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Agenda

• Tony Clarke:
  * Unmasking the Political Agenda of Transnational Corporations
  in APEC and the Processes of Globalization

APEC

• Aziz Choudry:
  * APEC and Free Trade

Beef

• Edmund L. Andrews (New York Times, May 9, 1997):
  * WTO Overrules Europe's Ban on U.S. Hormone-Treated Beef

Boat

• George Sranko:
  * All in the same Boat

Business

• Boston Cambridge Alliance for Democracy:
  * Will International Business Over-ride Laws Passed by our Elected Governments?
• David C. Korten:
  * The Responsibility of Business to the Whole

Canada

• Maude Barlow:
  * Globalization and the Dismantling of Canadian Democracy, Values and Society
• Ontario Coalition for Social Justice and
  Ontario Federation of Labour (February, 1997):
  * Book Excerpt from Unfair $hares: Corporations and Taxation in Canada"

Cancer

• John McMurtry:
  * The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:
  Our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer

Capitalism

• John McMurtry:
  * The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:
  Our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer

Capitalist

• George Soros:
  * The Capitalist Threat
• Zellig S. Harris:
  * The Transformation of Capitalist Society
  (A book review by Bruce Nevin)

Charter

• George Monbiot (The Guardian, UK, April 15, 1997):
  * A Charter to Let Loose the Multinationals

Climate

• Daphne Wysham:
  * Destroying Orissa, Fueling Climate Change: A Joint Project of the World Bank, Transnational Corporations, and G-7 governments

Common Good

• Noam Chomsky:
  * Chomsky on The Common Good - from a speech on Capitol Hill, Jan 9, 1997

Corporate Handouts

• Noam Chomsky:
  * Interview excerpts: Chomsky on Corporate Handouts
  
• Ralph Nader:
  * Ralph Nader on Corporate Handouts

Corporate Rule

• Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, Ed Finn, Jim Grieshaber-Otto:
  * MAI-Day! The Corporate Rule Treaty
• Jane Kelsey:
  * Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule

Corporation

• Tony Clarke:
  * Unmasking the Political Agenda of Transnational Corporations
  in APEC and the Processes of Globalization
• Paul Cienfuegos, Johanna Parry (newsletter from Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County):
  * A Sovereign People: Rethinking the Corporation, Rethinking Democracy
• Ontario Coalition for Social Justice and
  Ontario Federation of Labour (February, 1997):
  * Book Excerpt from Unfair $hares: Corporations and Taxation in Canada"
• Boyce Richardson:
  * Corporations: How Do We Curb Their Obscene Power?
• Daphne Wysham:
  * Destroying Orissa, Fueling Climate Change: A Joint Project of the World Bank, Transnational Corporations, and G-7 governments

Corporation (Ethyl)

• Michelle Sforza, Mark Vallianatos:
  * Ethyl Corporation v. Government of Canada
• Janice Harvey (Telegraph Journal, New Brunswick, Canada):
  * Ethyl Corporation v. Government of Canada

Democracy

• Maude Barlow:
  * Globalization and the Dismantling of Canadian Democracy, Values and Society
• David C. Korten:
  * The GATT and Democracy
• Paul Cienfuegos, Johanna Parry (newsletter from Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County):
  * A Sovereign People: Rethinking the Corporation, Rethinking Democracy

Democratic Government

• John McMurtry:
  * The Multilateral Agreement on Investment:
  The Plan to Replace Democratically Responsible Government

Deficit

• Rod Dobell:
  * "Dance of the Deficit"

Developing Countries

• Acharya Krtashivananda Avadhuta:
  * Globalisation Of The Economy: A disaster for India and other developing countries

Disease

• David C. Korten:
  * Money As A Social Disease

Economy

• Jane Kelsey:
  * Life in the Economic Test-Tube: New Zealand "experiment" a colossal failure
• Acharya Krtashivananda Avadhuta:
  * Globalisation Of The Economy: A disaster for India and other developing countries
• Ursula Franklin:
  * Building A People-First Economy
• David C. Korten:
  * There's a Dangerous Flaw in the "Global Economy" Concept
• Jim Anderton (MP, New Zealand)
  * Politics: Serving The People Or The Global Economy?
• PCDForum:
  * Localize Economies! Globalize Consciousness!

