Globalization
2003

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Hu's On First? by James Sherman
Trade Progress 1850-1940

• Ever Heard of Hood Robin? - Devinder Sharma 30dec03
• Harvesting Poverty: The Unkept Promise - Editorial / NY Times 30dec03
• China Removes Tariffs on 5 Kinds of Steel -Bloomberg News 27dec03
• Fish Farms: Ranching The Open Sea  - The Oregonian 23dec03 
• China Poses NAFTA Challenge -  Pacific News Service 19dec03
• WTO GC Meet: Alternatives For The Future -  The Financial Express (India) 15dec03
• Devinder Sharma & The Business of World Hunger  -  McGill Reporter (Montreal) 11dec03
• Wal-Mart Bid on Supermarkets In U.K. Is Move to Thwart Rival -  Wall Street Journal 11dec03
• EU Panel Deadlock May Augur: Change in Biotech-Food Stance - Wall Street Journal 8dec03
• Biotech Boom Linked to Development Dollars -  IPS 3dec03
• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03
• Who Wins and Who Loses as Jobs Move Overseas? (Longer Version) -  NY Times 8nov03
• Wal-Mart Invades, and Mexico Gladly Surrenders -  NY Times 6dec03
• Powell Puts Terror Fight Appeal to North Africa - International Herald Tribune 3dec03
• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03
• Complete Industrialization Of Farming: Weeding Out the Skilled Farmer -  CropCoice 25nov03
• Treaty May Stub Out Cigarette Ads in China -  Wall Street Journal 2dec03
• Charity In The Name of Science - Devinder Sharma / India Together 25nov03
• Free Trade, à la Carte - Editorial / NY Times 22nov03
• United States – Mexico Binational Commission (BNC / P4P) Fact Sheet 10nov2003
• WTO Rules US Tariffs on Steel Are Illegal -  NY Times 10nov03
• Devinder Sharma's North America Lecture Tour Schedule 7 - 26 November, 2003
• EU, WTO Envoy Meet to Find Ways to Restart Trade Talks -  Wall Street Journal 6nov03
• Free Trade Fall Washington Post & NY Times 5nov03
• Bolivia: Grievances That Can Bring Globalization to Grief - NY Times 5nov03
• GM Food and Hunger: A View from the South - Devinder Sharma Nov03
• First World and the Underworld: A Tale of Two Dons DEVINDER SHARMA 31oct03
• Miami Caught in Free Trade Quandary -  NY Times 28oct03
• Phone-Center Workers Live In an American 'Bubble'; Cheesedogs and Hip-Hop: At 2 a.m. in Manila, It's Time For a Midday Snack - Wall Street Journal 20oct03
• Bill Gates: Innocents abroad? - The Guardian 16oct03
• Australia/EU/USA: WTO Forms Dispute Panel in Geographical Indications Case -  Justfood.com 15oct03
• EU: US Firms 'Tried to Lie' Over GM crops, says EU -  The Independent (UK) 14oct03
• Creating Global Airlines - NY Times 7oct03
• Deal With Russia Reached - High Plains Journal 30sep03
• Free Trade Is War  - The Nation 29sep03
• When Northern Elephants Fight Over GMOs. . .    Dr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher / Panos Features 23sep03
• Dow Faces Suit Over South African Pollution: Farmers Claim Herbicides Destroyed Land, Lawyer Says -  Bloomberg News 23sep03
• The Real Story Behind the Food Crisis in Zambia -  Synthesis/Regeneration n.32, 19sep03
