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

• Controversial GM Foods may Threaten Food Security  - Daily Times (Pakistan) 22dec02

• Smart Border Declaration - United Sates-Canada / Ottawa, Canada 12dec01

• Peasant Farmers Revisit World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)  - Zambia Daily Mail 9dec02

• Globalization Gets Mixed Grades in U.S. Universities  - Wall Street Journal 2dec02

• Levi Strauss and the Price We Pay  - LA Times 1dec02

• Canadian Study Shows Structural Adjustment of Ag Policies Reap Devastating Effects for Farmers  - The Agribusiness Examiner  2dec02

• Proposals for WTO Agriculture Negotiations - Devinder Sharma / AgBioIndia 26nov02

• Cheap Products' Human Cost: China's Success in the PC Revolution  - San Jose Mercury News 24nov02

• Where Computers Go to Die: Poor Cities in China Become Dumping Ground for E-Waste  - San Jose Mercury News 23nov02

• Differences between US and NATO Widen - Opinion / People's Daily (China) 21nov02

• Canada's Ban of Cosmetic Pesticides Threatened Under NAFTA - EarthVision Environmental News 15nov02

• Federal Court Grants Go-Ahead to WTO Protester's Case - Trial Lawyers For Public Justice 14nov02

• GM Labelling: Canada is Crawling before industry and USA  -  Council of Canadians 13nov02

• Wal-Mart Sells Milk & Butter Below Cost: Hurts Competition: German Court  - AP 12nov02

• World Bank Continues to Back Polluting Incinerators  - Inter Press Service 12nov02

• Interview of Bill Gates: India is more than a market for me  - The Hindu Business Line 10nov02

• WTO's Secret Parleys - AgBioIndia 11nov02

• France: McDonald's Restaurant Burns Down in Eastern France - Ananova 7nov02

• Africa: Zoellick Letter to House and Senate Reveals USA Trade Designs on Africa - AFRICA FAITH & JUSTICE NETWORK 4nov02

• CGIAR: World Bank Food Scientists Face Farmer Anger, Water Warnings  - ENS 31oct02

• Malawi: Structural damage: The causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis  -  World Development Movement 29oct02

• NAFTA: A Cautionary Tale - Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher / Foreign Policy In Focus 24oct02

• How Agricultural Subsidies in Rich Countries Hurt Poor Nations  - Wole Akande (Nigeria) / YellowTimes.org 19oct02

• Rosia Montana: Romanian Gold-Mine Loan Is Blocked by Wolfensohn  - Wall Street Journal 11oct02

• UPOV -- Farmers' Rights in Jeopardy  - AgBioIndia 10oct02

  • The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Description

• Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report for 2002  - Executive Summary 2oct02

  • Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report for 2002 Blasts China on Rights  - SF Chronicle 4oct02

• Global Pillage  - SF Chronicle 29sep02

• Despite EU Deal, Germany Won't Exempt U.S. From International Criminal Court  - Wall Street Journal 1oct02

• Just Say Yes  - The Ecologist Oct02

• Grow Your Own Democracy  - The Ecologist Oct02

• Rich Nations Are Criticized for Enforcing Trade Barriers  - NY Times 30sep02

• Free Trade Fallout: Seeking lobsters, Miskito Indians find death  (Food as a global issue)  - SF Chronicle 29sep02

• IMF Protests Met With Police Presence  - Washington Post 27sep02

• Biopiracy - Its Now Official  - AgBioIndia 25sep02

• Bankrolling Polluting Technology: The World Bank Group and Incineration  (Summary) - GAIA Sep02

• Of World Bank, Toilet Paper and Washing Soap  - AgBioIndia 23sep02

• World Bank to Fund Toxic Plastic Production in India - Press Release 18sep02

• Europe Threatens Trade Retaliation  - NY Times 14sep02

  • European Commission publishes list of products that could be subject to countermeasures - Press Release 13sep02

