and [...]

Fall-out from EPA negotiations: Africa on the brink of disintegration

Third World Network Africa
 African Charter Article# 20: All peoples shall have the right to existence and self determination and the right to free themselves from the bonds of domination.
 Summary & Comment:  Two more regional economic groupings are at risk as more individual African countries sign up economic partnership agreements. Blocs that are increasingly thrown into [...]

Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?

New York Times
By HERMAN J. COHEN
THE conflict in eastern Congo over the past 12 years has been as much a surrogate war between Congo and neighboring Rwanda as an internal ethnic insurgency, as a United Nations report underscored last week. The only way to end a war that has caused five million deaths and forced [...]

‘Battle of Seattle’ should spur Congress to help hurting U.S. workers by revising NAFTA

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Fresno Bee
MARK WEISBROT:
The long-awaited [  ]“Battle in Seattle” opens Sept. 19-26 in movie theaters across the country.
It’s a rare combination of high drama and history-making events as they actually happened when thousands of protesters shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle nearly nine years ago.

Celebrate, Don’t Mourn, Collapse of WTO Talks

Common Dreams
by Robert Weissman
Predictably, the cheerleaders for corporate globalization are bemoaning the collapse of World Trade Organization negotiations.
“This is a very painful failure and a real setback for the global economy when we really needed some good news,” said Peter Mandelson, the European Union’s trade commissioner.

TRADE: New World Order in Doha’s Wake

By Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA, Aug 1 (IPS) – The standoff between China and India, the world’s two fastest growing economies, and the United States not only buried the last attempt to save the Doha Round, but also demonstrated changes in the balance of power since the WTO was created in 1995, say observers.

One cheer for global trade talks

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The fact that the WTO negotiations failed over an issue that concerns the global poor and those who stand to be hurt rather than helped by globalization reflects a new distribution of economic power in the world.
By Sandra Polaski*
July 30, 2008
Trade ministers failed again this week to agree on the main [...]

”EPAs Are Not About Partnership”

InterPres Service
The economic partnership agreements (EPAs) currently being negotiated between Europe and its former colonies in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions are not about equal partnerships but about enabling ‘‘big giant Europe to gain better access to African markets’’ More

CAFOD says Free Trade Agreement will destroy poor farmers’ jobs

International Catholic News
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) yesterday expressed concern that this month’s full implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will result in job losses for poor Mexican farmers and make their wages worthless. More