• Cancun: Farming Is Korean's Life and He Ends It in Despair -  NY Times 16sep03
• Cancun: Poorer Countries Pull Out of Talks Over World Trade  - NY Times 15sep03
• Cancun Fiasco WTO: END OF THE ROAD ? - Devinder Sharma 17sep03
• Brazil Pushes for South American Trade Pact -  NY Times 17sep03
• Cancun: Greed vs Equity - Editorial / The Times of India 16sep03
• Cancun: West to be Blamed for Collapse -  Editorial / New Straits Times (Malaysia) 16sep03
• Cancun Talks Collapse Over Rich's Rigidity - Editorial / The Daily Star (Bangladesh) 16sep03
• Cancun: WTO Failure Relief for Japan - Japan Today 16sep03
• Cancun: Content, Not Pontificating, Was What Killed Cancun / The Independent (Johannesburg, South Africa) 16sep03
• Rich Countries Urged Not to Engage in 'Black' Calculating: Economic Perspective -  People's Daily (Beijing) 15sep03
• U.S. Organic Farmer Speaks to Campesinos in Cancùn -  CropChoice 13sep03
• Protesters Climb Crane and Tell WTO Delegates: Leave! - AP 13sep03
• Africa Demands US Taste Own Medicine, with True Free Trade - The News International (Pakistan) 12jul03
• "For Who Are You Negotiating Now?" A Vigil for Lee Kyung-Hae  - Food First Daily Report from Cancún #5 12sep03
• Africa: Dr Tewolde Egziabher: US Challenge on GMOs Threatens Africa - Business Day (New Zealand) 12sep03
• Cancún "The WTO Kills Farmers": In Memory of Lee Kyung Hae -  Interhemispheric Resource Center 11sep03
• Cancún Eye Witness Account: Anti-WTO Protest Action First Hand News from Cancun, Mexico - Starhawk 10sep03
• Cancún: Poorer Nations Plead Farmers' Case at Trade Talks -  NY Times 11sep03
• Cancún: WTO Opens to Tragedy and Protest - Tom Hayden / AlterNet 11sep03
• The WTO’s Broken Promise  - InTheseTimes 10sep03
• Poor WTO Nations Want Rich Nations To Cut Farm Subsidies - AP 9sep03
• U.S. Opposes EU Effort to Test Chemicals for Health Hazards -  Wall Street Journal 9sep03
• WTO and Agriculture: The Great Trade Robbery - Devinder Sharma at the international debate "Agrarhandel –Stolperstein Fur Die WTO?" 2sep03 
• WTO Drug Deal Brings Farm Issues into Focus Ahead of Cancun Conference - Agence France-Presse 1sep03
• U.S. Must Revise Lumber Duties - Bloomberg News 30aug03
• Africa Greets a Medicines Pact With Anger and Criticism - Reuters 28aug03
• Genetically Modified Food Fears Seen Hurting Canada - Globe and Mail (Toronto) 28aug03
• Hondurans Riot Over IMF Reforms - BBC 27aug03
• How US Agricultural Policies are Destroying the Livelihoods of Mexican Corn Farmers - Oxfam International / Exec. Summ. / Briefing Paper 27aug03
  • US Farm Subsidies Fuel Mexico Corn Crisis - Press Release / Oxfam International 27aug03
  • U.S. Corn Subsidies Said to Damage Mexico - NY Times 27aug03
• Farewell My H1-Bs: Indian Tech Workers Depart, Change U.S. - Pacific News Service / Berkeley Daily Planet 19aug03
• Crippling Colas -  The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) 16aug03
• Deal Reached on Subsidies for Farmers - NY Times 14aug03

