Return
to the Bad Old Days?
Guatemala and CAFTA
Xuan-Trang Ho
The
Price of Privatized "Development"
Uruguyans Learn from Bolivia, Not India
Saul Landau and Puja Patel
I'm
With Wolfowitz: Have we forgotten what the World Bank is for?
George Monbiot, Guardian
Canadian
Independence at Risk from NAFTA
letter from Canadian Labour Congress
President Ken Georgetti
Global Unions Forum on Trade and International Labour Standards
Paul
Wolfowitz: Symbol of A Global Crisis Behind and Beyond Iraq
Global Justice Ecology Project
Right
of Admission Reserved
Changes to NZ's Overseas Investment
Commission examined by Murray Horton in The Press
Stiglitz
warns of violence if Wolfowitz goes to World Bank
Robert Peston, telegraph.co.uk
Overseas
Investment Commission Bill Postcards now available
from CAFCA
Wolfowitz
Means "Wrong Direction" for World Bank
Statement Of Robert Weissman,
Director, Essential Action
Bush's
'shocking' choice of Wolfowitz for World Bank provokes outrage
Andrew Gumbel, Independent Digital
(UK) Ltd
Tube
Privatization "Huge Waste of Money"
Barrie Clement, Independent Digital
(UK)
Thai
free-trade deal clause 'aids Maori'
(unattributed media source)
Thai/NZ
Free trade deal highlights clash over service sector
Brian Fallow, NZ Herald
A Game
As Old As Empire
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Bush
Administration Will Seek to Cut $5.74 Billion in Farm Subsidies
Scott Kilman, Wall Street Journal
Free
Trade Leaves World Food in Grip of Global Giants
John Vidal, The Guardian
Sweden
and UK Economic Models Compared
George Monbiot, The Guardian
Weekly
A World
Unravels; Shifts in Apparel Trade Roil Global Economy
Tyler Marshall, Evelyn Iritani
and Marla Dickerson, Los Angeles Times
Free-trade
negotiations driven by myth of Third Way
Prue Hyman, New Zealand Herald
U.S.
Trade Tactic Splits Arab States
Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service
Argentina's
Economic Rally Defies Forecasts
Larry Rohter, New York Times
FTAA
Negotiations Miss Completion Deadline
Public Citizen
Workers
Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
Howard W. French, New York Times
Cuba
and Venezuela Sign the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas Accord
RHC
ARENA
Report Calls on Govt to Abandon the 'P-3'
Prue Hyman, Arena Media Release
Cuban
and Venezuelan Presidents to Sign Historic Alternative to FTAA Agreement
RHC
White
House can't explain lurking trade imbalance
Alan Guebert, Peoria Journal
Star
Bolivians
take on Big Oil
Will Braun, Straight Goods
Don't
Let the Dollar Take the Fall
Jeffrey E. Garten, New York Times
Seafood
Fight!
Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Krugman:
Economic Crisis a Question of When, not If
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Washington
Post (Reuters)
The
free-market fantasy
Gordon Campbell, New Zealand
Listener
Free
Fall
Nick Smith, APN
The
Coming Currency Shock
Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch
The
Fight is On:
Govt throws door wide open for international companies
CAFCA Action Alert
PPP
schemes have little to offer taxpayers
Alan J. Robb and Sue Newberry,
NZ Herald
Maritime
Union attacks free trade deals as anti-worker
MUNZ Media release
Low
wages, cruel bosses, no rights:
Migrant workers in China
Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail
Economic
Crash Imminent?
Randall Bornemann, Center for
Research on Globalization
Bearish
on Uncle Sam?
Jonathan Weisman and Ben White,
Washington Post
A tough
case ... and a long one
Brian Gaynor looks at insider
trading in Tranz Rail, NZ Herald
Stepping
stone: Opponents of 1989 FTA deal were right, for unexpected reasons
Mel Watkins, Straight Goods
U.S.
dollar heading for a collapse, ex-Clinton adviser says
James Baxter, The Vancouver Sun
Australia's
water trouble a warning to big users
Andrew MacDonald, NZ Herald
Energy
Company Pushes for Tradeable Water Rights
NZ Herald
Rivers
Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer
Jim Yardley, New York Times
Proposal
for trade in labour
Fran O'Sullivan, NZ Herald
Privatizing
NZ by stealth
Sue Newberry, The Press
Taxpayers
put at risk by hidden debt
Sue Newberry, Auckland Herald
Powerco
Sale: Tougher Rules Needed
Cafca Media Release
New Site
on Bilateral FTAs etc. announced
www.bilaterals.org
The
WTO Loses Friends on the Hill
Paul Magnusson, Business Week
Officials
wanted investment free-for-all
Vernon Small on NZ's OIC review,
Stuff
A cloud over civilization
Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy - and the
slaughter in Iraq
JK Galbraith, The Guardian
If It's Not Fair, It's Not Free!
