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African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

G7 loses grip on global policy to O5. Barry Herman. Asia Times. 5/09/2008

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India. Rama Lakshimi. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with Jesús León Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

The Solidarity Center. The Solidarity Center is a non-profit organization that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions. We work with unions and community groups worldwide to achieve equitable, sustainable, democratic development and to help men and women everywhere stand up for their rights and improve their living and working standards.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Executive Summary of the Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD)
. PDF. Report on traditional vs industrial agriculture, original report site

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

Three Amigos Summit. Manuel Perez Rocha & Sarah Anderson. Foreign Policy in Focus. 4/15/2008

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

Made in China. Finlo Rohrer. BBC. 4/14/2008.

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

IMF plans gold sale to raise $6bn. BBC. 4/07/2008.

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Food prices stir poverty concern. Al Jazeera. 4/11/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes. James McKinnely. NY Times. 2/01/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

True scale of C0₂emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

World Military Spending

Poverty Facts and Stats.

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can’t Fill. David Strietfeld. NY Times. 3/09/2008.

Local-only currency in Portland? Think plastic. Joseph Rose. Oregonian. 2/24/2008.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

The World Is Flat. 13 minute video - Critique of Freidman.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Haynes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

Europe Exports Death With Ease. David Cronin. IPS. 2/08/2008.

Central Africa: War without borders. Economist.com. 2/06/2008.

Obesity Becoming World Crisis. Craig and Marc Kielburger. Toronto Star. 2/04/2008.

ECONOMY-EL SALVADOR: Dollarisation Backfires, Fuelling Price Hikes. Raúl Gutiérrez. International Press Service. 2/05/2008.

EL SALVADOR: Benefits of Free Trade Deal Still Remote. Raúl Gutiérrez. International Press Service. 1/31/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

Food prices: Cheap No More. Gerrit Buntrock. The Economist. Dec. 12, 2007

Human Development Reports main site - multiple reports and country reports.

Carbon Footprint features from the UN Human Development Reports.

Chiquita Sued In NY Over Killings In Colombia. Reuters. 11/15/07.

After teen suicides, an Argentine tribe outlaws 'white' vices. Sara Miller Llana, 11/02/2007, Christian Science Monitor.

World Economy and Development. European perspectives on globalisation.

The Pressure to Modernise and Globalise. Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Disaster Capitalism: the new economy of catastrophe. Naomi Klein. Harper's. 10/2007.

'Health disaster' in French Caribbean linked to pesticides. 9/19/07 John Lichfield, Independent.

The languages of extinction: The world's endangered tongues. Claire Soares, Independent, 9/19/07.

Greensumption video by International Forum on Gloabalization. 8/30/07.

Jeans blues in Mexico. Franc Contreraa. Al Jazeera, 8/24/07.

Globalisation and the rise of inequality. James Fryer. Economist. 1/18/07.

How richest fuel global warming - but poorest suffer most from it. Phillip Thornton. Independent. 1/09/07.

The flower farms where immigrants prove their value to the economy. Terry Judd. Independent.

WEST AFRICA: From Desertification, to Migration, to Conflict. Frank Zamble. IPS. 1/24/07

Migrants 'shape globalised world'. David Loyn. BBC.

Slavery in the UK. Independent. 12/27/06

East-West Migration in the Context of an Enlarging European Union: New Opportunities and New Challenges. Mariyana Radeva.

Illegal Immigration Policy: The Current Evolution of Thought and Practice

. Don Harman. Christian Science Monitor. 6/26/07.

Trafficking in Women Forced Labor and Domestic Work. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.Anti-slavery International Working Paper 2006.

Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036. Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC).

CLOSE TO SLAVERY Guestworker Programs in the United States. SPLC. 2007.

U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020

Human tide: the real migration crisis. Christina Aid Society. May 2007.

Planet of the slums: UN warns urban populations set to double

UNFPA - state of world population 2006

In a World on the Move, a Tiny Land Strains to Cope. Jason DeParle. NY Times. 6/24/07.

No Oil Yet, but Tiny African Isle Finds Slippery Dealings. 7/02/07 Barry Meier & Jad Mouawad. NY Times.

Rich World's Consumerism May Cause African Famines, Experts Warn. Anita Purcell-Sjoelund. AFP, 7/01/07.

Kenyan Farmers' Fate Caught Up in U.S. Aid Rules. Celia Dugger. NY Times. 7/31/07

Climate change escalates Darfur crisis. Baldauf. CSM. 7/27/07.

