Trade

WTO members launch push for industry deal

verda — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:31:09 -0600

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

karl — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:57:54 -0600

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

verda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:40:36 -0600

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

richard — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:30:38 -0700

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'

richard — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:03:50 -0700

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

richard — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:46:26 -0700

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

richard — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:34:02 -0700

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!

richard — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:41:49 -0600

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?

richard — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:50:06 -0600

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?

richard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:10:46 -0600

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

Watch interview here