Globalization and Trade Reform 2008 News Archives

2008 Headlines:

• 03/11/10 - Government Hearings on Agribusiness Concentration Should Consider Role of NAFTA
• 02/22/10 - Hogging the Gains from Trade: The Real Winners from U.S. Trade and Agricultural Policies
• 12/29/09 - The Slow Food, "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food
• 12/28/09 - Corporate Globalization Leaving Developing Nations Hungry
• 12/15/09 - Dumping on Mexico
• 11/05/09 - New York Times Editorial Against Siddiqui
• 11/04/09 - 80+ Groups and 38,000+ Reach Out to Senate Finance Committee Against Siddiqui Nomination
• 10/29/09 - More Food May Not Mean Less Hunger
• 10/27/09 - Family Farmer Speaks about Rural Crisis Caused by Big Banks and Mega-Farms
• 10/26/09 - Marx and Lenin Revisited
• 10/08/09 - Our Global Ponzi Economy
• 09/29/09 - Under the Clinton Global Initiative, Growing Power Takes its Grassroots-Agriculture Model to Africa
• 09/27/09 - Young Farmers Protest the G 20, Install Garden Bed in Entrance of Whole Foods
• 09/27/09 - Cognitive Dissonance on Farm Issues No Problem For Clintons
• 09/08/09 - Ending Africa's Hunger: the Rise of Philanthropy Capitalism
• 09/02/09 - Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire
• 06/22/09 - Panama's Ngöbe Indians Win Major Victory at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• 06/22/09 - A Victory for Indigenous Peoples: Controversial Free Trade Laws Revoked by Peru's Congress
• 06/04/09 - New Website is a Comprehensive Information Tool on the Global Land Grab
• 04/23/09 - Consequences of US Farm Policy on Mexico Farmers
• 01/11/09 - Obama and NAFTA
• 01/07/09 - Top Censored Press Stories of 2008
• 06/25/08 - Can Sustainable Agriculture Save the World? New Film Says Yes!
• 06/18/08 - The Prison Industrial Complex: 7.2 Americans in Jail, on Parole or Probation
• 06/06/08 - Globalization Death Watch, Part I: Airlines, Cargo Ships Increasingly Desperate due to Rising Fuel Costs
• 06/02/08 - Plan Mexico: Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico
• 05/30/08 - Peter Rosset: The Time has Come for Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
• 05/17/08 - The World Bank, the IMF, and the Multinationals: Manufacturing the World Food Crisis
• 05/12/08 - Behind the Food Riots: A Debate on How Best to Farm
• 04/29/08 - Mass Mobilizations in Mexico Temporarily Stop Bush-Calderon Oil Privatization
• 04/20/08 - Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney Reports on Her Experience in Mexico at Second Continental Conference
• 04/17/08 - ILRF Reponds to Cargill
• 01/17/08 - NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse Zero Hour
• 01/06/08 - NAFTA Free Trade Myth Has Led to Massive Farm Failures in Mexico
• 12/16/08 - Massive Violations of Human Rights of Migrant Workers by both Mexico & the U.S.
• 12/03/08 - What Does Barack Obama Know About Peak Oil?
• 11/21/08 - Financial and Food Crises Linked By Extreme Price Volatility in Deregulated Markets
• 10/22/08 - Consolidation in the Beef Industry Has Gotten Too Intense Even for the Bush DOJ
• 10/06/08 - Medical Marijuana--Dying to Get High
• 09/23/08 - Growing Republican & Democratic Opposition to Wall Street Bail-Out as Polls Show Growing Public Opposition
• 09/22/08 - World Narrowly Avoided "Financial Armageddon" Last Week
• 09/20/08 - Consumer Alert on Global Markets Cascading Meltdown
• 08/21/08 - Globalization Death Watch, Part III: Either We'll be Green or We'll Be Poor
• 08/20/08 - Wastewater Fears for Urban Farms
• 08/14/08 - The Food System as 'Largest Quasi-Public Utility in the World'
• 08/14/08 - Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans
• 08/05/08 - Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
• 08/04/08 - Independence Or Interdependence?
