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Contribution to the Vienna Conference of the Club of Rome, 16-17 April 2009
Susan George

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in every age of the world to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind," said Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations. Either we learn to keep the market but eliminate the rapacity and environmental destructiveness of globalised...

G-20 Summit sorely disappoints
Praful Bidwai
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have declared the death of the Washington Consensus. However the G20 summit’s decision to entrust the most neoliberal institution of the IMF with overseeing the process suggests we have missed a precious opportunity for radically reforming the global economy...
The anti-climate summit
Walden Bello
The G8 position on climate is a giant step backward that may have effectively undermined the prospects for an effective global climate strategy for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol that is expected to be finalized at the crucial UN meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009....
Civil society's choice at the G8 summit
Walden Bello
Japanese and Asian movements’ should learn from previous summits and reject attempts to salvage the discredited reputation of the rich nations and instead lead the struggle to make the Hokkaido Summit the final summit of the G8.

The Group of Eight came into being in 1975 as the G7 at...

Japan follows Singapore in dealing with foreign activists
Walden Bello

Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese authorities’ heavy handed approach to security for the official...

Environmental groups slam G8 leaders for not doing more on global warming
Walden Bello
 Walden Bello interviewed by Amy Goodman

In Japan, world leaders at the G8 summit have announced they would work toward cutting carbon emissions by at least 50...

Japanese welcome
Susan George

After a dozen hours in the air, I’ve been parked for four hours in a series of airless rooms at Tokyo’s Narita airport where an acutely disorganized official dithers and rushes ineffectually from one office to another. First stop was a room with some Mexicans, probably suspected of drug...

Make the Toyako summit 2008 the last G8 summit!
Walden Bello
 Walden Bello interviewed by Ogura Toshimaru

Ogura: A different initiative to mobilize Japanese people against the G8 summit which is taking place in 2008, in Toyako town, Hokkaido Prefecture, is emerging. How do you see the present G8 strategy and what kind of struggle is important and necessary for movements against the G8,...

«Nous n'avons pas les millions de Klaus Schwab»
Susan George
 Entretien avec Susan George. Par Simon Petite
Susan George connaît bien la Suisse. Elle a participé à la conférence de l'Autre Davos à Zurich en 1999, lorsque l'idée du Forum social mondial (FSM) a germé. Elle est membre fondatrice d'Attac-France et a été vice-présidente de l'association de 1999 à 2006.

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The Blockade of Heiligendamm
Boris Kagarlitsky
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