December 2004's Issue
Its advocates say free trade is the key to progress and prosperity. But the panacea is not all it’s cracked up to be. The North American Free Trade Agreement, which has been in force for more than a decade, has been a recipe for disaster. The promise of economic gain has melted away to be replaced by the reality of raw corporate power. This issue charts the history of free trade and profiles the resistance to its continued expansion across Latin America.
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Green light, red light
Opportunity and menace are the two sides of the human-trafficking coin. But Lily Hyde, writing from Ukraine, smells hypocrisy.
The language of international corporations
The language of corporations.
- Mitchell & Richardson
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Ring of fire
Indigenous people across the Andes are fed up with free trade. Co-authors Kathryn Ledebur and Sandra Edwards report from Ecuador and Bolivia.
- Kathryn Ledebur
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Interview with Leanne Allison and Karsten Heuer
Leanne Allison and Karsten Heuer have been living with the caribou on one of the longest migrations undertaken by land mammals, across the Yukon and Alaska.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
The people of corn
Mexico’s food security is threatened by American maize, argues Laura Carlsen.
- Laura Carlsen
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
The Lessons of War
Afonso Dhlakama of Renamo may once have been sponsored by apartheid South Africa but he deserves more influence in the democratic Mozambique of today, argues Ike Oguine.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Another world is possible if...
Another world is possible if… by Susan George
- Vanessa Baird
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Taking control in Chiapas
Hugh MacLeod looks at the Zapatista opposition to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
- Hugh MacLeod
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
The other Israel: voices of refusal and dissent
The other Israel edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin
- Adam Ma'anit
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Affordable drugs? Forget it!
Patricia Ranald monitors Australia’s fight to hang on to its low-priced drugs scheme in the face of mounting US pressure.
- Patricia Ranald
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Shadi Ghadirian
Like Every Day - Women as second-class citizens. Photo by Shadi Ghadirian.
- Shadi Ghadirian
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Hanging in the balance
New trade treaties increase corporate control over patents. AIDS patients in Peru will pay the price, argues Stephanie Boyd.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 1
Hurricane Opportunity
Disaster relief as a transnational marketing opportunity in Haiti.
- Megan Rowling
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Iyad Allawi
Calling me a CIA stooge is misleading, says Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi – I spied for 15 different spy agencies.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Kill in the name of God
A false declaration claiming that Halakha commands the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Action - Support trade justice, support fair trade!
Action - the Fair Trade alternative.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 2
Can't pay, won't pay!
Roger Burbach claims foreign investors have pushed Argentina to the wall. And now the country is pushing back.
- Roger Burbach
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Western Sahara
The Government of Western Sahara operates not from its own capital city, L’ayoun, but from a small patch of desert over the border in Algeria.
- Chris Brazier
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
Up for grabs
Workers are caught in the cross-hairs as free trade targets the labour movement. A report by David Bacon.
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
The world trading system is corrupt and unjust.
Littered with broken promises, the trail of free trade is leading the world to a dead end. Wayne Ellwood makes the case for change.
- Wayne Ellwood
- 1 Dec 2004
- 0
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