Trade

WTO members launch push for industry deal

Posted June 11, 2008 in [Trade]

By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) - A dozen rich and poor countries launched
talks on Monday to reach agreement on trade in industrial goods,
diplomats said. The talks, hosted by the United States, include the
European Union and Japan with advanced developing countries like India,
China and Brazil, and are due to run for one or two weeks.

How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture and who's fighting back

Posted May 16, 2008 in [Trade]

Walden Bello, The Nation, June 2008 edition - When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit.

Corporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis

Posted April 30, 2008 in [Trade]

Anuradha Mittal, AlterNet, April 29, 2008 - The IMF, WTO and the rest of the neoliberal world are still pushing more trade as a cure for what ails us.

We should all support NAFTA renegotiation

Posted March 14, 2008 in [Trade]

Frances Russell, Winnipeg Free Press, March 5, 2008 - Canadians and Mexicans should pressure their governments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — Canadians to regain control over energy and Mexicans to regain control over agricultural land.

The Free Trade Agreement: '20 Years Later'

Posted January 2, 2008 in [Trade]

Free trade has failed to live up to its promises - study -- The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, press release, December 28, 2007 - Twenty years after Canada signed the Free Trade Agreement its biggest boosters have grown wealthier but promises of better jobs and rising living standards fell short, says a

Two Canadians Win Alternative Nobel Awards

Posted December 11, 2007 in [Trade]

Farm couple, Percy Schmeiser and Louise Schmeiser, have been awarded the 2007 Right Livelihood Award [better known as the 'Althernative Nobel Prize'] in Sweden for their courage in waging battles against genetically engineered food production and companies like Monsanto. The 2007 Right Livelihood Awards highlight solutions to global challenges.

Polaris Institute and Others Issue Economic Challenge to Bali Conference on Climate Change

Posted December 7, 2007 in [Trade]

The Polaris Institute joins the Institute for Policy Studies and the International Forum on Globalization in issuing an economic challenge to Bali conference on climate change.

The Document is attached below

IFG Teach-In on the Triple Crises!

Posted September 4, 2007 in [Trade]

The International Forum on Globalization is hosting a teach-in called 'Confronting the Global Triple Crises' of our times --- climate change, peak oil, and resource depletion --- September 14-16 in Washington DC.

The Polaris Institute is co-sponsoring and participating.

Is water on the table at Montebello?

Posted August 21, 2007 in [Trade]

Linda McQuaig, August 21, 2007, Toronto Star - One thing we can be pretty sure won't be announced when Stephen Harper, George Bush and Mexican president Felipe Calderon emerge from their summit in Montebello, Que., later today is a plan to divert Canadian water to the United States.

Is the US Annexing Canada and Mexico?

Posted August 20, 2007 in [Trade]

Exposing the 'Security and Prosperity Partnership', an interview with Polaris Institute Director Tony Clarke.

Watch interview here