Action guide to the Thai/NZ free
trade negotiations from Fair World Links
Financial fairydust coats Powerco share sale
"Shoeshine", National Business
Review
Aust/US FTA Still Blocked
Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor
Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
WTO Outcome A Catastrophe for Poor
Press Release from Focus on the
Global South
WTO Negotiations And The Betrayal Of The Doha Mandate
Vandana Shiva, ZNet Commentary
Sutton Should Stop Misleading NZ About WTO
Media Release from Arena
Chairman of US Federal Reserve assures Congress
wages will be kept low
World Socialist Web Site
Govt scraps investment regulator
Tim Donoghue and Kelly Sinoski, The Independent
The Fight is On
CAFCA media release on changes to NZ's Overseas Investment Act
Water wars: California's 'liquid gold' shouldn't
be entrusted to private conglomerates
Joseph W. Cotchett, San Francisco
Chronicle
Unfair Trade: U.S. Treaties Hurt the Poorest
Partners
Joseph E. Stiglitz, International
Herald Tribune
Urgent Action Needed: Govt Review of OIC
Action alert
from CAFCA
ARGENTINA:
Privatization of Trains Derailed
Marcela Valente, Inter
Press Service News Agency
How
Apex became world's hottest name in electronics
Chinese factory the secret behind $US29 DVD player
Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail
The
fate of residential consumers in the electricity market
Sue Newberry and Bill
Rosenberg, The Press
Aust-US
FTA and Intellectual Property Rights
David Richardson (Link to Research
Paper)
Thai-NZ
FTA Information Sheet
NZ Government
Report from SEEN
Pat Ranald, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
Aziz Choudry
Submission
to Aust Senate, Published by Public Citizen
Alan Clendenning, AP (The Detroit News)
News Release from PANG
(Responds with more bullying …) Stuff Website
Various Media/Business Reports on the Aust/US FTA
Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York Times
1st principles review of Overseas Investment Act
NZ Govt Media Release
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, AlterNet
A Spoonful of Sugar Helps Australia’s Medicine Go Down
ARENA Media Release
AFTINET and Opposition Party media releases on USFTA
Jane Kelsey
Statement
and Declaration by the Alliance for SP and SSM
IATP
EU
Members Want Concessions From Others As Condition for Improved Agriculture
Offer
International Trade Daily
The
World Bank Wonders About Utility Privatizations
Michael M. Phillips, Wall Street Journal
New
Reality Is Leaving Growth in the Mire
Louis Uchitelle, NYT
Rice
Bowl, Dust Bowl: Agribusiness and the Future
By Kaz
Susat, Workers World News Service
Fonterra and world agriculture: it's not just about trade
Bill
Rosenberg, speech to New Zealand Dairyworkers Union
Peter Lewis,
Editor of Workers Online
Showdown in Sacramento? Bush's Biotech Bullies Vs. The World
Dave Bleakney,
Canadian Postal Worker, Geneva
Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times
By Warren
Buffett, Washington Post
By Dean Baker, In
These Times
As Tony Blair's
licensed rebel, Short appeased the powerful and brushed the poor aside
George Monbiot,
The Guardian
The invisible hand of the American empire
The United States rigs the international economic system to its own advantage, argues the distinguished international economist Robert Hunter Wade.
Open Democracy
US free trade zone on offer - no
liberalization required
Edward Alden,
Financial Times
US Sees the Lights Go Out as States Scrimp
and Save
Roland Watson, Times/UK
U.S. Plans To Export Its "Free Market" Economy To Iraq
Neil King Jr., The Wall Street
Journal
Sheriff tells outlaws to write their own rules
Independent
(New Zealand)
Aziz Choudry, ZNet Commentary
Postwar Iraq: A Showcase for Privatization?
