@ September 20, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Firas Al-Atraqchi Former Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf, told Abu Dhabi TV that U.S. Senators maintained communication with Iraqi officials between 1991 and 1997, and delivered a set of “requirements” that the Clinton administration hoped would help Iraq return to the international fold. He also reiterated that since 1991 Iraq had no [...]
@ September 20, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By Peter Calamai Officially, the ceremony at the Coast Guard base in Quebec on August 26 was intended to mark the formal launching of three related activities focusing on the Canadian Arctic – a research icebreaker, a new scientific collaboration and a five-year investigation of climate change. Yet, the event also signaled two developments with [...]
@ September 19, 2003 # No Comment Yet
By George Ochenski The affairs of the World Trade Organization seem a long way from the everyday concerns of most Montanans. But just as last week’s meeting of the WTO collapsed over conflicts between the rich and poor nations of the world, don’t be too surprised if the policies of the Bush administration and their [...]
@ September 17, 2003 # No Comment Yet
RESOLUTION #1 – ONE BIG PARTYWhereas Canada has been losing its political and economic sovereignty as a result of international treaties including the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement containing the “national treatment†clause which gives foreigners the right to buy our resources and industries at firesale prices, and Whereas [...]
@ September 17, 2003 # No Comment Yet
The termination of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) fifth Ministerial Meeting on Sunday was met with boisterous cheers by the anti-globalization activists gathered outside, ritual finger-pointing among the delegates huddled inside, and a sobering awareness among all present of the crumbling legitimacy of the WTO regime. The failure of the organization’s 148 member-nations to reach [...]
@ September 17, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Historical victory against corporate model of globalization CANCUN, MEXICO – The Council of Canadians praised international civil society and the leaders of developing and least-developed countries for calling Canada, the United States and the European Union’s bluff, which led to the collapse of the WTO 5th Ministerial Meeting in Cancun. “This is an historical victory, [...]
@ September 16, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Pitman to Keynote Canadian Action Party Biennial Convention Walter Pitman, former president of Ryerson Polytechnic University, will be the keynote speaker at the Canadian Action Party's Biennial Convention to be held this Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st at the Royal Canadian Legion, #101, 3850 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto. “We are absolutely delighted that Dr. [...]
@ September 16, 2003 # No Comment Yet
U.S. and EU Intransigence Exposes WTO's Growing Crisis of Legitimacy; Sends Debate on Future of Corporate Globalization and WTO Home to Nations Worldwide Statement of Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch The WTO's ever-growing crisis of legitimacy has burst into public view again as the WTO's Cancun Ministerial summit collapsed this weekend [...]
@ September 16, 2003 # No Comment Yet
Editor - I read with interest your article on why young voters, and others, are turning out less and less to vote the last few years, but am at a bit of a loss as to why your writer would not mention the single overriding reason for this phenomenon. Ms Hurst interviews various people who come [...]
@ September 15, 2003 # No Comment Yet
The Cancun round of the WTO meetings has collapsed as developing nations balk at the old and new proposals. A block known as the G21 grew to become a force to derail the wishes of the Quad – America, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Farm subsidies were the biggest hang-up of the week. Members of the [...]