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September 10th, 2009 : In Memory of Lee, Join Mobilizations Around the World
Source: La Via Campesina. 9 September 2009 Today we celebrate September 10, International Day of peasant struggles against the WTO. Every year when this day comes, we remember September 10,…
2009/09/12
Why we're protesting the G20
Source: SocialistWorker.org. 10 September 2009. Paul LeBlanc, a long-time socialist and author of Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, is active with the Anti-War Committee of the Thomas…
2009/09/11
Global Unions’ Statement to the Pittsburgh G20 Summit
Source: The Progressive Economics Forum. 9 September 2009. Global Unions ‘Pittsburgh Declaration’ (24-25 September 2009) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. The G20 leaders are meeting in Pittsburgh…
The Progressive Economics Forum
2009/09/10
The Virtues of Deglobalization
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus. 3 September 2009. The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization.…
Walden Bello
2009/09/09
Crisis is not over for world leaders
Less than a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the banks are back. Puffed up with profits, they are flexing their muscles again. This reality haunted the G20 finance ministers in London last weekend as they met to prepare for the summit that will take place in Pittsburgh in the US later this month. This will be the third meeting of the heads of government of the world’s biggest economies in less than a year—a sign of the severity of the present crisis.
Alex Callinicos
2009/09/09
Dams in Development: Perspectives
Dam construction has been for several decades an active industry, in both the industrialized and the developing world. In northern industrialized countries, such as Canada, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and the former Soviet Union, dams have been developed as important sources of hydroelectricity, as providers of irrigation water, or as instruments of regional economic development.
2009/02/15
Dams as Development
Original Text by: Prof. Stephen Bocking, Assistant Professor, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Dams and National Pride Dams and International Aid Dams…
2009/02/15
Dams and the Politics of Development
Original Text by: Prof. Stephen Bocking, Assistant Professor, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Dams are about much more than just providing electricity or water. In societies…
2009/02/15
Dams as Domination
Dams represent one of the strongest manifestations of the urge to dominate nature, regulate it, and turn it towards the uses of humanity. They epitomize the notion that it is appropriate, even necessary, for humans to assert control over nature: that a river can’t be allowed to exist free, following its own rhythm, but that humanity must control it, using technology.
2009/02/05
China and Africa: The Real Barriers to Win-Win
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus. March 9, 2007 Over the last five years, Angola has lost to graft as much as $4 billion in oil revenues -- equivalent to 10% of its GDP. As a result of…
Ian Taylor
2007/03/09
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