Mark Engler, TomPaine.com. March 28, 2002. President Bush is busy touting U.S. aid to developing countries, but experience in El Salvador shows how U.S.-devised neo-liberal policies deepen poverty and constrain human rights.
Marc Cooper, The Nation. March 14, 2002. What did anti-globalization activists find when they went to Porto Alegre to attend the World Social Forum -- hope for the future.
Carter Dougherty, TomPaine.com. February 28, 2002. The more the pro-free trade establishment dismisses those who oppose globalization, the greater chance the crazy quilt of unions, environmentalists, consumer advocates, glassy-eyed tokers and black-clad anarchists will matter.
Walter Truett Anderson, Pacific News Service. February 15, 2002. Anti-globalists, stung by charges that they are too simplistic, idealistic or just plain behind the times, are beginning to develop an alternative global vision, asking what they stand for, not just what they're against.
AlterNet. February 15, 2002. When 50,000 people gathered for the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, what exactly happened? Why should we care? A package of stories to answer those and many other questions.
Naomi Klein, TomPaine.com. February 13, 2002. Do the public floggings at the World Economic Forum represent true progress? No, true progress can be found in a small city in Brazil.
Lenora Todaro, Village Voice. February 11, 2002. Corporate moguls debated their role in the post-9/11 era at the World Economic Forum in New York. But all that talk about "good citizenship" may be just that.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. February 4, 2002. Pitted against the wildly popular NYPD, this weekend's anti-WEF protesters were more subdued than their predecessors in Seattle or Davos. Was their message still heard?
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. February 4, 2002. Of the two world forums that happened this weekend, the Economic one was deemed "practical" and the Social one "idealogical." But a closer look shows the economic elites to be the stubborn ideologues, and the social entreprenuers to be the realistic pragmatists.
Tamara Straus, AlterNet. January 24, 2002. A new film hitting theaters all over the country is earning raves from critics because it does the impossible: turns the stale subject of "free trade" into a riveting narrative.
Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com. January 22, 2002. Even as Argentina collapses, the Bush Administration has renewed a push for free trade aggreements fraught with double standards. Central and South American countries are hardly embracing the policies.
Scott Harris, Between the Lines. January 21, 2002. Michael Dolan of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch discusses his concerns and hopes about the upcoming World Economic Forum protests in New York City.
Jerry Mander, Debi Barker, TomPaine.com. January 10, 2002. The IMF, World Bank and WTO say they can save the day, but their histories as anti-poverty institutions provide bad evidence.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 2, 2002. Argentina's economic meltdown might seem far away from American borders, but our greedy support of short-sighted IMF policies is largely to blame.
Richard Falk, AlterNet. December 20, 2001. Bush claims that the War on Terrorism has united America with the world. But by rejecting treaties and thumbing his nose at international law, he proves exactly the opposite.
Thomas E. Ambrogi, AlterNet. December 19, 2001. With a population of 800 million and a combined GDP of $11 trillion, the FTAA would be the largest free trade zone in world. It would also allow transnational corporations to sue governments for financial compensation, since publicly-funded services are considered "monopolies."
William Greider, The Nation. December 18, 2001. As globalization enters a fateful new stage, China is taking jobs away from Mexico and other low-wage developing countries.
Kevin Danaher, Jason Mark, AlterNet. December 4, 2001. A Congressional vote on whether to give the President "fast track" powers in trade negotiations could happen any day. For our safety in the terror war, Congress should vote no.
Anuradha Mittal, International Forum on Globalization. December 3, 2001. Agricultural liberalization has failed to live up to its advertising as the key to improving farmers' economic situations in developing nations and solving world hunger.
Franz Schurmann, Pacific News Service. November 26, 2001. As America's economic slump continues and Washington focuses on the war in Afghanistan, the countries of Southeast Asia are increasingly turning toward an awesomely productive China.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. November 16, 2001. Lack of progress at the WTO meeting just concluded in Doha, Qatar can be chalked up to a powerful new force: developing countries are beginning to defend their interests.
Srinand Jha, TomPaine.com. November 12, 2001. A New Delhi-based journalist explores the mixed blessing of globalization in India, where American values, products and media have fueled a cultural revolution.
Jennifer Bauduy, TomPaine.com. October 22, 2001. Premilla Dixit, an anti-corporate activist, will not be in Qatar or Singapore for the World Trade Organization meeting this November. But she is still laboring 16 hours a day to drive home the importance of putting checks on international trade.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. October 10, 2001. Anti-corporate protesters who once aimed at powerful symbols of capitalism -- like the World Trade Center -- have found themselves in a transformed landscape.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. October 4, 2001. By using the tragey of 9-11 to steamroll "fast track" legislation through Congress, the Bush administration is acting like an ambulance-chasing lawyer.
Steven Rosenfeld, TomPaine.com. October 3, 2001. An arcane provision of NAFTA -- that could set a precedent for the forthcoming free trade zone for all of the Americas -- allows corporations to sue governments if new laws threaten future earnings.
Frances M. Beal, AlterNet. September 12, 2001. The forum of nongovernmental organizations at the World Conference Against Racism revealed there is an ever more articulate and ever more vocal anti-globalization movement.
Kari Lydersen, LiP Magazine. September 10, 2001. The latest spoonful of "free trade alphabet soup" being served in the Americas is the PPP -- the Plan Puebla-Panama, a trade ploy that may forever change Mexico.
Starhawk, AlterNet. September 5, 2001. After surviving the violence in Genoa, this leading activist is more convinced than ever that anti-corporate protesters need to stay in the streets, mounting large, global actions.
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Globalization
The globalization debate has rightly been called the grand ideological battle of the 21st century. It has pitted student activists against corporate heads, union members against environmentalists, Mexican peasants against officials of the International Monetary Fund.
Background
Read the summary of proposals made at the World Social forum in Porto Alegre. Read it.
