Global Organizations

The Battle Beyond Seattle The Battle Beyond Seattle

A little broken glass in the streets of Seattle has transformed the World Trade Organization into a popular icon for the unregulated globalization that tramples human values on e...

Dec 9, 1999 / William Greider

Trade Wars, Trade Truths Trade Wars, Trade Truths

Here's a might-have-been for you.

Dec 2, 1999 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Street Fight in Seattle Street Fight in Seattle

After the Battle in Seattle one thing is certain: The next WTO confab will be held somewhere like Singapore or Jakarta.

Dec 2, 1999 / Marc Cooper

Whose Trade? Whose Trade?

PARTICIPANTS IN THE FORUM Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-b

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Various Contributors

The People vs. the WTO The People vs. the WTO

The thousands of demonstrators who will greet the World Trade Organization delegates in Seattle on November 30 will have many voices but one message: The attempt to write a const...

Nov 18, 1999 / The Editors

The Battle in Seattle The Battle in Seattle

It's billed as the Battle in Seattle.

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Robert L. Borosage

Raising a Ruckus Raising a Ruckus

Somewhere amid the dancing sea turtles and bustling WTO bureaucrats, the angry anarchists and the Al Gore entourage, the striking steelworkers and the billionaires in town to sip...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / John Nichols

States’ Rights and the WTO States’ Rights and the WTO

The World Trade Organization imposes obligations on state and local governments that limit their ability to protect consumers, establish environmental standards and undertake eco...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich

Debt: Just Forget It Debt: Just Forget It

For two decades the International Monetary Fund and its major client, the US Treasury, have made privatization, austere social budgets and market deregulation conditions of loans...

Nov 4, 1999 / Jeff Faux

Ending Timor’s Ordeal Ending Timor’s Ordeal

Indonesia's scorched-earth compliance with international pressure on East Timor has left Dili, the capital, in ruins, displaced some 100,000 people to refugee camps under the con...

Sep 16, 1999 / The Editors

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