Philip Mattera,
Corporate Research E-Letter
The Tower of Babel, Between makeup and the Closet
Subcomandante Marcos,
La Jornada (Mexico)
by Movimento Sem
Terra; de Fato;
It's About the US & Europe Going Head-to-Head on World
Economic Dominance
By Geoffrey
Heard
John Kamau, The Nation newspaper, Nairobi
Anna Willard, Reuters
Luke Eric Peterson. IISD
Paul Craig Roberts examines outsourcing in the
“new economy”
Brian Gaynor, The Herald
George Monbiot, Guardian
Nick Mathiason, Observer
Tom Hamburger, Wall St. Journal
Alan Friedman & Thomas Crampton, International
Herald Tribune
World Bank Press Review
M Nazir Ali, Dawn Online (Pakistan
Bill Guerin, Asia Times
Murray Dobbin
Anthony Hubbard, Guyon Espiner, Sunday
Star-Times
Jason Leopold, Scoop
Committee In Solidarity with the People of El
Salvador
EU-US Trade War over GMO
Chile
Signs Trade Pact with USA
Wall St Journal
Stephen Spencer, The Nation
Mexican
Trucks Gain US-Wide Hauling Rights
Steven Greenhouse, NY Times
New
EU-US Trade War Looming Over GE
Steve Schifferes, BBC
Controls
Stall US Free Trade Pacts
Neil King, Wall St Journal
Pharma’s
Profits Explain US Trade Negotiations
Prof Brook K Baker, Health GAP
NAFTA=Death,
Say Peasant Farmers
Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service
The
Invisible Hand is Strangling the Market
Wendy Holm, Farmers Independent Weekly
Campesino
Protests to Escalate
Jason
Lange, the News (Mexico)
IMF
Requires Privatization in Nicaragua
Public Citizen
Israel #2
in Western Social Inequality
Ruth Sinai, Ha’aretz.Com
Support
Nicaragua’s Anti-Privatization Struggle
Reuters
Bechtel
Strikes Back at Bolivia
Jim Schultz, Pacific News Service
Media Release from Jim Sutton
US Farm
Group’s About-turn on Aust
Richard Cowan, Reuters
More Free
Trade, a Prescription for Decline
Murray Dobbin, Globe & Mail (Canada)
WTO Up to its Old MAI Tricks
Again
Paper by Dr W Rosenberg
As self-serving a load of old codswallop as you’ll ever read – by Robert Zoellick
Washington Trade Daily
Prof. Jane Kelsey, NZ Herald
Research from Timothy Wise and Kevin Gallagher, Tufts University
Letter from the NZ Consulate in Los Angeles
Ezequiel Burge and Heather Stewart, Guardian
From MFAT Website
Alan Griffiths looks at Australia’s exposure to Enron-style practices – Management Today
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Council of Canadians
Public Citizen
The US Farm Bill –Food First Coalition
The Deliberate Destruction of Agriculture – Roland-Pierre Parinauz, Le Monde Diplomatique
Uncritical report from mainstream media on ASEAN/NZ FTA
Jane Kelsey
Aileen Kwa
Charlotte Denny, Guardian
William Greider, The Nation
Jason Nissė, Independent News
(Link to official document)
George Monbiot on WSSD
NZ Herald
Joseph Rebello, Dow Jones Newswires
Sanjay Suri
George Monbiot, Guardian
OK it’s Australia, but it applies to NZ (and elsewhere) too …
A brief definition for activists
Can East Timor survive globalization? - Inside Indonesia
Nancy Gibbs, Time.com (!)
Adrian Garcia, Workers World
Robert Schubert, Agribusiness Examiner
Guardian Editorial
Sarwat Viqar, ZNet
Mike Bygrave, Observer
Praful Bidwa, Hindustan Times
Mark Townsend and Jason Burke, The Observer
John Pilger
Peter Fritsch, Wall St Journal
Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
Greg Palast, New Internationalist
Vandana Shiva critiques the World Summit for Sustainable Development
Saul Landau’s new film
Vandana Shiva takes issue with
Amartya Sen
History Debunks Free Trade Myth
Did the IMF Cause a Famine in
Malawi?
Comment from the Age
The motive force behind US foreign policy
Znet Commentary by Aziz Choudry
MFAT-CTU “Consultation” on
GATS
Export at any Cost: Oxfam’s
Free Trade Recipe for the Third
World
Dr. Vandana Shiva
To roll back the globalization
process – By Dr W Rosenberg
For worst Transnational operating
in NZ – by Aziz Choudry, Znet
No Trade Bonus From
Singapore/NZ Agreement
Independent, April 17
Sutton’s Press Release
Disaster Follows
Globalization - coming to
your town?
Critics fear new trade agreement
could restrict powers of city
Governments – by Sherry Peters
Thought Bill Birch and his privatization agenda
had gone away?
By Bill Rosenberg
For Bankers - by Barbara Rehm
For Promised US Textile Package
Water Privatization –
Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ
Backgrounder from the Water Pressure Group
(includes solidarity message from South Africa!)
Auckland’s Water Pressure Group (includes a
grumpy response from Judith Tizard)
The Cure is Worse than the
Disease
Damning economic analysis of NZ’s reforms
1984-2002 by Larry Elliot (The Guardian)
Argentina – Murder or Suicide?
Argentina and the World Bank
By Aziz Choudry - ZNet
Local views on AFTA