GLOBALIZATION BULLETIN

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Contents, Vol. 2, No. 4

Trade Agreements

Food Aid Fight Darkens Meeting Mood as WTO Talks Open http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051213/wl_nm/trade_wto_dc

200 Korean Farmers Swim to Sink WTO http://www.viacampesina.org/hongkong/

HK Rallies Denounce WTO http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec122005/foreign1783420051211.asp

La Via Campesina Discusses Damage Done by WTO http://viacampesina.org/hongkong/content/view/84/69/

The Price of Market Access by Laura Carlsen http://americas.irc-online.org/aptp/2911

End to Subsidies Would Not End Rural Poverty http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/trade/subsidies/2005/1202rural.htm

The WTO 6th Ministerial: People Power v. Corporate Power http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wto/2005/11people.htm

Nothing to Gain, Everything to Lose: Developing Country Prospects at the Hong Kong Ministerial by Walden Bello http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wto/2005/1105gain.htm

Mercorsur: Overly Ambitious? by Diana Caraboni http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31372

WTO-Special: Free Trade or Fair Trade? by Jason Nardi http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31371

Will Agriculture Reform Work for the Poor? http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31350

Japan's Rice Farmers a Dying Breed http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31319

POOR COUNTRIES DEMAND ACTION by Stefania Bianchi http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31347

WTO Creating a Climate of Fear in Hong Kong by Jane Kelsey http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00129.htm

Trade Liberalisation is Not Development http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-12/10shiva.cfm

Corporate Globalization in Crisis by Deborah James http://www.alternet.org/story/29326/

The Free Market Versus Regional Integration by Raul Zibechi http://americas.irc-online.org/am/2976

New Talks, Same Empty Promises by Emad Mekay http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31339

Does Foreign Equal Better http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31286

Disillusion in Southern Africa Ahead of Trade Talks http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31270

Fairer Trade Deal Urged for Africa http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CED0DCAE-8A03-4DC2-B07E-E5C88806DDE9.htm

Food Aid Cannot be the Object of WTO Haggling by Jean Ziegler http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/120705H.shtml

Doha Round: Weighed in the Balance http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5297986&fsrc=nwl

Doha Round Will Not Aid Development http://50years.org/cms/updates/story/314

Trade Unionists Working Within WTO http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201471.html

Labor and Human Rights

Cocoa's Bitter Taste http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/ivory/2005/1204cocoa.htm

The War for Chocolate

http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/12/war-for-chocolate.htm

Levi's Targeted by Lajat Workers, Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

http://www.coalitionforjustice.net/id96.html

Fair Labor Association Third Party Complaint Studies

http://www.fairlabor.org/2005report/thirdparty/index.html

Tire Giant Firestone Hit with Lawsuit over Slave-Like Conditions at Rubber Plantation

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/123600/1/

Show of Support for Irish Ferry Workers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4516538.stm

NYU Bans Coca-Cola For Its Human Rights Abuses in Colombia

http://www.killercoke.org/nyu1208.htm

WHO Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women

http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/en/index.html

World's First Starbucks Strike Spreads to 10 Stores

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0511/S00182.htm

Outsourcing

US banking giant JPMorgan Chase in big offshoring move to India

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10004146.shtml

Intel May Build Chip Plant in India

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10004154.shtml

Microsoft India to Hire 3000 Engineers

http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10004177.shtml

Global Governance

UN Global Equality Starts at the Top

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31366

U.S. CUTS WORLD BANK FUNDING

http://econjustice.net/wbbb/press/November%202005/Press%20Release%20Congress%20Cuts%20WB%20Funding_November%2005.pdf

The Development Agenda after the 2005 Millennium+5 Summit (November 2005)

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/un/reform/2005/05summitgpf.pdf

Global Environment

In Shift, U.S. Agrees to Future Climate Talks

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31373

Where We Stand: Honesty About Climate Change and About Preventing It

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2973

How America Plotted To Stop Kyoto Deal by Andrew Buncombe

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=672035

Kyoto Confirmed As Only Game in Town

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/051211/1/3x6en.html

Critical Atlantic Currents Weakened by Global Warming

http://newstandardnews.net/content/ion/index.cfm/days/2005-12-06#792

World Bank "New Investment Framework"
A Great Leap Backwards for Sustainable Energy

http://www.irn.org/programs/greenhouse/index.php?id=051205leap.html

Changing Science (on Global Warming)

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5277673&fsrc=nwl

The Global Economy

New Optimism Over Japanese Economy After a Bleak Decade http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/07/business/07recover.html?hp

Progress on Global Taxes? http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/glotax/general/2005/12progress.htm

Gold Hits 25 Year High http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9072-1917101,00.html

Corporate Social Responsibility

A Big Deal? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Finance Sector in Europe

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2004/0904bigdeal.pdf

The Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2005/1104myth.htm

Immigration

U.S. Immigration Policy on the Table at WTO by Sarah Anderson

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/2962

Reframing the Immigration Debate: The Actors and the Issues

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/2959

FBI Database Often Wrong on Immigrants' Status, Study Says

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2664

Immigrant Traffic Increases Along Caribbean Sea Highway

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mona9dec09,0,6059531.story?coll=la-home-nation

GOP Lawmakers Target Birthright Citizenship for Immigrants

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/12/08/gop_lawmakers_target_birthright_citizenship_for_immigrants/

Balkans: In Europe and So Far From It

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=31324

Bush's Immigration Ideas Worry Mexicans Looking for a Future

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2657

Border Activists Draw Line at Suburbs

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-daylabor28nov28,1,1603101.story

Policies on Illegal Immigrants At Odds

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-contradict27nov27,1,4965977.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Walmart

CPP Funds Wal-Mart http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/12/war-for-chocolate.html

Campaign for Labor Rights' Wal-Mart Campaign http://www.campaignforlaborrights.org/campaigns/wal-mart/wal-mart.htm

China

Protesters in China Said to be Killed http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china10dec10,1,7147169.story?coll=la-headlines-world

China Official Held Over Shooting http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4517706.stm

China Economy Larger Than Previously Stated http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1ed16fae-6b96-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.html

U.S. Losing Clout in Southeast Asia to China by Tim Shorrock http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31353

China Overtakes US as Supplier of IT Goods http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/12/content_3909170.htm

China orders 150 A320 single aisle aircraft from Airbus http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10004155.shtml

Harbin Disaster Harbinger of Water Woes http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31309

China buys into Japan: INVESTMENT PROVOKES RESENTMENT (Odaira Namihei - Le Monde diplomatique) http://www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2005/11/10/china_buys_into_japan_investment_provokes_resentment/

More Disasters, More Meetings, More Crackdowns (China Labor Bulletin)

http://www.activistnetwork.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=407

Trouble in Chinatown

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5298039&fsrc=nwl

The Struggle Continues: Fighting Back after Tiannamen by Hon Dongfang (Dec. 2005)

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/

Developing Countries

Coca farmer turned saviour of the left promises wind of change in Bolivia http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1661925,00.html?gusrc=rss