  • EU Product List of Countermeasures Journal of the European Communities 13sep02

• Mary ( Robinson) Quite Contrary IAN WILLIAMS / InTheseTimes 13sep02

• The Rise of the Corporate Monster - AgBioIndia 5sep02

• Dig Deeper than Discrimination - Editorial / CropChoice 5sep02

• Gwadar, Pakistan: Navy Shots 4 Fishermen Protesting Plastic Nets that Kill Marine Life - Press Release 2sep02

• 7,000 Protesters Challenge S. Africa Summit  - Washington Post 1sep02

• Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy - Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (UK) Sep02

• EU welcomes WTO award of US $ 4 B of Countermeasures Renews Call for US compliance with WTO Rules - EU Press Release 30aug02

• U.S. Coordinates Drug Sweep in the Balkans and Central Asia -  NY Times 25aug02

• Global Food Fight Over Soy Sauce Labeling -  SF Chronicle 25aug02

• EU Rejects U.S. Plea to Tell Africa Modified Corn Is Safe - Wall Street Journal  23aug02

• World Bank warns on sustainable development  - Financial Times (UK) 22aug02

• Rufus Yerxa Trading Places - Financial Times (UK) 20aug02

• Fidel's Appetite for U.S. Food Is More Than a Hill of Beans  - Wall Street Journal 14aug02

• Nations Joining International Criminal Court Lose US Military Aid - NY Times 10aug02

• Apartheid Victims Suing Global Corporations - SF Chronicle 9aug02

• White House Sets New Hurdles For Suits Over Rights Abuses -  Wall Street Journal 7aug02

• NAFTA panel says cannot rule on Methanex MTBE case -  Reuters 7aug02

• Famine as commerce: Africa's tragedy - Devander Sharma / AgBioIndia 6aug02

• Congress Passes "Fast Track" Trade Bill: Time For Fair Trade for Fishermen? - Fishlink Subgills 2aug02

• Bush gets Narrow Victory for Fast-Track: No Clear Mandate  -  Wall Street Journal 29jul02

• Displacement is a Global Crisis - Street Sheet Jul02

• Intellectual Property Enhances Corporate Monopoly and Bioserfdom  - Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture / Island Press Jul02

• In Eastern Europe, Workers Go Sour on Foreign Owners -  Wall Street Journal 28jun02

• Tariff challenge at the WTO  -  The Hindu 22jun02

• Globalizing Clinical Research: Big Pharma Tries Out First World Drugs on Unsuspecting Third World Patients  - The Nation  1jul02

• Sinn Fein Rising Tom Hayden / The Nation 24jun02

• The World Food Summit: What Went Wrong? - Peter Rosset / In Focus 7jun02

• Unmade in America: The true cost of a global assembly line -  Harper's Jun02

• Rebel With a Cause: The Re-Education of Joseph Stiglitz -  The Nation 10jun02

• World Bank/IMF Forces Famine on Malawi Ann Pettifor / Opinion / DebtChannel.org Jul02

• U.S. Opposes Right to Food at World Summit - Peter Rosset / Food First 30jun02

• WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Suitable Model for a Global Food System? - Foreign Policy In Focus Jun02

• Rubber Bullets: Blunt and penetrating injuries caused by rubber bullets during the Israeli-Arab conflict in October, 2000 - The Lancet  25may02

• Sidetracking Bush's Free Trade Push  - InTheseTimes 24may02

• Will technology solve refugee problems or wind up being James Bond-style nonsense? - AP 19may02

• China sounds alarm over fast-growing gap between rich and poor - AP 11may02

• U.N. Estimates More than 21 Million Refugees in 2000 - Xinhua News Agency 11may02

• Gates Fights Malnutrition With Cheese, Ketchup and Other Fortified Food Items -  Wall Street Journal 9may02

• U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues -  Foreign Policy In Focus May02

• Somos Todos Americanos -  El Pais (Spain) 27apr02

• Rules, Regulations of Global Economy Are Increasingly Being Set in Brussels - Wall Street Journal 23apr02

• Kissinger on Trial  -  SF Chronicle 21apr02

• Turmoil in Venezuela Causes Jitters at CITGO Home -  NY Times 13apr02

• Multinationals Resources Center Researching World Bank Group Incinerator Funding 11apr02

