By Bill Berkowitz / NEWSFORCHANGE
What do hog farms have in common with genetically engineered corn? What do Polish and Greek farmers have in common with Native Americans and small family farmers in the United States? Unchecked corporate globalization.
Agence France Presse
BERLIN, Sept 28 (AFP) - International Monetary Fund managing director Horst Koehler said on Thursday that he seeks fundamental reform of the IMF and that he wants globalisation to benefit all states, not just the wealthy ones.
By DIRK BEVERIDGE, AP Business Writer
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Their voices may have been hoarse from chanting "smash the IMF," but anticapitalist activists began screaming with joy as the world's top financiers closed their summit a day early.
WTO NEWS
I would like to make the following remarks at the conclusion of this 12th meeting of the China Working Party. First, the discussions and meetings that we have had over the past two weeks mark yet another important step in China's process of accession to the WTO.
By Rossella Brevetti The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Renewal of fast-track trade negotiating authority is "vitally" important to next year's trade expansion agenda, Rep. Phil Crane (R-Ill.) said Sept. 26.