• 07/13/08 - North America Doesn't Exist
• 07/06/08 - NAFTA and the Elephant in the Room
• 12/24/07 - NAFTA at Fourteen: Historic Mexico-USA Showdown Looms
• 12/15/07 - Indigenous Groups Defend Mexican Corn
• 11/19/07 - Tainted Ginger's Long Trip From China to U.S. Stores
• 11/06/07 - Interview with Vandana Shiva: Diet for a Dying Planet
• 10/31/07 - Fair Trade, Not So-Called Free Trade: Stop the Peru Free Trade Agreement
• 10/05/07 - So-Called North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Lets Pesticides In, Shuts Peace Activists Out, Says Council of Canadians
• 10/01/07 - Vandana Shiva: How to Address Humanity's Global Crises?
• 08/31/07 - Who Will Rule? Citizens Movements Take On Corporate Power
• 08/23/07 - Protestors Rage Against North America Summit
• 08/23/07 - Right-Wingers Make Common Cause with Leftists Regarding Expansion of NAFTA to North American Union
• 08/21/07 - U.S. Human Rights, Trade and Labor Groups Oppose Closed-Door Summit on North America's Future
• 08/13/07 - 'WTO Kills Farmers': India Free Market Reforms Trigger Farmers' Suicides
• 08/08/07 - Community-supported Agriculture Serves As Counterexample To Market Demands Of Globalization
• 05/27/07 - Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics
• 05/27/07 - Attention Immigrants: Thanks for Your Hard Work. Now Leave
• 05/21/07 - Mexican Immigration and Corn
• 05/11/07 - New Study Denounces Current Global Food System and Presents Alternatives
• 03/08/07 - Congress’s Upcoming "Free" Trade Brawl: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• 02/17/07 - Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
• 01/12/07 - From An Organic Farmer's Perspective: Globalization Needs Rules
• 10/23/06 - New Report Critical of Gates/Rockefeller and FAO's 'Green Revolution for Africa'
• 09/25/06 - U.S./Mexico/Canada Military, Business & Political Elite Meet in Secret to Cement North American Security State
• 09/15/06 - Tortilla Spat: How Mexico's Iconic Flatbread Went Industrial and Lost its Flavor
• 08/03/06 - Argentina's Worker Controlled Factories & Businesses A Growing Part of the Economy
• 07/26/06 - W.T.O. is Dead, Long Live Free Trade: Globalisation and its New Avatars
• 07/25/06 - Collapse of Corporate Agenda in WTO Talks: Good News for the Poor & the Environment
• 06/21/06 - Jesse Jackson: Big Oil Has Dominated America for Too Long
• 06/20/06 - William Greider: The Coming Political Revolution
• 03/26/06 - A New Ethics Needed to Save Life on Earth
• 03/10/06 - Free Trade Agreements: Trading Away Traditional Knowledge
• 03/04/10 - Globalization On the Rocks
• 12/14/09 - Hell is the Tijuana Assembly Line
• 11/11/09 - Prescriptive Agricultural Policy for Developing Countries: Back to Basics
• 11/06/09 - Localization is Way to Redefine Globalization
• 09/07/09 - The Virtues of Deglobalization: Walden Bello
• 08/03/09 - Free Trade Makes You Fat
• 04/30/09 - Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
• 04/30/09 - How 'The NAFTA Flu' Exploded
• 04/29/09 - The "NAFTA Flu": Critics Say Swine Flu Has Roots in Forcing Poor Countries to Accept Western Agribusiness
• 04/22/09 - G-8 Ag Ministers’ Support for Free Trade and Biotech Undermine Progress to Eradicate Hunger
• 04/21/09 - NAFTA Threat Won’t Stop Quebec Ban on Lawn Pesticides
• 04/03/09 - Will Dow Challenge Quebec Pesticide Law?
• 03/30/09 - Will NAFTA Exterminate Canadian Pesticide Bans?
• 03/10/09 - Chavez Orders Nationalization of Cargill
• 02/22/09 - Layoffs at the Factory Farm: Farmers Take the Hit as the CAFO Model Comes Under Pressure
• 02/21/09 - Livestock Producers from Mexico, Canada and United States Seek New Trade Policy and Market Reforms
• 02/04/09 - The Farms Race: Wealthy Countries Short of Fertile Land are Gazing Hungrily at Canada's Prairies