• World Criminal Court Is Ratified; Praised by U.N., Opposed by U.S. -  NY Times 11apr02

• Life of Western Cow Compared with that of the Third World Farmer - Devinder Sharma / The Ecologist 22mar02

• The Locals Know What Aid They Need  - The Independent (UK) 21mar02

• Letter From China  -  The Nation v.274, n.8, 4mar02

• Shall We Leave It to the Experts? - Arundhati Roy / The Nation  18feb02

• Bechtel Battles against dirt-poor Bolivia  -  SF Chronicle 2feb02

• Police Portraying Protesters as 'Terrorists' - AP 29jan02

• 'A Better World is Possible' World Social Forum - Anuradha Mittal / Food First 28jan02 

• South Africa: Can't pay, won't pay: Anti-privatisation march in Johannesburg - IRIN 24jan02

• You Get What You Can Pay For: Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa -  Alternatives 2002

• Trading Democracy - Review of Bill Moyers'/ PBS Special Documentary / AlterNet 15jan02

• Wal-Mart Faces Risks If Its Safeway Bid Wins - Wall Street Journal 15jan02

• Armored Cadillac Required in Global Economy  -  AP 8jan02

• Argentina: IMF show state revolts  - Le Monde diplomatique Jan02

• National Convention of WTO WIRODHI BHARATIYA JAN ABHIYAN (Indian People's Campaign Against WTO) in New Delhi 18dec01 

• High-Paying U.S. Nanny Positions Puncture Fabric of Family Life in Developing Nations  - Wall Street Journal 18dec01

• Multinational Giant Cargill Ignores the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to make Salt - Prof. Hinestroza / La Universidad del Zulia 16dec01

• 80,000 Protesters Descend Upon EU Summit  - Wall Street Journal 14dec01

• Global hunt for terrorists a first Police from 120 nations join forces in unprecedented civil effort -  SF Chronicle 29nov01

• Philippine Farmers Reject US "Support in Agriculture" - KMP News Release 25nov01

• WTO Doha Ministerial "We Take Over" - Devinder Sharma 17nov01

• Protesters call for trade reforms before WTO meeting  - Reuters 1nov01

• WTO nervous for Qatar meeting  -  Washington Times 1nov01

• U.S. Sets Up WTO Meeting Evacuation Plan - Wall Street Journal 1nov01

• Canada forced to honour Bayer’s patent on ciprofloxacin (Cipro) - British Medical Journal 27oct01

• When Golden Arches Are Too Red, White and Blue  - NY Times 14oct01

• Great Leap Forward: Tech Into Plowshares  -  Fortune 15oct01

• WTO Approves Admission of Taiwan, One Day After China Was Approved  - AP 18sep01

• IMF and World Bank Cancel This Year's Annual Meetings  - Wall Street Journal 17sep01

• Globalizers Pretend to Help the Poor  -  Russell Mokhiber & Robert Weissman / The Progressive Populist 15sep01

• George Washington Univ. to Shut Down During IMF Protests (Free Speech?) - Washington Post 7sep01

• Trade Issues Facing U.S. Horticulture in the WTO Negotiations - (abstract) ERS/USDA 30aug01

• World Officials Are to Meet in Mexico To Restart Global Trade Discussions  - AP 30aug01

• EU Expects U.S. to Comply with Tax Ruling  - Reuters 20aug01

• IMF Wrong Again - David Malpass / Wall Street Journal 17aug01

• Italian Police Acknowledge EXCESSIVE FORCE at G-8 Summit  -  AP 8aug01

• Presidents Under Pressure -  Le Monde diplomatique Aug01

• Genoa Protests: Democracy at the Barricades - Susan George / Le Monde diplomatique Aug01

• Globalization, Inc.: Concentration in Corporate Power: The Unmentioned Agenda  - RAFI Communique Jul/Aug01

• Top WTO Officials Warn Time Is Running Out for Trade Agenda  - Wall Street Journal 30jul01

• Echelon - EU group denounces U.S. spying E-mail, faxes being monitored  - SF Chronicle 30jul01