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Maternal Deaths, The Neglected Tragedy

Chocolate now fuels war in West Africa?. Blake Lambert. Christian Science Monitor. 7/17/07

Climate Divide. Revkin & Kanter. NY Times, 4/07/07 (Flash slide show). Accompanying interactive graphic

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07. or here

The flower farms where immigrants prove their value to the economy. Terri Judd. Independent. 1/06/07.

Real cost of India's cheap stone. Tom Heap. BBC. 1/06/07.

Niger Delta and Natural Resources

Broken Promises: Spoils of Globalization go to Corporations, Countries, not Working Poor. Pfaff. Intl. Herald Tribune. 11/17/06

Social Watch Report 2006: Impossible Architecture PDF report. Related article World Bank Profits from Poor Countries

9/03/06 Cohen, Toronto Star, Maude Barlow Primes the Clean-Water Pump

Pay To Be Saved: The Future of Disaster Response. Naomi Klein, CommonDreams, 8/28/06

Monsanto Moves To Control Water Resources & Fish Farming

CRG -- The Basmati Battle And its Implications for Biopiracy and Trips

World Bank

ParEcon.org

Mobilization For Global Justice

ReliefWeb

Z Magazine

Essential Information

United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks | OCHA IRIN

UNDP | United Nations Development Programme

Third World Traveler An alternative view to the mainstream media, Human rights; Social and economic justice; Foreign policy; Corporations; Media control, Travel in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Welcome to the Globalization Studies Network!

Foreign Policy In Focus - Globalization In Focus

ICAAP Globalization: Index

The Globalization Website

Timeline: World Trade Organisation

Social and Economic Policy

Global Policy Forum

SEEN Reports on Globalization

WTO disputes - process and cases

U.S. Copyright Office, URAA GATT

GATT-guide

Bretton Woods Institutions

NAFTA: The Mother Of All Stupid ideas. Edward Britton

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch

Stop the FTAA

FTAA Official Site

World Trade Organization

OECD Online - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The World Bank Group

IMF and World Bank Contributed to AIDS Spread

IMF Historical Archives - Factsheet

Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)

The Real Battle Lines

The Multinational Monitor

Public Citizen

IMF, International Monetary Fund

International Forum on Globalization

Global Exchange

Multilaterial Agreement on Investment

Corporate Watch

Trade Liberalisation & Women -Unifem

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Public Citizen

OXY Home Page Occidental Oil homepage

U'wa Defense

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Happy Planet Index

Globalization

"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe". Interview with Jesús León Santos, Winner of Goldman Prize. Inter Press Service. 4/24/2008.

'Health disaster' in French Caribbean linked to pesticides. 9/19/07 John Lichfield, Independent.

A Desperate Search For Stolen Children. Maureen Fan. Washington Post. A11. 3/10/2008. Lax Protections Leave Chinese Vulnerable To Human Trafficking

A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can’t Fill. David Strietfeld. NY Times. 3/09/2008.

African Women Making Change. Ann Jones. Mother Jones. 5/13/2008.

After teen suicides, an Argentine tribe outlaws 'white' vices. Sara Miller Llana, 11/02/2007, Christian Science Monitor.

Argentina Tries to Reconcile Exporting Food With Prices at Home. Monte Reel. Wa. Post. 4/26/2008.

As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record. Erik Eckholm. NY Times. 3/31/2008,

As income gap widens, recession fears grow. Tami Luhby. CNN. 4/09/2008

Asian rice crisis starts to bite. Hannah Belcher. Al Jazeera. 3/29/2008.

BRAZIL: Growing Foreign Appetite for Land. Mario Osava. International Press Service. 3/24/2008.

Backlash grows against free trade. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/16/07. or here

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Bangladesh children toil to survive. Al Jazeera. 4/14/2008.

Best U.S. factory jobs in rising jeopardy. Mark Trumbull. Christian Science Monitor. 2/15/2008.

Biofuels starving our people, leaders tell UN. Allegra Stratton. Guardian/UK. 4/28/2008.

Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards. Sasha Abramsky. In These Times. 3/28/2008.

Bolivia nationalises key firms. Al Jazeera. 5/01/2008.

Bretton Woods Institutions

Broken Promises: Spoils of Globalization go to Corporations, Countries, not Working Poor. Pfaff. Intl. Herald Tribune. 11/17/06

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security. Antoaneta Bezlova. Inter Press Service. 5/09/2008.

