Sojourners. March 15, 2007.

Twenty-seven million slaves exist in our world today. Girls and boys, women and men of all ages are forced to toil in the rug loom sheds of Nepal, sell their bodies in the brothels of Rome, break rocks in the quarries of Pakistan, and fight wars in the jungles of Africa. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension magazine, March/April 2007 issue

Imagining an alternate global politics could hardly be more pressing. Mounting global inequalities, the turbulence of climate change and recurring military interventions by Western powers has been the daily fare of the neoliberal world order. This world order was constructed over the last two decades under the hegemony of the U.S., in alliance with key European, Japanese and Canadian allies. (Keep reading…)

Published on Friday, February 16, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. What do we make of this? (Keep reading…)

WTO Watch DEcember, 2006

I. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: has Pascal Lamy run out of ideas?

On 16 November, WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, gathered WTO members together to seek agreement on a path to restart the stalled Doha negotiations. Pascal Lamy gave the green light to the Chairs of all the negotiating bodies (including on agriculture, non-agricultural market access (NAMA), services and development) to resume their work. (Keep reading…)

Multinational Monitor July/August 2006 Volume 27 No. 4

A living wage, modest restraints on working hours and rules requiring notice be given before workers are fired all interfere with the “ease of doing business,” according to a leading World Bank report. (Keep reading…)

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/10/17/us_export_unionbusting.php

October 17, 2006

China, that bastion of cheap labor, announced last week that it will soon pass laws to empower real unions. China’s leaders said its millions of workers need genuine labor unions to help bridge the growing gap between rich and poor, to prevent social unrest and to curtail the country’s notorious worker abuses. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension, November/December 2006 Issue

The website of Canadian mining multinational Barrick says its vision is “to be the world’s best gold mining company by finding, acquiring, developing and producing quality reserves in a safe, profitable and socially responsible manner.” (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension, November/December 2006 Issue

Up a flight of stairs, behind double-enforced bulletproof glass and a large, silent bodyguard sits the office of Francisco Ramirez, a mining-policy researcher and president of a small Colombian trade union. (Keep reading…)

GlobalResearch.ca

It’s now approaching five years since the Taliban government in Afghanistan was deposed by American bombing and the reoccupation of the country with the former mujahedeen and so-called regional warlords, together with invading US troops. So what has happened in this almost five-year period? (Keep reading…)

special to Canadian Dimension

Following the demise of the Soviet Union in the early ’90’s a quaint thought wafted warm and fuzzy from the ever credulous pens of official punditry. ‘NATO’, they said, ‘could now be disbanded. The Cold War is over. Three cheers for the new era of peace.’ (Keep reading…)