Environment

• Vandana Shiva:
  * TRIPs and the Environment

Europe

• Edmund L. Andrews (New York Times, May 9, 1997):
  * WTO Overrules Europe's Ban on U.S. Hormone-Treated Beef

Free Market

• John McMurtry:
  * "Free Market" Fallacies:
  What we need is a rule-based international economy

Free Trade

• Aziz Choudry:
  * APEC and Free Trade
• Norman Solomon:
  * The Media's Love Affair with "Free Trade"

G7

• Daphne Wysham:
  * Destroying Orissa, Fueling Climate Change: A Joint Project of the World Bank, Transnational Corporations, and G-7 governments

GATT

• David C. Korten:
  * The GATT and Democracy

Global

• David C. Korten:
  * There's a Dangerous Flaw in the "Global Economy" Concept
• Jim Anderton (MP, New Zealand)
  * Politics: Serving The People Or The Global Economy?
• PCDForum:
  * Localize Economies! Globalize Consciousness!
• Naomi Klein (Toronto Star):
  * Global Failures in Need of Local Solutions

Globalisation

• Maude Barlow:
  * Globalization and the Dismantling of Canadian Democracy, Values and Society
• Acharya Krtashivananda Avadhuta:
  * Globalisation Of The Economy: A disaster for India and other developing countries

Government

• Boston Cambridge Alliance for Democracy:
  * Will International Business Over-ride Laws Passed by our Elected Governments?
• Richard Gwyn (Toronto Star):
  * IMF now de facto government for millions
• Western Governors' Association (US):
  * "Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Potential Effects on State and Local Government"

Hormones

• Edmund L. Andrews (New York Times, May 9, 1997):
  * WTO Overrules Europe's Ban on U.S. Hormone-Treated Beef

IMF

• Richard Gwyn (Toronto Star):
  * IMF now de facto government for millions

Immune System

• John McMurtry:
  * The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:
  Our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer

India

• Acharya Krtashivananda Avadhuta:
  * Globalisation Of The Economy: A disaster for India and other developing countries

Investment

• Aziz Choudry:
  * Investment Treaty Rotten to the Core
• Bhagirath Lal Das:
  * A critical analysis of the proposed investment treaty in WTO

Investors

• Preamble Center for Public Policy:
  * A "Bill of Rights" for International Investors?

Law

• George Monbiot (The Guardian, UK, April 15, 1997):
  * A Charter to Let Loose the Multinationals
• Boston Cambridge Alliance for Democracy:
  * Will International Business Over-ride Laws Passed by our Elected Governments?
• David C. Korten:
  * Rights of Money versus Rights of Living Persons
• Michelle Sforza, Mark Vallianatos:
  * Ethyl Corporation v. Government of Canada
• Janice Harvey (Telegraph Journal, New Brunswick, Canada):
  * Ethyl Corporation v. Government of Canada

Local

• PCDForum:
  * Localize Economies! Globalize Consciousness!
• Western Governors' Association (US):
  * "Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Potential Effects on State and Local Government"

MAI

• Bill Watamaniuk:
  * Summary of the MAI
• Naomi Klein (Toronto Star):
  * Global Failures in Need of Local Solutions
• Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, Ed Finn, Jim Grieshaber-Otto:
  * MAI-Day! The Corporate Rule Treaty
• John McMurtry:
  * The Multilateral Agreement on Investment:
  The Plan to Replace Democratically Responsible Government
• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch:
  * MAI-Testimony: Lori Wallach, March 5, 1998
  
• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch:
  * The Alarming Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Robert Theobald
  * The Multilateral Agreement On Investment: An Alternative Approach
• Ignacio Ramonet (Le Monde Diplomatique, December 1997):
  * Disarming The Markets
• Thomas Hanke (Die Zeit):
  * The MAI in "DIE ZEIT" (article in German)
• Scott Nova, Michelle Sforza:
  * The Mystery MAI Treaty Negotiations
• Bhagirath Lal Das:
  * A critical analysis of the proposed investment treaty in WTO
• Willi Nolan:
  * MAI and Tampons
• Janice Harvey (Telegraph Journal, New Brunswick, Canada):
  * Give Them an Inch and They Take a Mile
  * M.A.I. is M.I.A.
• Gabriel Roth (San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 15, 97):
  * NAFTA on Crack

Market

• John McMurtry:
  * The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:
  Our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer
• Ignacio Ramonet (Le Monde Diplomatique, December 1997):
  * Disarming The Markets

Media

• Norman Solomon:
  * The Media's Love Affair with "Free Trade"

