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Walden Bello interviewed for Japonesia Review by OGURA TOSHIMARU In their rhetoric they basically say they are out to have better relations between the north and the south. They want to sav...
This map illustrates the different ways and forms by which the United States has established its military basing in the Philippines. It shows the locations of the increasing number of military exe...
Jayati Ghosh*   It is now clear that the prolonged party for international finance capital is over, at least for now. The US financial structure is crumbling, possibly even collap...
C. P. Chandrasekhar*   To the superstitious, recent developments in global financial markets were possible reminders that the Ides of March had arrived. To the more rational, they...
Jayati Ghosh*   There is no doubt about it: the US financial structure is crumbling, possibly even collapsing. The collapse of a major Wall Street bank and the enormous bailouts t...
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Focus on Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, the political economy of globalisation and peoples resistance, and alternatives to global capitalism.

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China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 25 February 2008
china-dottieEdited by Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji

China's New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective

China's global expansion is much talked about, but usually from the viewpoint of the West. This unique collection of essays, written by scholars
and activists from China and the global South, provides diverse views on the challenges faced by Africa, Latin America and Asia as a result of China's rise as a significant global economic power. Chinese aid, trade and investments - driven by the needs of its own economy - present both threats and opportunities for the South, requiring a nuanced analysis that goes beyond simplistic caricatures of ‘good' and ‘evil'.
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WATER DEMOCRACY:RECLAIMING PUBLIC WATER IN ASIA PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 28 December 2007

water-reportWATER DEMOCRACY:RECLAIMING PUBLIC WATER IN ASIA

ESSAY COLLECTION PRESENTED BY THE RECLAIMING PUBLIC WATER NETWORK

NOVEMBER 2007


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Annual Report 2006 PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
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The Focus Annual Report 2006 has just been released.

Please click here to download a copy  14.5 MB

 
At the door to all the East PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 22 November 2007

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'At the Door of all the East': The Philippines in United States Military Strategy

This report seeks to document and explain why and how the United States has been attempting to re-establish its military presence in the Philippines in the period beginning in 2001. Diverging from the common explanation attributing increased US military presence in the country to the so-called “global war on terror,” this report instead locates US actions in the Philippines and in the Asia-Pacific region in the larger context of the US’ objectives and strategy.

The self-avowed aim of the US is to perpetuate its position of being the world’s sole superpower in order to re-order the world. Its strategy to perpetuate its status is to prevent the rise of any rivals.  To do this, it is seeking the capacity to deter and defeat potential enemies anywhere in the world by retaining and realigning  its “global posture” or its ability to operate across the globe through its worldwide network of forward-deployed troops, bases, andaccess agreements. Today, the US believes that, of all its potential rivals, China poses the greatest threat and must therefore be contained before it becomes even more powerful.

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Land Strugggles:LRAN Briefing Paper Series PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 22 October 2007
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“Three-quarters of the world’s 852 million men and women suffering from hunger are found in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their survival. Most of them are landless farmers or have such tiny or unproductive plots of land that they cannot feed their families”. This was the assessment of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released at the second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in March 2006.
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