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A GREAT MOVEMENT IS BORN: Global Justice Movement Finds Fertile Ground at the Asia Social Forum |
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Tuesday, 28 January 2003 |
By Praful Bidwai
This editorial was published in The Hindustan Times, January 10, 2003
The just-concluded Asian Social Forum (ASF) saw a unique confluence of grassroots social movements, people's organisations and radical NGOs which interrogate globalisation and counterpose equality, human rights and justice to the shop-worn agendas of transnational big business.
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Europe’s Trade Agenda at the WTO and the Positions of ASEM Developing Countries |
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Friday, 13 September 2002 |
By Aileen Kwa
Introduction
The European Union (EU) has a clear trade agenda vis a vis developing countries, that is to gain access to markets for their corporations. This trade agenda was in the past addressed through trade Rounds to lower tariffs at the borders. Increasingly, given that tariff levels are generally low, the barriers the EU are now targeting are ‘behind the border’ measures, such as domestic regulation which it perceives to be restrictive towards foreign companies.
The European Union uses several different complementary forums to attain their corporate driven goals. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a significant arena, particularly given its role in setting binding multilateral trade rules with ‘teeth’ as a result of the WTO’s dispute settlement body. The WTO provides the policy framework needed for EU’s corporations to legitimately demand market access in other countries.
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AVERTING PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR USE: Not in Desperation, Nor in Despair |
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Tuesday, 27 August 2002 |
By Manpreet Sethi
With Indian and Pakistani military forces placed as they presently are, it is not surprising that the threat of nuclear war is being talked about so casually and with such a normality that is totally amiss. In fact, the manner in which Pakistan is showing off its nuclear arsenal is so bizarre that certainly sane Pakistanis could not have given adequate thought to a matter so grim.
Several think tanks across the world have conducted elaborate calculations of the numbers that would be immediately vaporized if a nuclear bomb was to be dropped on a city and those unfortunate enough to survive and live through the unimaginable days after. The miseries wreaked on any populace would be of such unimaginable proportions and so widespread in terms of time and space that one wonders what could possibly be the motivations that could animate anybody to push the nuclear button.
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Tuesday, 13 August 2002 |
New Left Review 16, July-August 2002
The Filipino analyst and organizer of Focus on the Global South, veteran of the years of Allende and Marcos, discusses the prospects for the World Social Forum after September 11, arguing for the need to link protests against the IMF and WTO to campaigns against US military expansion.
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Continuity And Change In the Aftermath of September 11 |
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Friday, 10 May 2002 |
By Joseph Gerson
Paper Presented at Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) Roundtable on,
"War and peace, despair and hope: Re-Positioning Asian Intellectuals After 9-11"
Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR, May 8-9, 2002
I am grateful to ARENA for the opportunity to participate and learn from you in this conference. These are unusually challenging and dangerous times, and while I have some good news and some bad news to share, I am afraid that it is the latter which will be the focus of my remarks.
Has the world been changed by the September 11 attacks or the Bush Administration's global crusade? The obvious answer, as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told us roughly two thousand years ago, is no and yes. A person cannot step in the same river twice. Change is the constant, even as there is continuity within change. In my few minutes I want to point to several dimensions of continuity and of radical change in what can be described as the era of post-Cold War U.S. empire.
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