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"The sacrifice of Compañero Lee was not in vain, it gave us the energy to derail the WTO talks in Cancun, and his spirit of struggle will live on in our hearts as we keep fighting for that better world that is possible."

For the past 30 years there has been a campaign to demonize Arafat in the media. I don't remember one single article saying anything positive about Yasser Arafat.

Soon after the Uruguay Round Agreement [of the WTO] was settled, Korean fellow farmers and myself realized that our destinies were out of our hands. We were utterly powerless.

The world movement against the globalisation of death and destruction is experiencing one of its brightest moments in Cancun today.

On September 10, opening day of the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization, Lee Kyung Hae climbed the fence that separates the excluded from the included and took his life with a knife to the heart.

Patent kanunlarıyla şirketler artan oranda korunmakta, patent tanım ve kapsamları genişletilmekte ve böylece şirketlerdeki tekelleşme artmaktadır.

It's been my experience that a lot of people have trouble dealing with the idea that those most anxious to wage war are usually tied directly to the weapons manufacturers.

Four months after President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat in Iraq, the level of American as well as British military casualties in post-conquest Iraq has passed the numbers killed during the first phase of the conflict.

As World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun draw nearer and the voices of capitalist globalization grow louder, now may be a good time to analyze their ideology with an eye to what modern capitalism is really all about.

On December 30th, 1900, amidst the heated debates about US military campaigns in Asia and the Philippines and about the "burden" on the shoulders of British gentlemen serving the Empire in her "savage" colonies, Mark Twain bitterly saluted the new century

It dies hard. It dies very hard. The notion that terrorist acts against the United States can be explained by envy and irrational hatred, and not by what the United States does in and to the world -- i.e., US foreign policy -- is alive and well.

"Why don't these damned oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it."

Eğer Arjantin ödenemeyen borçlarının gereğinden fazlasını ödemeyi kabul ederse, belirsiz bir süre boyunca tasarruf ve durgunluğa mahkum edilebilir- bir krizden diğerine topallarken, tahvil sahipleri, artan bütçe fazlasını çekmek için hükümeti vatandaşlarını sürekli olarak cezalandırıp cezalandırmaya

Şaron'un çözümü Batı Şeria'nın ve Gazze'nin Yahudileştirilmesi ve ilhakıdır ve bunun gerçek olabilmesi için Filistinlilerin tarihi ödünler vermesini istiyor. Tarihteki en kötü ırkçı apartheid sistemi altında, sürekli kölelikte yaşamak için Filistinlilerin haklarından vazgeçmesini istiyor...

"We, the indigenous, wish to speak to you of our right to be Mexicans. We do not need to change our culture, our clothing, our language, our way of prayer, our way of working and respecting the land, we cannot stop being indigenous in order to be recognized as Mexicans."

Kimsenin fizik kanunları karşısında dokunulmazlığı yoktur, Bush Karteli'nin bile. Üretim düşerken yeni petrol çıkarmada azalan verimler kanunu geçerli olacaktır... Bugün dünya enerji arzı düşüş eğiliminde, ve ekonomimiz enerji arzının izin verdiğinden öte büyüyemez. Stephen James Kerr yazdı

Get out of the way. American capitalism has declared war on the laws of physics.

In negotiations in Vienna under the auspices of the UN, the US and the EU are also battling over a proposed global Convention Against Corruption. Europe wants the pact to cover businesses and governments; the US wants it restricted to governments.

Tarımsal sübvansiyonları kaldırmanın siyasi intihar anlamına geleceğini çok iyi bilen gelişmiş ülkeler, kendi sübvansiyonlarını korumaktan öte katmerlediler.

Görünen o ki Bush yönetiminin terörizme karşı kullandığı "ya bizdensin ya onlardan" formülü, Mısır gibi gelişmekte olan ülkelere uygulanan ticaret politikasında da geçerli.

At probably the last officially organized public symposium in Geneva before the forthcoming WTO Ministerial at Cancun in early September, the writing is clearly on the wall: agriculture has for all practically purposes been abandoned in the ongoing multilateral negotiations.

As the wrangling over the roadmap continues and the Palestinian people are subjected to unprecedented new forms of horror, we may find it helpful to put the details of that horror to one side for a moment, and sketch a general overview of our situation. By Mustafa Barghouti

The Bush Administration seems to be applying its "for us or against us" anti-terrorism formula to trade policy, particularly if the country is a developing one like Egypt. Similarly, when Croatia and Thailand raised health objections to GM crops, the U.S.

The globalization of power has demonstrated throughout the world that it has entered its most aggressive stage by making military war its primary weapon of domination.

Today in Washington you can hear terms like 'Iraqgate' and 'Weaponsgate' bandied about, but such obtuse labels do not provide an explanation for the profound movements that are taking place.

Accusing Europe of undercutting efforts to feed starving Africans by blocking the use of genetically modified crops which could 'dramatically' boost productivity, the American administration fired the first missile by formally announcing to launch a complaint with the WTO against the European Union

History has forgiven Churchill for his role in the Allied invasion of the Soviet Union in 1917.

Batının merkez medyası Afrika hakkında gerçekleri yazsaydı, okuduğumuz haberler çok farklı olurdu. Mesela "Piyasa ideolojisi Etiyopya'da kıtlığa yol açtı" diye manşetten gürlerdi New York Times.

One hundred and forty years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that remains a task too heavy for presidents to perform. The truth remains too terrible for Americans to bear.

Back in 1923, the situation in Palestine was markedly different from what we have been familiar with for the past half-century. The eventual rise of the state of Israel was considered a pipe dream, even by most of the Zionist immigrants of the day.