WTO

Las lecciones de la batalla de Seattle y sus secuelas

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Programmes: 
Poder Corporativo
Article type: 
Article
စာေရးသူ: 
Walden Bello
တည္းျဖတ္သူ: 
Beatriz Martínez
ဘာသာျပန္သူ: 
Christine Lewis Carroll
Teaser: 

Walden Bello comparte algunas reflexiones sobre lo que significó Seattle para los cambios en los sistemas de conocimiento, analiza cómo, a pesar de la profunda crisis del neoliberalismo, el capital financiero ha conseguido mantener un enorme poder, y apela a una nueva visión integral de una sociedad deseable.

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Discurso pronunciado en la sesión plenaria de apertura de la 111ª reunión de la Asociación Estadounidense de Sociología, celebrada en el Centro de Convenciones del Estado de Washington el 19 de agosto de 2016. ... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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Steve Kaiser @Wikicommons
ဆက္စပ္အေၾကာင္းအရာ: 
La tiranía de las finanzas globales
Deuda, austeridad y devastación
Las consecuencias políticas del estancamiento
Tags: 
WTO
Occupy Movement
Globalization
Neoliberalism
Global economic crisis
Greek Crisis
Austerity
Quotes: 
Quotes 1

Flawed Global Rules in Agriculture: Need for a New Approach

Topic: 
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)
Agro-ecology
အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Agrarian & Environmental Justice
Article type: 
Multi-media
စာေရးသူ: 
Benny Kuruvilla
Teaser: 

Current global agriculture rules perpetuate market concentration in the North and dumping in the South

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Sophia Murphy, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) speaks with Benny Kuruvilla from the Transnational Institute. In the past 20 years, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) has failed to address basic inequities in world agriculture. Subsidies, dumping of agriculture products by the North and market concentration continue unabated. The current... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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ဆက္စပ္အေၾကာင္းအရာ: 
Reclaiming Agricultural Investment
Eric Holt-Giménez: What's wrong with the industrial food system and the challenges facing food justice movements
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WTO

Revisiting the lessons of the Battle of Seattle and its aftermath

အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Corporate Power
Article type: 
Article
စာေရးသူ: 
Walden Bello
Teaser: 

Walden Bello shares some reflections on the meaning of Seattle for change in knowledge systems, discusses how despite the deep crisis of neoliberalism, finance capital has managed to retain tremendous power, and appeals for a new comprehensive vision of the desirable society.

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Speech delivered at the opening plenary session of the 111th Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington State Convention Center, August 19, 2016... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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WTO Protests in Seattle 1999 Thumbnail

Image Source: 
Steve Kaiser @Wikicommons
Tags: 
WTO
Occupy Movement
Globalization
Neoliberalism
Global economic crisis
Greek Crisis
Austerity
Quotes: 
Quotes 1

TTIP: corporate power grab

Topic: 
Investment protection
TTIP
Corporate Impunity
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)
အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Trade & Investment
Corporate Power
Article type: 
Multi-media
စာေရးသူ: 
John Hilary
In collaboration with: 
Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B)
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ISDS is a mechanism engraved in (bilateral) investment treaties or an investment chapter of trade agreements which allows multinational corporations to sue governments in ad hoc tribunals. It is an extrajudicial system with special privileges and rights just for one class: Foreign investors, giving them more power relatively to citizens and governments.

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The ISDS files
ဆက္စပ္အေၾကာင္းအရာ: 
Profiting from injustice
A transatlantic corporate bill of rights
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WTO

US-India “deal” undermines food security and is victory for TNCs

Topic: 
Trade
Trade
အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Trade & Investment
Corporate Power
Article type: 
Press release
Teaser: 

Netherlands/Jakarta, 14 November 2014 - The announcement on November 13th of a US-India agreement on trade facilitation and India’s food security programme was denounced today by Transnational Institute and Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI), the Indonesian Peasant Union Federation as a “victory for transnational corporations at the expense of peasant farmers.”

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The agreement in the first place only promises to hasten the work towards a permanent solution – this was already an existing promise from the Bali Package. And yet in return, India has agreed to end its blockade of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), which, now unblocked, will move towards ratification and eventual legal adoption into the legal framework of the WTO. ... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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WTO
Transnational Corporations

Susan George in BBC World Business Report

အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Corporate Power
Trade & Investment
Article type: 
In the media
Teaser: 

Political scientist and author on Third World poverty issues, Susan George gives us her thoughts on the prospects for a free trade deal at the WTO in Bali.

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Listen to the radio broadcast here, from min 14:10 - min 18.55. Find out about Susan George's latest publications, including her book 'How to win the Class War', also available now at our online bookstore.    

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BBC
Tags: 
WTO
Transnational Corporations
IMF/World Bank
Food & Agriculture

Akbayan Rep calls on Government to Reject Bad Deal in Bali

အင်္ဂလိပ်ဘာသာ (English)
Programmes: 
Corporate Power
Trade & Investment
Agrarian & Environmental Justice
Article type: 
Press release
Body: 

In a conversation with Secretary today with Department of Trade and Industry Gregory Domingo today, Akbayan Representative Walden Bello warned the government not to agree to what he saw as inequitable agriculture and trade deals brewing at the on-going World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Bali, Indonesia.... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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WTO
Environmental Justice

Susan George au Devoir - Récompenser les coupables, punir les victimes

Topic: 
Debt
ပြင်သစ်
Programmes: 
Alternative Regionalisms
Trade & Investment
Subtitle: 
Les gouvernements «effacent tout ce qui pourrait permettre une politique d'expansion et de redistribution de la richesse»
Article type: 
Article
စာေရးသူ: 
Susan George
Teaser: 

On est dans un système d'injustice parfaite: on récompense ceux qui ont créé la crise et on punit ses innocentes victimes.

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Rien n'a changé. Les banquiers ont retrouvé leur belle assurance et leurs primes, les hedge funds ne spéculent plus sur la bulle immobilière, mais sur le prix des denrées alimentaires, et les gouvernements font la guerre contre les déficits armés des mêmes théories qui ont provoqué la Grande Récession. Susan George dresse ce constat sans rage ni découragement dans la voix, seulement comme... ဆက်လက်ဖတ်ရှုပါ

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Le Devoir
Tags: 
WTO
Global economic crisis
Finance
IMF/World Bank
European Union
EU Crisis

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