by Vandana ShivaThe WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets they walked out of the Seattle and Cancun ministerial, exercising the highest power in democracy, the power to say … [Read more...] about WTO meeting in Hong Kong: Our World is not for sale!
Chinese/English Links:民間監察世貿聯盟/Hong Kong People’s Alliance on the WTO, more links
People's Action Week is the people's alternative to the World Trade Organization's 6th Ministerical Conference. Beginning on the 8th of December, and continuing until the end of the MC6, various local and international organizations have organized a wide range of workshops, seminars, and cultural events all focusing on the impact of the World Trade Organization on people. Keep … [Read more...] about Chinese/English Links:民間監察世貿聯盟/Hong Kong People’s Alliance on the WTO, more links
Is Europe Western?
by TAWADA Yoko...Several years ago a new law was passed in Japan decreeing that the Japanese flag was to be raised at every ceremony taking place at schools and universities in the country. It determined the exact size of the flag. Otherwise, some people could decide to raise a flag that was smaller than a postage stamp. The law insisted that the flag was to be raised in … [Read more...] about Is Europe Western?
Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel: the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
by George MonbiotOver the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a belief in magic.In 2003, the biologist Jeffrey Dukes calculated that the fossil fuels we burn in one year were … [Read more...] about Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel: the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Robert Fisk on journalism, war, terror, good/evil and “democracy.. delivered by tanks & helicopters”
Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israel/Palestine conflict, Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.His new book, The Great War for … [Read more...] about Robert Fisk on journalism, war, terror, good/evil and “democracy.. delivered by tanks & helicopters”