CLOSE TO SLAVERY Guestworker Programs in the United States. SPLC. 2007.

Carbon Footprint features from the UN Human Development Reports.

Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)

Central Africa: War without borders. Economist.com. 2/06/2008.

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Cereal prices hit poor countries. BBC. 2/14/2008.

Chevron Complicit in Abuses in Burma - Rights Lobby. Marwaan Macan-Markar. Inter Press Services. 4/20/2008.

Child Labor Rings Reach China's Distant Villages. David Barboza. NY Times. 5/10/2008.

Chiquita Sued In NY Over Killings In Colombia. Reuters. 11/15/07.

Chocolate now fuels war in West Africa?. Blake Lambert. Christian Science Monitor. 7/17/07

Climate Divide. Revkin & Kanter. NY Times, 4/07/07 (Flash slide show). Accompanying interactive graphic

Climate change escalates Darfur crisis. Baldauf. CSM. 7/27/07.

Corporate Watch

Credit crunch costs '$1 trillion'. Stevern Schifferes. BBC. 4/09/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

Cultural Imperialism at the W.H.O.?. John Tierney. NY Times. 1/28/2008.

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Maternal Deaths, The Neglected Tragedy

DEVELOPMENT: A Winding Journey From Seed to Plate. Matt Homer. International Press Service.

DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Linked to Doha Deal. Aileen Kwa. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

DEVELOPMENT: Reinventing Agriculture. Stephen Leahy. IPS. 4/15/2008.

Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla. Susan Douglas. In These Times. 3/25/08.

Disaster Capitalism: the new economy of catastrophe. Naomi Klein. Harper's. 10/2007.

ECONOMY-EL SALVADOR: Dollarisation Backfires, Fuelling Price Hikes. Raúl Gutiérrez. International Press Service. 2/05/2008.

EL SALVADOR: Benefits of Free Trade Deal Still Remote. Raúl Gutiérrez. International Press Service. 1/31/2008.

ENERGY-AFRICA: From Kerosene to the LED, O-HUB and O-BOX. Stephen Leahy. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels. Mario Osava. Inter Press Service. 5/08/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

EU loses banana battle at WTO. Al Jazeera. 2/08/2008.

East-West Migration in the Context of an Enlarging European Union: New Opportunities and New Challenges. Mariyana Radeva.

Emptying the Breadbasket. Dan Morgan. Wa. Post. 4/29/2008.

Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World. Elizabeth Rosenthal. NY Times. 4/26/2008.

Essential Information

Europe Exports Death With Ease. David Cronin. IPS. 2/08/2008.

Ex-slave works to free others from West African tradition. Nora Boustany. Christina Science Monitor. 3/26/2008.

Executive Summary of the Synthesis Report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD)
. PDF. Report on traditional vs industrial agriculture, original report site

Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 4/20/2008.

FTAA Official Site

Food Crisis Will Take Hold Before Climate Change, Warns Chief Scientist. James Randerson. Guardian. 3/07/2008.

Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN. David Adam. Independent/UK. 4/09/2008.

Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World. Josh Gerstein. NY Sun. 4/21/2008.

Food price rises are "mass murder": U.N. envoy. Reuters. 4/20/2008.

Food prices rising across the world. CNN. 3/25/2008.

Food prices stir poverty concern. Al Jazeera. 4/11/2008.

Food prices: Cheap No More. Gerrit Buntrock. The Economist. Dec. 12, 2007

G7 loses grip on global policy to O5. Barry Herman. Asia Times. 5/09/2008

GATT-guide

GLOBALISATION: New Curbs on Investment From the South. Julio Godoy. International Press Service. 4/14/2008.

Global Exchange

Global Policy Forum

Global press freedom declines in 2007: study. The Age / AU. 4/30/08.

Globalisation and the rise of inequality. James Fryer. Economist. 1/18/07.

Foreign Policy In Focus - Globalization In Focus

Welcome to the Globalization Studies Network!

Globalization, trade and recession take a toll on Martinsville, Virginia. Tony Pugh. McClatchy. 4/10/2008.

Grain prices soar globally. Daniel Ten Kate. Christian Science Monitor. 3/25/2008.

Greensumption video by International Forum on Gloabalization. 8/30/07.

High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest. Keith Bradsher. NY Times. 3/29/2008.

Hopes fade for Tanzanian miners. Al Jazeera. 3/30/2008.

