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News Articles
| EUROPE: Europe’s Vast Farm Subsidies Face Challenges
by STEPHEN CASTLE and DOREEN CARVAJAL, New York Times
December 29th, 2009
The last time the European Union decided the future of its 50 billion euro agricultural aid program, in 2005, the deal was cut behind closed doors in a luxury suite at the five-star Conrad Brussels hotel. Now, 2013 is closer at hand and a new round of maneuvering has begun to reshape the richest system of agricultural handouts in the world. |
| FIJI: Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle
by Anna Lenzer, Mother Jones
August 17th, 2009
Obama sips it. Paris Hilton loves it. Mary J. Blige won't sing without it. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool? |
CorpWatch Blog
| Popular Uprising Against Barrick Gold in Tanzania sparked by killing of local
by Sakura Saunders, ProtestBarrick.net
December 14th, 2008
Why would "criminals" set fire to millions worth in mine equipment?
How was it that these "intruders" had an estimated 3,000 people backing them up?
In what appears to be a spontaneous civilian movement against Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold miner, thousands of people invaded Barrick`s North Mara Gold Mine this week in Tarime District and destroyed equipment worth $15 million. |
CorpWatch Exclusives
 | Regulating Ramatex: Authorities Shut Out as Malaysian Investor Threatens Namibian Environment
by Moses Magadza, Special to CorpWatch
April 5th, 2009
For nearly six years Ramatex Textile and Garment Factory barred government regulators from entering industrial premises leased from the City of Windhoek. Ramatex came to Namibia in 2001, lured by the newly implemented African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Evidence of environmental violations finally emerged after the company absconded. |
 | Lessons of Empire: India, 60 Years After Independence
by Nick Robins and Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch
August 14th, 2007
60 years after India gained independence, British capital is still exploiting poor communities in its former colony. Centuries after Britain's East India Company -- the world's first multinational -- faced protests in London, a group of villagers continue the tradition of resistance. |
 | Trademarking Coffee: Starbucks cuts Ethiopia deal
by Anton Foek, Special to CorpWatch
May 8th, 2007
Starbucks, the world's largest coffee shop chain, and the Ethiopian government are on the verge of unveiling a deal that the company hopes will end attacks on the company's carefully constructed ethical image. |
Commentary & Analysis
| CENTRAL AMERICA: Bush Administration Using Implementation of CAFTA Agreement to Further Expand Corporate Rights
by Tom Ricker and Burke Stansbury, Commondreams
January 11th, 2006
January 1, 2006 marked the date that the Bush Administration set to implement CAFTA. However, progress has been frustrated due to the US’s insistence on significant constitutional reforms in the CAFTA countries. Such steps prove that the implementation process – like the negotiations and the ratification of CAFTA – is undemocratic, lacks transparency, and demonstrates the manner by which CAFTA serves only multinational corporate interests. |
 | Is Agriculture the WTO's Achilles' Heel?
by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South
February 19th, 2003
In this report from the Tokyo mini-ministerial, activist and scholar Walden Bello looks for cracks in the WTO's armor on the road to the September summit in Cancun. |
| CANADA: Not One or Two, but Hundreds of Protests
by Naomi Klein, Globe and Mail
April 24th, 2001
It's not just that the police didn't get the joke, it's that they don't get that they the new era of political protest, one adapted to our post-modern times. There was no one person or group who could call off "their people," because the tens of thousands who came out to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas are part of a movement that doesn't have a leader, a center, or even an agreed-upon name. |
| Women and Children -- Labor Base of Mexican, North American Economy
by Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News and Analysis
March 2nd, 1999
The murder of 13-year-old Irma Angelica Rosales should lead to a time of reflection about the nature of the north American economy. To a degree we seldom stop to consider, women and children increasingly provide the labor base of the North American economy, including what supposedly represents its most "advanced" sectors. |
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