• Imperial Racist Fantasies and The Digitalization of Colonialism  - The Black Commentator 14aug03

• Nicaraguan Banana Workers May Finally Get Justice  - InTheseTimes 11aug03
• Delphi Globetrots to Cut White-Collar Pay  - Reuters 11aug03
• Tens of Thousands Rally in France, Trade Battle in Mind  - NY Times 9aug03
• The Debate on Zimbabwe Will Not Be Throttled  - The Black Commentator 31jul03
• Trade With China Is Heating Up As a Business and Political Issue  - Wall Street Journal 30jul03
• Bush's Biotech Shock and Awe Campaign: Food Bully - Counter Punch 29jul03
• Where the Good Jobs Are Going  - Time magazine 28jul03
• U.N. Will Back Entrepreneurs in Bid to Lift Poor Nations - NY Times 27jul03
• Harvesting Poverty: The Great Catfish War - EDITORIAL / NY Times 22jul03
  • Harvesting Poverty: The Rigged Trade Game - EDITORIAL / NY Times 20jul03
• IBM Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas  - NY Times 22jul03
• American Deficit Dependency: Kill or Cure, the Fallout's Global  - The Guardian Weekly (UK) 21jul03
• World Bank Wonders About Utility Privatizations -  Wall Street Journal 21jul03
• Bhopal and Dow: Members of Congress tell Dow, Face Up to Your Bhopal Liabilities - US Congressional Letter to Dow 18jul03
  • Bhopal's Lingering Fumes - Hindustan Times 24jul03
  • US Congresspersons ask Dow Chemical to take Bhopal Disaster Liabilities ICJB Press Release 22jul03
  • After 18 Years, India Wants Anderson ALOKE TIKKU / Statesman (Kolkata, India) 28jun03
• Trade War Feared as WTO Rules Against US Steel Tariffs  - Guardian Weekly 17jul03
• Sinking US Dollar Could Drag World Economy Under  - The Observer (UK) 10jul03
• George Soros - NS Profile - New Statesman 2jun03 (with review by Centre for Research on Globalisation 4jul03
• WTO/FTAA, Farming, and Food Security - Fact Sheet / Global Exchange 5jul03
• WTO Conference Scheduled for October in Beijing  - People's Daily (Beijing) 3jul03
• Bush to Name Ex-Lilly CEO to Run AIDS Fund: Randall Tobias  - Washington Post 2jul03
• Open Fire and Open Markets: Strategy of an Empire - Food First Backgrounder Jul03
• Bhopal: After 18 Years, India Wants Anderson - Statesman (Kolkata, India) 28jun03
• Support Workers’ Rights, Family Farmers, Safe Food, and Global Justice - United Farm Workers (UFW) 23jun03
• EU: Talks Collapse on U.S. Efforts to Open Europe to Biotech Food  - NY Times 20jun03
• Venezuelan Move to Replace US$ with the €uro  - VHeadline.com 18jun03
• Making Trinkets in China, and a Deadly Dust: Living in the Globalized World  -  NY Times 18jun03
• The Homeless in Japan Find A Place in Cities' Public Parks: Long Economic Slump - Wall Street Journal 18jun03
• U.S. files WTO Case Against Mexico / Demanda de EUA contra Mexico en la OMC - Reuters 17jun03
• Sacramento USDA Ministerial: Wild Salmon Fisheries Threatened by Genetically Engineered Fish - Dan Bacher 15jun03
• Africa: Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us - Amadou Toumani Touri & Blaise Compaori [Compaoré] / NY Times 11jul03
• Globalization and GMOs - Tom Hayden / The Nation 5jun03
• Bosnia Exempts U.S. from International Criminal Court Suits - Reuters 6jun03
  • Currently the Rome Statute of the ICC has 139 Signatories and 90 Ratifications- CICC 6jun03
• Bush's Evangelising About Food Chills European Hearts -  Jeremy Rifkin / The Guardian 2jun03
• South Africa : A Shattered Dream - The Ecologist Jun03
• EU: Trade Rows Loom Over GM Export Treaty - London Times 28may03
• G8 Behind the Barricades: Global Economy  - Asia Times (Hong Kong) 28may03
• US: Beef Industry's Dirty Secret: U.S. Lags on Safety Standards  - Wall Street Journal 27may03
• Kurdish Burghers Blaze Capitalist Trail: Iraqi Border Town's Enterprise Culture is Model for Rest of Country  - Washington Post 26may03
• EU Blasts Back at Bush Over Biotech Food - Agence France Presse 26may03
• Pakistan: Ready or Not, Here it Comes - The News International Pakistan 25may03
• Pakistan: A Field Not so Level: WTO Coming to Pakistan - The News International Pakistan 25may03
• Bush Links Europe's Ban on Bio-Crops With Hunger - NY Times 22may03
• Bush Lashes Out at Europe  - Washington Post, LA Times & ENS 22may03

• Bush Commencement Address to United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut 21may03

• Argentina: Monsanto Wants Extended Seed Royalties -  Cropchoice 22may03

• Bush Commencement Address to United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut 21may03

• TIA: Pentagon Readies Total Information Awareness system (TIA): Massive Spying System  - AP 20may03

• Unilever, Monsanto Large-Scale Child Labour in India's Cotton Seed Production - Indian Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) 17may03 

• GM Foods: Towards an Apocalypse - Devinder Sharma (India) 17may03

• Empire and the Capitalists - Commentary / Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University 15may03

• Bush Rearms to Combat European Ban on Biotech Food: But the World Doesn't Want the Stuff - Bloomberg 15may03