. Don Harman. Christian Science Monitor. 6/26/07.

How richest fuel global warming - but poorest suffer most from it. Phillip Thornton. Independent. 1/09/07.

Human Development Reports main site - multiple reports and country reports.

Human tide: the real migration crisis. Christina Aid Society. May 2007.

ICAAP Globalization: Index

IMF Historical Archives - Factsheet

IMF and World Bank Contributed to AIDS Spread

IMF plans gold sale to raise $6bn. BBC. 4/07/2008.

IMF, International Monetary Fund

United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks | OCHA IRIN

Illegal Immigration Policy: The Current Evolution of Thought and Practice

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There. Jim Hightower. The Hightower Lowdown. 2/07/2008.

Social Watch Report 2006: Impossible Architecture PDF report. Related article World Bank Profits from Poor Countries

In a World on the Move, a Tiny Land Strains to Cope. Jason DeParle. NY Times. 6/24/07.

India rules out new farm debt aid. BBC. 4/22/2008.

International Forum on Globalization

Jeans blues in Mexico. Franc Contreraa. Al Jazeera, 8/24/07.

Kenyan Farmers' Fate Caught Up in U.S. Aid Rules. Celia Dugger. NY Times. 7/31/07

Load Up the Pantry. Brett Arends. Wall Street Journal. 4/21/2008.

Local-only currency in Portland? Think plastic. Joseph Rose. Oregonian. 2/24/2008.

Made in China. Finlo Rohrer. BBC. 4/14/2008.

Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Many Many Hispanics Are Hit Hard by Economic Slump. Peter Goodman. NY Times. 5/13/2008.

9/03/06 Cohen, Toronto Star, Maude Barlow Primes the Clean-Water Pump

Mexican Farmers Protest End of Corn-Import Taxes. James McKinnely. NY Times. 2/01/2008.

Mexico plans water supply boost. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico. Elizabeth Malkin. NY Times. 4/05/2008.

Migrants 'shape globalised world'. David Loyn. BBC.

Mining forces out thousands in SA. BBC. 3/25/2008.

Mobilization For Global Justice

Monsanto Moves To Control Water Resources & Fish Farming

Multilaterial Agreement on Investment

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis. Geoffrey Lean. Independent/UK. 5/04/2008.

NAFTA: The Mother Of All Stupid ideas. Edward Britton

Niger Delta and Natural Resources

No Oil Yet, but Tiny African Isle Finds Slippery Dealings. 7/02/07 Barry Meier & Jad Mouawad. NY Times.

No let up in India farm suicides. Prachi Pinglay. BBC. 5/05/2008.

OECD Online - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OXY Home Page Occidental Oil homepage

Obesity Becoming World Crisis. Craig and Marc Kielburger. Toronto Star. 2/04/2008.

Oil Majors Rapped Over Secrecy, Corruption. Abid Aslam. International Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

ParEcon.org

Pay To Be Saved: The Future of Disaster Response. Naomi Klein, CommonDreams, 8/28/06

Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution. Peter Collyns, BBC. 3/24/2008.

Peru roads blocked in trade protest. Al Jazeera. 2/18/2008.

Planet of the slums: UN warns urban populations set to double

Poverty Facts and Stats.

Public Citizen

Public Citizen

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch

Punjab reaps a poisoned harvest. David Loyn. BBC. 4/26/2008.

Q&A: EU and U.S. Offering Special WTO Deal to Lure South Africa. International Press Service. 3/25/2008.

RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Pantanal Indians Threatened by Deforestation. Mario Osava. IPS. 2/09/2008.

RIGHTS: Native People Warn U.N. of Biofuels Disaster. Haider Rizvi. Inter Press Service. 4/30/2008.

Real cost of India's cheap stone. Tom Heap. BBC. 1/06/07.

ReliefWeb

Rich World's Consumerism May Cause African Famines, Experts Warn. Anita Purcell-Sjoelund. AFP, 7/01/07.

Rich clients' assets to hit $75 trillion by 2012: study. Reuters. 3/27/2008.

SEEN Reports on Globalization

Scorned trash pickers become global environmental force. Jack Chang. McClatchy. 3/24/2008.

Slavery in the UK. Independent. 12/27/06

Social and Economic Policy

Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China. Ariana Eunjung Cha. Washington Post. 3/09/2008.

South Korean workers on edge of burnout. Bruce Williams. LA Times. 4/19/2008.

Stop the FTAA

Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036. Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC).

