Brakes on Fast Track Brakes on Fast Track
An odd thing has happened in the obscure but spirited fight activists are waging against NAFTA's notorious Chapter 11 and the exclusive legal privileges it gives to multinational ...
May 9, 2002 / William Greider
Monterrey and the World Monterrey and the World
How are we to read the International Conference on Financing for Development, which recently concluded in Monterrey, Mexico? Just another United Nations talkathon?
Apr 4, 2002 / Feature / Patrick Smith
Free Trade Bush’s Way Free Trade Bush’s Way
On the eve of George W. Bush's recent tour of Latin America, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes equated the advantages of a global free market with the peaks of the Himalayas, characte...
Mar 28, 2002 / Marc Cooper
Stealth Vouchers Stealth Vouchers
While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget propos...
Mar 22, 2002 / Feature / Bill Berkowitz
Il Maestro’s Failed Magic Il Maestro’s Failed Magic
An awakened sense of outrage has reporters and members of Congress playing a fierce game of hounds and hares with Enron executives and other bandits, which is most fortunate for ...
Mar 7, 2002 / William Greider
From Protest To Politics From Protest To Politics
A report from Porto Alegre on the "antiglobalization" movement.
Feb 21, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Enron’s Global Crusade Enron’s Global Crusade
The Texas company has been a scandal in other countries for a long time.
Feb 14, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Listening In on the WEF Listening In on the WEF
As January turned into February, the most important people in the world gathered themselves together in midtown Manhattan for the annual World Economic Forum. Normally held in Da...
Feb 14, 2002 / Doug Henwood
Many Oppose Trade Deal Many Oppose Trade Deal
Pôrto Alegre, Brazil--In US living rooms, talk about such policy measures as the White House's proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is likely to elicit clueless ...
Feb 11, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper
A Recovered Movement A Recovered Movement
On Saturday, February 2, approximately 12,000 demonstrators gathered in New York City to protest the meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Feb 4, 2002 / Feature / Liza Featherstone