Money

• Prof. M. Chossudovsky:
  * Financial Warfare to Lead to Demise of Central Banking?
• David C. Korten:
  * Rights of Money versus Rights of Living Persons
• David C. Korten:
  * Money As A Social Disease

Mozambique

• Joseph Hanlon (Gemini News Service):
  * World Bank Blunder in Mozambique

Multinationals

• George Monbiot (The Guardian, UK, April 15, 1997):
  * A Charter to Let Loose the Multinationals
• Luigi Brunamonti
  * Multinational Corporations and Civil Society
• Thomas Hanke (Die Zeit):
  * The MAI in "DIE ZEIT" (article in German)

Myth

• David C. Korten:
  * Economic Myths

NAFTA

• Gabriel Roth (San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 15, 97):
  * NAFTA on Crack
• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch:
  * NAFTA-Testimony: Lori Wallach, May 15, 1997 (Impact of NAFTA on the U.S. Economy)

New World Order

• Ed Finn:
  * The New World Order: Self-destruction? Self-restraint?

New Zealand

• Jane Kelsey:
  * Life in the Economic Test-Tube: New Zealand "experiment" a colossal failure

Nike

• John Heinzl (in the Globe and Mail, July 2, 1997)
  * Nike's hockey plans put Bauer on thin ice:
  Closing of Cambridge plant could spell end of skate maker's Canadian presence

OECD

• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch:
  * The Alarming Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Now Being Negotiated at the OECD

People

• Ursula Franklin:
  * Building A People-First Economy
• Jim Anderton (MP, New Zealand)
  * Politics: Serving The People Or The Global Economy?

Persons

• David C. Korten:
  * Rights of Money versus Rights of Living Persons

Power

• Boyce Richardson:
  * Corporations: How Do We Curb Their Obscene Power?

Responsibility

• David C. Korten:
  * The Responsibility of Business to the Whole

Rights

• Preamble Center for Public Policy:
  * A "Bill of Rights" for International Investors?
• David C. Korten:
  * Rights of Money versus Rights of Living Persons

Social / Society

• Maude Barlow:
  * Globalization and the Dismantling of Canadian Democracy, Values and Society
• Luigi Brunamonti
  * Multinational Corporations and Civil Society
• John McMurtry:
  * The Cancer Stage of Capitalism:
  Our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer
• Zellig S. Harris:
  * The Transformation of Capitalist Society (Book review by Bruce Nevin))
• David C. Korten:
  * Money As A Social Disease

State

• Western Governors' Association (US):
  * "Multilateral Agreement on Investment: Potential Effects on State and Local Government"

Stockholders

• Marjorie Kelly (Business Ethics, Jan/Feb 1997):
  * Why All the Fuss About Stockholders?

Tampons

• Willi Nolan:
  * MAI and Tampons

Taxes

• Ontario Coalition for Social Justice and
  Ontario Federation of Labour (February, 1997):
  * Book Excerpt from Unfair $hares: Corporations and Taxation in Canada"

"Third" World

• Bhagirath Lal Das:
  * A critical analysis of the proposed investment treaty in WTO
• Thomas Hanke (Die Zeit):
  * The MAI in "DIE ZEIT" (article in German)

Trade

• Aziz Choudry:
  * APEC and Free Trade
• Norman Solomon:
  * The Media's Love Affair with "Free Trade"

Transnational Corporations (TNCs)

• Tony Clarke:
  * Unmasking the Political Agenda of Transnational Corporations in APEC
  and the Processes of Globalization

Treaty

• Scott Nova, Michelle Sforza:
  * The Mystery MAI Treaty Negotiations
• Tony Clarke, Maude Barlow, Ed Finn, Jim Grieshaber-Otto:
  * MAI-Day! The Corporate Rule Treaty
• Aziz Choudry:
  * Investment Treaty Rotten to the Core
• Bhagirath Lal Das:
  * A critical analysis of the proposed investment treaty in WTO

TRIPs

• Vandana Shiva:
  * TRIPs and the Environment

World Bank

• Joseph Hanlon (Gemini News Service):
  * World Bank Blunder in Mozambique
• Daphne Wysham:
  * Destroying Orissa, Fueling Climate Change: A Joint Project of the World Bank, Transnational Corporations, and G-7 governments

WTO

• Edmund L. Andrews (New York Times, May 9, 1997):
  * WTO Overrules Europe's Ban on U.S. Hormone-Treated Beef
• Bhagirath Lal Das:
  * A critical analysis of the proposed investment treaty in WTO

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