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Bolivia Rising: The Rise of Food Fascism: Allied to Global Agribusiness, Agrarian Elite Foments Coup in Bolivia

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Manufacturing Consent - World Bank to Keep Funding Oil, Mining and Gas — Friends of the Earth International

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Weapons of mass financial destruction, by Gabriel Kolko

Tags: economics, globalization, neoliberalism on 2008-06-29 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Consequences of Globalization and Neoliberal Policies. What are the Alternatives?

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Monetary Causes of the Immigration Crisis

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East Timor: The Coup the World Missed

Tags: asia, destabilization, neoliberalism on 2008-02-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Our model dictator

Tags: asia, neoliberalism, pathocracy on 2008-02-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Why the era of cheap food is over | csmonitor.com

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EU leaders sign landmark reform treaty

Tags: europe, neoliberalism on 2007-12-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Just desserts aren't so absurd

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An Economic System Out of Control

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P. Sainath: Neoliberalism's Price Tag

Tags: neoliberalism, society on 2007-11-21 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Latin America's Shock Resistance

Tags: economics, neoliberalism on 2007-11-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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SHOCK DOCTRINE'S SHOCKING SHORT SHRIFT

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Brown urged to reform UK welfare policy

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The worst crisis I've seen in 30 years | Comment | Guardian Unlimited Politics

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EU Reform Same as Rejected Constitution

Tags: economics, global elite, neoliberalism on 2007-10-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries

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Maternal Mortality Shames Superpower U.S.

Tags: neoliberalism, society, us, wealth on 2007-10-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Costa Rica and CAFTA

Tags: americana, globalization, neoliberalism on 2007-10-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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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
Other examples include limitations
on the use of generic drugs and further privatization of services
Panama-two labor leaders were murdered in broad
daylight
"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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.

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