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• Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky Covert Action Quarterly – 1999-11-24 Author’s Note This article published under the title Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order was written ten years ago in ...
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• Smashing Chinas Great Firewall... through trade disputes?

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 460
  Who needs new laws or external pressure? A new paper argues that broad Internet censorship regimes might already be illegal under World Trade Organization rules about free trade. But no government seems eager to take on China at the WTO over the issue.
  23 hours ago

• Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle By Michel Chossudovsky

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  In a bitter irony, a handful of civil society organizations, which had formally opposed the WTO, unwittingly contributed to legitimizing the WTO’s global trading architecture. Instead of challenging the very existence of the WTO as an an intergovernmental body, they established a dialogue with the WTO and Western ...
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• Singapores stratospheric per capita trade

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 472
  The 21 member-states of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting in Singapore today include three of the worlds biggest trading nations --- America, the worlds biggest importer and third biggest exporter, China, second in exports and third in imports, and Japan, fourth in exports and imports. Only Germany, ...
  5 days ago

• Norway, Canada join forces in asking WTO to ban seal hunting

  
  Press Release Distribution - NewsWire- Caymanmama.com — Authority: 532
  Reno, Nevada (CaymanMama.com) — Celebrities around the world have opposed the commercial seal hunt that inhumanely takes the lives of thousands of innocent seals each year. In an attempt to ban this terrible act, Norway has joined forces with Canada in requesting that the World Trade Organization (WTO) settle its ...
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• E.U. Finds Trade Barriers Rising Since Global Crisis

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  But a report from the European Union suggests there is no sign of the spiral of protectionism that some feared when the worldwide downturn took hold last year.
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• Obama in China: Breaking the Exchange-Rate Deadlock

  
  Economix — Authority: 733
  What should President Obama say to China -- and to its neighbors, who also increasingly find Chinas exchange-rate policy worrying, particularly as the dollar faces pressure to decline?
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• African Trade Ministers have Called for Unified Vision on Trade

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  African Ministers of Trade started their deliberations with the focus on development to formulate an African position towards the negotiations of the Doha Round which began in 2001. The African position on the issue of development will be one of the key topics to be discussed during the seventh ministerial meeting of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hey, Asia! Want to Reduce Your Dependency on Exports to the U.S.?

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 117
  http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE59N0HW20091025 The above-linked Reuters article was too good to let pass without comment.  It seems that Asian leaders have gotten together to discuss how to go about reducing their dependence on exports to the U.S. in order to correct global trade imbalances. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Church Registration in Vietnam Inches Along

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Assemblies of God obtains ‘operating license,’ but quest for recognition continues.HO CHI MINH CITY, October 23 (CDN) — The Assemblies of God (AoG) in Vietnam on Monday (Oct. 19) received an “operating license,” which the government described as “the first step . . . before becoming officially legal.” ...
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• Ecuador Amazon Problem

  
  Gary A. Scott — Authority: 471
  Many readers sent me an article from Agora Financial entitled “The Chevron Witch Trial: The Changing Face of Resource Nationalism ” about the Ecuador Amazon problem and the ensuing Chevron lawsuit. See why these Ecuador export tour delegates are creating earning potential and doing some environmental good. ...
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• Hopeless Farmers Sell Wives, Kill Themselves

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  By Jennifer Hardy It is a day of celebration in northeast India as the Chhath festival takes place. However, this day dedicated to the solar deity, Surya, may be overshadowed by the economic turmoil being experienced by the region’s rural farmers. Just yesterday, news surfaced here in the west about poor farmers ...
  2 weeks ago

• GE Pushes for Multilateral Free Trade on Cleantech

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 625
  General Electric Co. (GE) says a trade deal in environmental goods and services, separate from the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of talks to open up world trade, is needed to help global efforts address climate change, reports Reuters.GE, the world’s biggest maker of electric turbines and jet ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medvedev Says Russia Will Join WTO

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev has said he has no doubt his country will join the World Trade Organization despite delays due to the establishment of a customs union with two other ex-Soviet states. Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus agreed in early June to form a customs bloc. Its Customs Code will be presented ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cowen: Examples of successful government bureaucracies

  
  PublicOrgTheory — Authority: 106
  Tyler Cowen addresses the useful and timely question, “what are some examples of successful government bureaucracies?”:Wars aside, here is a short and very incomplete list: the NIH, the Manhattan Project, U.C. Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Fairfax County, the World Trade Organization, the urban planners of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yes, Man!!!

  
  Daily Renewal: Freethinking Bipartisanship — Authority: 131
  The Yes Men will be back in theaters this Friday, but they’ve been around for at least five years, posing as representatives of Dow Chemical, Halliburton, the WTO, and other corporate monsters. So you’d think the news media would kind of be onto them by now, right? You’d figure that Andy Bichelbaum’s face ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Morning Edition

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 595
  Once again, another day begins. Predictable, isn’t it? Nonetheless, we are braced for the usual steady stream of interesting items. Meanwhile, we would like to point out that we are having some tech work done to the site, so please excuse any interruptions when clicking through to various pages. Your patience is ...
  4 weeks ago

• E.U. Seeks Compromise on Chinese Shoe Imports

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A proposal to extend anti-dumping duties on Chinese and Vietnamese shoe exports for a minimum of 15 months aims to satisfy both shoemakers and retailers in Europe.
  4 weeks ago

• Putin hints that he could return to lead Russia

  
  The Konformist Blog — Authority:
  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6831459.ece September 12, 2009 Vladimir Putin hints that he could return to lead Russia until 2024 Richard Beeston in Moscow Vladimir Putin has given his strongest hint yet that he is considering a return to the Kremlin, a move that could allow the combative ...
  8 weeks ago

• Pressure Building On KC-X Award

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 143
  The recent semi-private World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling in the Airbus subsidiaries matter is now inserting itself into the U.S. Air...
  8 weeks ago

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