Economic
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- Third World Traveler - World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Articles offering an alternative view to the corporate media on the impact of the policies of the United States' democratic government.
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- Wikipedia - World Trade Organization
- Hyperlinked encyclopedia article includes its origin, membership and a timeline.
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- Attac International
- An international organization working to introduce Tobin-type tax and opposing free trade, globalization and neoliberalism.
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- EFTA- Promoting Fair Trade in Europe
- The European Fair Trade Association follows events and policy in the EU concerning its subject. Annotated news links.
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- Global Trade Watch
- Section of Public Citizen, a public-interest group founded by Ralph Nader, GTW promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor "free trade."
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- World Development Movement
- The World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the root causes of world poverty. It campaigns for fairer world trade, regulating multinationals and cancelling Third World debt.
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- On the Remedy Phase of the Microsoft Antitrust Trial
- Critique of the proposed settlement in the U.S. antitrust suit against Microsoft, plus links to other critiques and background information.
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- U.S. v. Microsoft
- The United States Department of justice' own index of their documents against Microsoft.
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- The US Blockade of Cuba
- Annotated links to mid-90's articles and interviews on impact of the embargo. Mostly English, some Spanish.
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- Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
- Details of the society campaigning to lift the U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Includes information about the sanctions, the society, and their activities.
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- Iraqi children
- Johanna Berrigan, a Catholic Worker lay person out of Philadelphia, is used to working with poor people, but she wasn't prepared for a "death row for infants" that she found in Baghdad hospitals.
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- IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies
- The IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have led to a spiraling race to the bottom for the developing countries that have followed their prescriptions, which require cutbacks on health, education and so on. Poverty as a result has soared.
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- Global Exchange - World Bank / IMF Fact Sheet
- Examination of the effects and requirements set by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which give money to poor governments in return for possibly damaging economic controls.
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- No Democracy in Quebec City A20-23
- Over 40,000 people decended upon the Summit meetings to show their disagreement with the FTAA. The peaceful protesters were blocked by a 100 million dollar wall and attacked by police with gas bombs, plastic bullets, stun guns, and water cannons.
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- FBI Raids Independent Media Center
- Security plans intended to protect Western leaders attending a trade summit were posted on a Seattle-based web site. On Saturday night, FBI agents raided the offices of the Independent Media Center in downtown Seattle. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
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- WTO Protests at Seattle
- Critiques of press coverage of Seattle WTO meeting and links to information about WTO. (October 17, 1999)
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- Globaloney
- Jim Hightower commentary contending that globalization represents "a global corporate coup against We the People to seize power so that they might reign as sovereigns."