• Don't Dismiss Globalisation Protests - Letter to Editor of SF Chronicle 24jul01

• Provocateurs in Genoa at G8 Summit: Eyewitness Account  -  Stefano Agnoletto 23jul01

• Antiglobalization Activists Are Shifting Focus to Multinational Corporations  -  Wall Street Journal 23jul01

• Italy Says Protesters Abetted Rioters At G-8 Summit  - Wall Street Journal 23jul01

• Bush Fumbles the Ball at G8 Attempts at Texas Sweet Talk Flop  -  Washington Post 22jul01

• Italian Police First Shoot Carlo Guliani in the Head, Then Run Over Him Twice - Indymedia.org 20jul01

• Political pileup on Mexican trucks Mineta must facilitate  -  SF Chronicle 19jul01

• Catfish Case Muddies Waters For Bush 'Fast Track' Plans  -  Wall Street Journal 13jul01

• Drop The Debt  - Worldwatch Institute 6jul01

• Capitalism's "True Self" - Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia / PBS Interview 2jul01

• Farewell to the Nation-State "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?" Henry K  -  Time 2jul01

• One Country at a Time: World Bank Whistle Blower Details Globalization Squeeze-Plan   - The Observer (UK) 6jun01

• Empowering Democracy: Challenging Corporate Power; Demanding Accountability - Conference Report Gary/GRRN Liss 4jun01

• Economic Globalization Widens Wealth Gap: UN Official  - People's Daily Online (China) 9jun01

• Globalization Defined  -  Richard L. Grossman / POCLAD 29may01

• Wal-Mart Gets More Aggressive In Campaign to Dominate Brazil  - Wall Street Journal 25may01

• Bush Asks for Fast-Track Authority On Trade, Avoiding Social Concerns  -  Wall Street Journal 11may01

• In Praise of Free Trade  - Editorial / Wall Street Journal 11may01

• WTO Rules Against U.S.'s Quota on Yarn From Pakistan in Latest Textiles Setback - Wall Street Journal 27apr01

• Aboriginal Nations See Boon in Free Trade  - New York Times 24apr01

• In Québec's Streets, Fervor, Fears and a Gamut of Issues  -  New York Times 22apr01

• Bush Links Trade With Democracy at Quebec Talks  -  New York Times 22apr01

• Bush Not Fast Track -  Reuters 20apr01

• Western Hemisphere Leaders Arrive To Find a Tense and Fortified Quebec  - AP 20apr01

• "Forgive and Forget" Won't Fix Third World Debt  - Worldwatch Institute 17apr01

• FTAA - (Free Trade Area Agreement) - The Gallon Environment Letter 16apr01

• FTAA Protesting More of the Same  - Naomi Klein / TomPaine.com 14apr01

• 5 Environmental Reasons to Oppose the FTAA  -  Sierra Club of Canada Apr01

• India: Human Chain 300 Kilometers-Long by 3 Lac School Youth - Press Release / AZADI BACHAO ANDOLAN 20mar01

• Food First Releases a New Report on Land Reform  -  15mar01

• NAFTA's Powerful Little Secret  - New York Times 11mar01

• When Is a Haircut Not a Haircut? When the IMF Is the Barber  -  WS J 23feb01

• a20: Quebec, April 20 2001 Update 11feb01

• Globalization Threat to World's Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Diversity United Nations Environment Programme 8feb01

• Police Fire Water Cannons, Tear Gas,  Rubber Pellets: Activists Protest World Economic Forum Zurich   - AP 27jan01

• Fewer Borders for Global Accounting  -  NYT 26jan01

• Ecuador adopts U.S. currency to stabilize economy, but the move is causing a cultural identity crisis -  SFC 25jan01

• Groups urge Canada to defend itself in NAFTA ruling - Reuters 18jan01

• US Lobbyists Courting China set up shop in world's largest market to smooth way for U.S. business -  SFC 9jan01

• Grants, not loans, for the developing world? - Editorial - The Lancet 6jan01

• 'Battle Of Seattle'  - Alexander Cockburn applauds gains but also points to failings - SFC 19dec00

