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Granddad, Tell How Capitalism Committed Suicide

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Scoop: Globalization and terror - Western Bloc barbarism

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The main Western powers were co-opting smaller countries with aid and trade benefits
And within countries like Ireland, as also in the wealthier European NATO member countries - former colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Belgium - an internal process of co-option was under way bringing NGOs on board to serve more than ever as the soft arm of Western Bloc and NATO country foreign policy.
much of their funding, sometimes even the majority of it, comes directly from governmental sources,
Reading it again reminds one of how far aspirations have fallen in just fifteen years. Now we regard it as a victory if some court in a Western Bloc country reaffirms the illegality of torture or the primacy of habeas corpus.
All this indicates that the European Union is at least as committed as the United States government to defending whatever abuse of the Palestinians' fundamental rights Israel chooses to inflict.
The very powers legally obliged to protect the Palestinians are collaborating in their slow destruction and rewarding their destroyers with economic, social and cultural incentives.
Plan Balboa, military manoeuvres carried out in 2001 in which a country identical to Venezuela is invaded in support of a country identical to Colombia, was a NATO exercise.
NATO's presence in Afghanistan is part of the process of transforming its role from one of European defence into one of global intervention.
So while the rich countries that promote corporate globalization demand poorer countries give big multinational corporations greater market access on extremely advantageous investment terms, people in poorer countries are denied the chance to exploit one of the few valuable resources they have - their labour
The Venezuelan government may well react to any conflict resulting from an Israeli strike against Iran with oil sanctions against the United States. If it does, then the recently reactivated US Fourth Fleet is likely to be mobilised along with the US Southern Command's other extensive regional resources against Venezuela in support of whatever contingency plans the United States and its NATO allies have already worked out with the Venezuelan opposition and the Colombian government along the lines of Plan Balboa.

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Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism' Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck

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today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of
multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of
fear and disorientation that accompanies moments of great shock and
crisis.
foreign firms will keep 75 percent of the value of
the contracts
The policy
was always to allocate these fields to the Iraq National Oil Company,"
he told me. This is a total reversal of that policy
billions handed out in no-bid contracts to Western firms have failed
to rebuild the country.
Thus the invasion of Iraq neatly creates the argument for its subsequent
pillage.
Iraq is being
forced to sell 75 percent of its national patrimony to pay the bills for
its own illegal invasion and occupation.
Canada increased its exports to the States by almost 100
million barrels. Yet despite this significant increase in secure
supplies, oil prices have been going up the entire time.
message was clear: impoverished countries had
better crack open their agricultural markets to American products and
genetically modified seeds, or they could risk having their aid cut off.

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Weapons of mass financial destruction, by Gabriel Kolko

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The Black Death of financial collapse

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Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries

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Criminal Charges Against Coca-Cola Likely in India

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The politics of oil in Venezuela George Philip

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Food to Stay - How a local food system builds health and community wealth

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A new International Trade Union Confederation is Born

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No Deal: Communities work together for a world where people matter more than trade

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China's Next Big Export: Inflation

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Demand from China, along with other fast-growing emerging economies, has driven up the price of oil and a wide range of other commodities for the past several years
>. But what's really worrying many economists is the sudden appearance of relatively high inflation within China and the ripples that might cause abroad.
it will be an inflationary influence over the next 10 years.
to allay public anxiety about eroding paychecks, Beijing has been encouraging local governments to raise minimum wages
Moves like the latter one could wind up stoking the fires of global inflation
Internationally, the price of imports from China will come up
If the pattern continues, things could get complicated for central bankers around the world, and for U.S. central-bank chairman Ben Bernanke in particular. Beset by a slowing economy amid the subprime loan meltdown, Bernanke is trying to ease interest rates without triggering higher inflation. Additional inflationary pressure from one of America's largest trading partners will undermine his ability to reduce rates further to prevent the U.S. economy from stalling.

The Neocon Reader by Irwin M. Stelzer, reviewed by Salon.com

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"WTO Kills Farmers": India Free Market Reforms Trigger Farmers' Suicides

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Costa Rica and CAFTA

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nventing labor leaders to serve as pro-CAFTA figureheads,
launching a publicity blitz (Costa Rican press reports that the
proponents have already spent $500 million dollars on publicity
compared to anti-CAFTA expenditures of $30 million), and conducting
a smear campaign against the opposition.
The core of the proposed strategy
is a fear campaign that, according to the memo, would stimulate
four kinds of fear: fear of loss of jobs, fear of attack on democratic
institutions ("make NO the equivalent of violence and anti-democracy"),
fear of foreign influence ("insist on the connection of
NO with Fidel, Chávez, and Ortega"), and fear of
the impact of rejection of CAFTA on the government (financial
instability, lack of governance). The memo calls for uniting
big business behind the agreement, while presenting a public
face conformed of civil society members.
While other Central American
nations spent money and lives on civil wars and fighting off
foreign intervention, Costa Rica abolished its army and invested
public funds in social programs to guarantee a basic standard
of living for the entire population. Later when other countries
clamored to create duty-free manufacturing zones, privatize state
industries, and liberalize trade, Costa Rica maintained control
of strategic public services.
The results are impressive.
In the period of rapid economic integration between 1990 and
2003, the four other Central American countries saw an increase
in malnutrition from 17% to 20% of the population, adding 2.4
million people to hunger counts.1 In Costa Rica, only 6% of children
under five suffer from chronic malnutrition, compared to 19%
in El Salvador, 20% in Nicaragua, 29% in Honduras, and a tragic
49% in Guatemala.
The current legislation demands
that rounding up poor people who sell home-made movie and music
CDs become a national crime-fighting obsession. In cities where
real crime has eroded the fabric of society and made the phrase
"public security" sound like a bad joke, the priority
is worse than misplaced.
"implementing legislation" meant figuring out a way
to make up for the approximately $823 million dollars in government
revenues lost after eliminating tariffs to imported U.S. goods.
The government's answer was to apply consumer taxes on gas and
food. Millions of dollars that used to be paid by some of the
wealthiest transnational corporations in the world must now be
paid by Dominicans struggling to feed their families. The resultant
increase in the cost of living led to a national strike Oct.
2-the second protest this year.
Other examples include limitations
on the use of generic drugs and further privatization of services
Panama-two labor leaders were murdered in broad
daylight
There's a simple folk-saying:
"If it's not broken, don't fix it." Adopting an economic
model designed to benefit the economically powerful is not a
good way to allocate the abundant natural and human resources
of Costa Rica

Free trade and offshoring jobs are the problems, not China

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Exposing the Invisible Borders of Adam Smith Unequal Free Trade Capitalism

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