Focus on Trade Index

 

2002

Issues Number 74 to 83

Number 74, January 2002


Porto Alegre social summit sets stage for counteroffensive against globalization
Walden Bello

A shareholder pickets outside the Waldorf
Barbara Garson

The twin debacles of globalization
Walden Bello

G8 seeks redemption in September 11
Nicola Bullard

Argentina: Political contagion poses biggest risk for US
Gerard Coffey

Two, three, many Argentinas? Porto Alegre can put a debtor's cartel on the global agenda
Jeremy Brecher, Dennis Brutus, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith

Follow the money! A review of "Money makes the world go around" by Barbara Garson
Nicola Bullard


Number 75, March 2002


Afghanistan II or Mogadishu II: The Philippines as ‘second front”
Walden Bello

Disclosure, or deception? Multilateral institutions and access to information
Shalmali Guttal

Financing for globalisation, not financing for development
Vandana Shiva

IMF playing with fire in Argentina
Mark Weisbrot

Vietnam and the world coffee crisis: local coffee riots in a global context
Gerard Greenfield


Number 76, April 2002


The world just watches
Neta Golan

Report from Basilan
Victoria Brittain

The puppet master shows his hand
Nicola Bullard

International peace mission visit to Basilan and Zamboanga
Preliminary findings


Number 77, April 2002


What's wrong with the Oxfam trade campaign
Walden Bello

Challenging the export-oriented optimists
Jacques-chai Chomthongdi

Thanks, but no thanks: An open letter to World Bank vice president Mats Karlsson or why we won't be going to Wilton Park

Controversial report poisons board-management relations at ADB
Walden Bello

Soros on global governance reform: Interesting but disappointing
Walden Bello

The eyes and ears of the world: The importance of the international civilian presence in Palestine
Nicola Bullard

West Bank diary
Christophe Aguiton


Number 78, May 2002


The Oxfam debate: From controversy to common strategy
Walden Bello

Oxfam's response to Walden Bello
Angus Cleary

Musharraf: The West's favourite military dictator
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Washington: Triumphant or overextended?
Walden Bello

The wolf's old tricks fail in Venezuela
Theotonio dos Santos

Report from South Africa: This is what efficiency looks like
Sara Grutsky

Koreans call on soccer fans to get organised


Number 79, July 2002


Capitalist crisis and corporate crime
Walden Bello

Revolution and counterrevolution in Venezuela
Walden Bello

Don't multiply the loaves and fishes, just distribute them: What should be on the Brazilian election agenda
Frei (brother) Betto


Number 80, August 2002


WSSD special: forget the sustainability, feel the profit


Johannesburg junction
Walden Bello

Exporting Enron environmentalism: The Bush vision for Johannesburg
Victor Menotti

Commercialising sustainability: the WTO in the WSSD
Shalmali Guttal

Forcing shades of green
Raj Patel

Militarism and neoliberalism: on the march or on the ropes?


Coming: a rerun of the 1930s?
Walden Bello

World Social Forum International Council, Bangkok, 15 August 2002
Another world is possible
On militarization and war versus peace and security

Dark clouds amassing on Afghanistan's political horizon
Marco Mezzera


Number 81, September 2002


Indonesia defies the Cairns group in favour of food security
Aileen Kwa

Laying the groundwork for Cancun: another Doha 'success'?
Aileen Kwa

The Mississippi-Mekong catfish wars
Shalmali Guttal

The world summit on sustaining global apartheid
Mary Louise Malig

Unraveling of the atlantic alliance?
Walden Bello

"Before they killed us with guns, now they do it with hunger"
Some moments from the Argentina Social Forum
Nicola Bullard

The decay of capitalism and global resistance
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

What alternative to globalization?
A review of The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance
Victor Wallis

Number 82, October 2002

Brazil on threshold of new era with Lula victory
Walden Bello

Collective security is working
Jeremy Brecher

From Seattle to Doha: solidarity is the only weapon of developing countries
Nguyen Van Thanh

Wasted by the World Bank
Sulak Sivaraksa

No one is immune
Supara Janchitfah

Canadian potash miner faces constitutional hurdles and community opposition
Project for Ecological Recovery & Mining Watch Canada

Number 83, December 2002

Is the WTO collapsing under its own ambitions?
Nicola Bullard

The blood of innocents and our liberation -- An Asian testament
Walden Bello

Gujarat election shifts balance of power in indian politics
Raghav Narsalay

The european social forum: reviving the spirit of Seattle, dispelling the ghosts of Genoa
Peter Wahl

Supachai endorses exclusive meetings
Aileen Kwa

“Boom and the Bubble” captures dynamics of global economic crisis
Walden Bello

Storm clouds over Latin America
William I. Robinson

Proposal for a Social Movements World Network
MST, CUT Brasil, ATTAC France, World Wide March of Women, Focus on the Global South