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Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...What a load of rubbish
Jon Hughes
1st November, 2006
The rise of free newspapers means that hundreds of thousands of trees are pulped each week to provide us with disposable pap more...
New Emperors, Old Clothes
Vandana Shiva
1st July, 2005
Anyone serious about making poverty history needs to understand where poverty actually comes from and what it really is. more...
Zoos - 20th century anachronism or biodiversity preservation tool?
Daniel Turner, Dr Miranda F Stevenson B.A., MBA.,
1st March, 2004
Are zoos an essential tool for preserving biodiversity in the 21st century or a Noah's-Ark-style anachronism riddled with woodworm and sinking fast? more...
Playing Dirty at the WTO
Mark Lynas
1st June, 2003
Locked out of some meetings. Not even invited to others. And then all the decisions are made after you’ve left. It’s all in a day’s work for ‘developing’ World delegates at the WTO. By Mark Lynasmore...
Free Trade TM
Derrick Jensen
1st June, 2003
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was. more...
World Sold
Simon Retallack
1st June, 2003
In September the World Trade Organisation will be holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what is at stake. more...
Cancun: Why Should You Care?
Paul Kingsnorth
1st June, 2003
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun. more...Puppet Show
Matilda Lee
1st June, 2003
Matilda Lee explains how democracy is bypassed as multinationals pushchanges in trade law through the labrynthine corridors of the EU more...
Economies of scale - self-sufficiency through localising business
Andrew Simms
1st June, 2003
Where trade is concerned, one size does not fit all. Andrew Simms argues the case for economic self-sufficiency through localisation more...
Globalisation: the dream vs the reality
Dele Oguntimoju
1st November, 2002
Globalisation sells Africans the Western dream. Immigration policies tell them they can’t have it. Where, Dele Oguntimoju asks, is the sense in that? more...
Government refuses to create clean technology fund
News
30th November, 1999
The Treasury signalled yesterday that money raised from the sale of carbon credits will not go into a clean technology fund as the EC had requested but instead be diverted to general treasury funds. more...
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