Transparency International calls on leading oil and gas companies to increase revenue transparency. Transparency International Anti-Corruption Reports. 2008.

Tension About Religion and Class in Turkey. Sabrina Tavernise. NY Times. 2/19/2008.

CRG -- The Basmati Battle And its Implications for Biopiracy and Trips

The Degradation of Work: The True Cost of Shrimp. (Original link) Solidarity Center. January 2008.

The Degradation of Work: Trafficking in Persons from a Labor Perspective - The Kenya Experience. (Original report). Solidarity Center. October 2007.

The Dire Side of Rising Food Prices. Michael Nizza. NY Times. 1/30/2008.

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude Barlow. Foreign Policy in Focus. 2/25/2008.

The Globalization Website

The Great Shopping Spree, R.I.P.. Robert J. Samuelson. Newsweek. 4/28/2008.

The Green Machine: Monsanto Co's Transgenic Products Tightens Their Control of Seed Market. Jennifer Kahn. Resugence Magazine. 1999.

The Happy Planet Index

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck. Nancy Cleeland. The Nation. 2/20/2008.

The Military-Petroleum Complex. Nick Turse. Foreign Policy In Focus. 3/24/2008.

The Multinational Monitor

The Pressure to Modernise and Globalise. Helena Norberg-Hodge.

The Real Battle Lines

The Solidarity Center. The Solidarity Center is a non-profit organization that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions. We work with unions and community groups worldwide to achieve equitable, sustainable, democratic development and to help men and women everywhere stand up for their rights and improve their living and working standards.

The Story of Stuff. Annie Leonard. Environmental video.

The World Bank Group

The World Bank's Carbon Deals. Janet Redman. Foreign Policy In Focus. 4/10/2008.

The World Is Flat. 13 minute video - Critique of Freidman.

The flower farms where immigrants prove their value to the economy. Terry Judd. Independent.

The flower farms where immigrants prove their value to the economy. Terri Judd. Independent. 1/06/07.

The languages of extinction: The world's endangered tongues. Claire Soares, Independent, 9/19/07.

Third World Traveler An alternative view to the mainstream media, Human rights; Social and economic justice; Foreign policy; Corporations; Media control, Travel in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Three Amigos Summit. Manuel Perez Rocha & Sarah Anderson. Foreign Policy in Focus. 4/15/2008

Timeline: World Trade Organisation

Toxic shock: how the banking industry created a global crisis. Jill Treanor. Guardian/UK. 4/08/2008.

Trade Liberalisation & Women -Unifem

Trafficking in Women Forced Labor and Domestic Work. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.Anti-slavery International Working Paper 2006.

Transparency International researches and monitors global corruption of governments and corporations.

True scale of C0₂emissions from shipping revealed. John Vidal. Guardian/UK. 2/13/2008.

U'wa Defense

U.S. Copyright Office, URAA GATT

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India. Rama Lakshimi. Wa. Post. 5/11/2008.

U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020

UN food agency issues emergency plea for $500m. Owen Bowcott. Guardian/UK. 3/25/2009

UN forum aims to end trafficking. BBC. 2/13/08.

UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis. Environmental News Service. 4/29/2008.

UNFPA - state of world population 2006

US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid. Ida Wahlstrom. One World. 5/09/2008.

US service sector in sharp fall. BBC. 2/05/2008.

Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia. Simon Romero. NY Times. 4/14/2008.

Union of Concerned Scientists

UNDP | United Nations Development Programme

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Hanes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

Urbanization threatens Namibia's traditional Himba culture. Stephanie Haynes. Christian Science Monitor. 2/05/2008.

WEST AFRICA: From Desertification, to Migration, to Conflict. Frank Zamble. IPS. 1/24/07

WTO disputes - process and cases

Warming 'affecting poor children'. BBC. 4/29/2008.

Wed to Strangers, Vietnamese Wives Build Korean Lives. Norimitsu Onishi. NY Times. 3/30/2008.

What Created This Monster?. Nelson Schwartz & Julie Creswell. NT Times. 3/23/08. The role of deregulation of the financial industry and the use of derivatives to "spread risk."

Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice. Anthony Faiola. Wa. Post. 4/28/2008.

World Bank

World Economy and Development. European perspectives on globalisation.

World Military Spending

World Trade Organization

World's Giants to Alter Food Equation. Evan Osnos & Laurie Goering. Chicago Tribune. 5/11/2008.

Z Magazine

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