Economics

The Fight for the Americas The Fight for the Americas

In Canada, Maude Barlow gave a stirring speech criticizing the free-trade agenda of the Summit of the Americas.

May 8, 2001 / Maude Barlow

No FTAA, No Fast Track No FTAA, No Fast Track

With NAFTA as an ugly precedent, the proposed trade pact is generating serious opposition from a number of social and economic sources.

Apr 26, 2001 / The Editors

AIDS: The New Apartheid AIDS: The New Apartheid

A campaign to help sick people in need of unaffordable medicines is clashing with forces in the global pharmaceutical industry.

Apr 26, 2001 / Mark Gevisser

Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan

He's an archconservative who thinks big and knows how to get things done.

Apr 26, 2001 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Corporate Welfare Spoils Corporate Welfare Spoils

In one of the most foolish and cruelly ironic urban public policy decisions in recent memory, New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are planning...

Apr 19, 2001 / Ralph Nader

Sovereign Corporations Sovereign Corporations

When NAFTA was adopted in 1993, Chapter 11 in the trade and investment agreement was too obscure to stir controversy. Eight years later, it's the smoking gun in the intensifying a...

Apr 12, 2001 / William Greider

Forked-Tongue Budget Forked-Tongue Budget

Resident Bush's budget brandishes the camouflaged conservatism that is the hallmark of this disingenuous Administration. It advertises a 4 percent increase in discretionary spendi...

Apr 12, 2001 / Robert L. Borosage

A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era A Fairness Agenda for the Bush Era

In the clash over tax cuts and social programs, much of what progressives need to do is defensive. But it would be a mistake not to float new ideas, too.

Apr 5, 2001 / Feature /

A Time To Be Bold A Time To Be Bold

In recent months, as a newly elected senator, I have had to decide whether to join the Democratic Leadership Council. I have chosen not to because while I shared its founding purp...

Mar 30, 2001 / Gov. Jon Corzine

Zapatistas on the March Zapatistas on the March

Many compared it to marching through a dream. After seven years under siege by 70,000 Mexican Army troops in the jungles and highlands of Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberat...

Mar 22, 2001 / Al Giordano

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