• Reining in globalization for the benefit of all countries - Earth Times 15dec00

• WTO anniversary protests cost Seattle $555,000 - AP 13dec00

• U.S. Asks WTO Panel to Intervene In Telecom Dispute With Mexico - AP 12dec00

• Two WTO Pepper-Sprayed WTO Protesters Settle For $100,000 - AP 12dec00

• EU Adopts Pact To Shift Power, Add Members s many as 13 countries can join -  Washington Post 11dec00

• Protesters target EU summit - CNN 6dec00

• World Bank Says Developing World Can Expect Growth in Next Decade - WSJ 6dec00

• WTO protest anniversary turns ugly - AP 1dec00

• Conned No More - David R. Brower / Alliance Magazine v.2, n.1

• Protesters Plan a Return Trip To Seattle for WTO Anniversary - AP 29nov00

• Rural China at Crossroads With nation's entry into WTO, small farmers will find it hard to compete - SFC 28nov00

• EU Aims for Huge Sanctions On the U.S. in Retaliatory Move - WSJ 20nov00

• 'Slow Food' Battles Against The Bland, Bad and Boring - AP 20nov00

• Peaceful Globalization Protest in Cincinnati Has Rough End - AP 18nov00

• Charges dropped against alleged protest leaders John Sellers & Terrence McGuckin - AP 16nov00

• NAFTA Flouts Global Toxic Waste Dumping Treaty- BAN Press Release 15nov00

• Environment, labor issues strangle trade talks at APEC summit  -  AP 14nov00

• NAFTA Tribunal Ruling S.D. Myers Inc., an Ohio-based Toxic Waste Disposal Company 13nov00

• Blair urged to drop support for Turkish Dam - London Independent 12nov00

• Barshefsky Predicts WTO Trade Talks - AP 11nov00

• Beef and the World Trade Organisation - BBC 7nov00

• Activist's diary: WTO Secrets -  Sierra Nov/Dec00

• Impact of Globalization on Public Health in UK - J.Pub.H.Med. Abstract. - Sep00

• Vandana Shiva on Globalization - India Currents Aug00

• Seattle police violated rights, report says An ACLU assessment of last fall's WTO meeting faults the city's preparations - AP 6jul00

• Excerpts from Globalization in Your Own Front Yard  -  Campaign for Labor Rights Jul00

• Poverty & Globalisation - VANDANA SHIVA / BBC Reith Lecture Series 14may00

• What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis. The Insider -  Joseph Stiglitz, past chief economist & VP of the World Bank / The New Republic 17apr00

• Fidel Castro's Speech   -  South Summit 12apr00

• The Bell Tolls for the IMF, World Bank  -  The Progressive 12apr00

• The Globalization of the Nuclear Power Industry - Nuclear Monitor Apr00

• Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply - Introduction - Vandana Shiva, South End Press 2000

• Globalizing Solutions Framework of action to move biodiversity up the global agenda - Our Planet v.105 UNEP 

• Take Agriculture out of the WTO! Resist Imperialist Globalization! - Rafael V. Mariano, KMP at People’s Assembly "Say NO to WTO!" 29nov99

• Who's In Charge of the Global Economy?  - Maude Barlow / Council of Canadians Fall 1999

• The WTO: What's at Stake? -  YES! Fall 99 

• Supachai Panitchpakdi, the World Trade chief-in-waiting - BBC News 31aug99

• Why We Are Here Remember Seattle! Forging an Alliance - David Brower for the World Trade Organization Summit, Seattle 1999

• Manifesto for the Fast World - Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times 28mar1999

• Nike Shoe Plant in Vietnam Is Called Unsafe for Workers - New York Times 8nov97 (includes critique of Nike audit by CorpWatch)

• Ann Veneman - For all the grapes in China - American City Business Journals 29aug97

• Project For The New American Century - Statement of Principles 3jun1997

• Globalization, International Law, and Emerging Infectious Diseases -  Emerging Infectious Diseases Apr/Jun/96

• Leaked Internal Memo - Lawrence Summers / Chief Economist of the World Bank 12dec91