• US Launches GM Trade War on EU  - BBC News Online 13may03

  • US Challenges Europe on Genetically Modified Food  - NY Times 13may03

  • US and Cooperating Countries File WTO Case Against EU Moratorium on Biotech Foods and Crops - Press Release by USTR & USDA 13may03

• The Economics of Empire: Notes on the Washington Consensus  - Harper's Magazine May03

• Brazil: Neoliberalism with a "Human Face"  - Global Research 25apr03

• US Sugar Industry Threatens to Scupper WHO  - The Guardian (UK) 21apr03

• World Agricultural Forum: Neutral, Inclusive  - ZNet 18apr03

• NATO's Shadow Over South Asia - Outlook India 18apr03

• Indonesia May Dump Dollar; Rest of Asia Too? - Bloomberg 17apr03

• Terminator Technology: Who Calls the Shots at UPOV? - ETC Group 17apr03

• EU Takes 12 Member States to Court over GMO Law - Reuters 10apr03

• China: Export Apple of China's Eye Is, er, Apples  - NY Times 4apr03

• Wal-Mart: Supermarket Smackdown  - Motley Fool 3apr03

• US Trade Representative Releases 2003 Inventory of Trade Barriers - USTR Press Release 1apr03

• Trade Brings Riches, But Not to Mexico's Poor  - Washington Post 22mar03

• Bush Dreams of Changing Not Just Regime but Region  - Wall Street Journal 21mar03

• Waves of War Protests Roll Around the World - AP 21mar03

• US-Led War Might Prevail In Court Despite Backlash  - Wall Street Journal 20mar03

• WTO Negotiations Could Miss Deadline on Agriculture Snag - Wall Street Journal 18mar03

• US Unilateralism Worries Trade Officials  - NY Times 17mar03

• EU Lamy Expresses Concern Over Trade Issues With India AP 14mar03

• Zoellick Seeks International Coalition for WTO Biotech Case  - Food Chemical News 10mar03

• India Should Present Alternative Farm Draft At WTO - Ashok B Sharma / Financial Express (India) 10mar03

• America's Second Experiment with Democracy  - AgbioIndia 10mar03

• Indian Villagers Walk on Diamonds, but Stay Poor  - Reuters 9mar03

• US Appeals to WTO Panel On Canadian Wheat Dispute  - Dow Jones News Wire 7mar03

• Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry - Editorial / NY Times 3mar03

• Mexico: Showdown in Mexico as Unions Fight Privatization -  Street Sheet Mar03

• Globalization And The Nature Of War - SSI Mar03

• Farmers say that Genetic Engineering Compromises Farmers' Freedom to Farm - PRNewswire 27feb03

• NGOs Call for Rejection of WTO Agriculture Modalities Paper  - Third World Network Report (Geneva) 24feb03

• Carrying the Torch for the Corporate Cadre  - CropChoice 19feb03

• Is Agriculture the WTO's Achilles' Heel? - Walden Bello  / Focus on the Global South 19feb03

• For Most of Us, Globalization is Vicious Exploitation - James Goodman, Dairy Farmer / CropChoice 13feb03
• TRIPs: Para 6 Solution of the Doha Declaration, Article 30 of TRIPS and Non-Prohibition of Exports under the TRIPS Agreement Daya Shanker / University of Wollongong 9feb03 
• The Quarrel Over Iraq Gets Ugly - NY Times 26jan03
• Ashcroft Criticized at World Economic Forum  - AP 24jan03
• U.S. Food Firms Face Backlash Over Possible WTO Complaint  - Wall Street Journal 21jan03
• EU's Nielson Blasts U.S. "Lies" in GM Food Row  - Reuters 20jan03

• Mexican Farmers Renew NAFTA Protests - AP 20jan03

• India: Feeding the Farmers - Devinder Sharma 15jan03

• TRIPs: An Appeal to Developing Countries - Daya Shanker / AgBioIndia 14jan03

• US ready to declare War over GM Food  - Financial Times 9jan03

• Produce and Perish: The Fallacy of Raising Crop Yields  - Devinder Sharma 7jan03

• China: Paradoxes Go with China's Glittering Economic Growth  - Peoples' Daily (China) 6jan03

• Can Wal-Mart Get Any Bigger?  - Time 5jan03

• Viva Brazil !  - Le Monde diplomatique Jan03