Participatory Economics Project

IMF Says Its Policies Crippled Argentina 7/30/04 Paul Blustein, Wa. Post

At Inequality,org Free Markets and Poverty Full article  Christian E. Weller and Adam Hersh 1/1/02  TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 1. Free Markets and Poverty. Christian E. Weller and Adam Hersh.
Arianna Huffington 8/23/02 Scandal Fatigue: Putting The Corporate Crime Wave Into Perspective
Mark Weisbrot Globalization Fails to Deliver the Goods
 CEO Greed, Worker Sacrifice Since last September
Jude Webber (Reuters 6/16/02) Emergency in Southern Peru  Protests against IMF policy leads to 7 deaths

Oregon Campaign
Link to Anti-27   A campaign with a lot of bucks

Media
Media Bias Report  http://www.fair.org/extra/0205/power_sources.html
    Journalism's Dangerous Patriotism
  Oh fiddle....  Appellate Court Eases Limitations for Media Giants
  Shop Till You ... Stop!
  Recent Media Decision Imperils Democracy

Agriculture
 Researchers Warn of Seed Contamination: Genetically Modified Corn Can Cross-Pollinate with Organically Grown Crops
     We're Poisoning Our Children
     CRG -- The Basmati Battle And its Implications for Biopiracy and Trips
     CRG -- Monsanto Moves to Control Water Resources and Fish Farming

The Environment
  Opposition Stalls Genetic Profiling Plan for Tonga
  Glaciers on Thin Ice: Expert Says Melting to be Faster Than Expected
  Goodbye Cruel World Rifkin on climate change
  Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses: Global Warming Blamed
Behind Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions NY Times 10/24/05  

Globalization Agreements Information
Scott, Global Policy Network, 11/17/03 The High Price of "free" Trade - NAFTA  
A.C.E.R.A. (Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America)Feb. 2001.  Freedoms that are Abolished by the FTAA
 NAFTA Advisory Commitee on Private Commercial Disputes
 Resoulution of International Trade Dispites (Adobe)
 NAFTA Cases
 Here is a new Chapter 11 case under NAFTA -  Environmentalists Urge Pesticide Fight
 The 'Genius of Capitalism'
 Globalization Has to Take Human Rights into Account
 Usual Suspects: Essay #5
 Womens International League for Peace and Freedom -  Globalization Links
Mobilization against the FTAA  Many Oppose Trade Deal
*** New Report on NAFTA Chapter 11 Cases Report is in Adobe PDF format
 Wired for Business or Democracy? Internet and democracy
 CRG -- IMF/World Bank/Enron/Bush (interview)
** Greg Palast on Joe Stiglitz (former chief economist for the World Bank)  The Civilian Toll
     Greg Palast  GATS GOT HIS TONGUE
     Greg Palast  Venezuela and Argentina: A Tale of Two Coups
T Christian Miller 8/19/02 Colombia's Drug War Attracts Dubious Ally
Congressman Barry Sanders 8/19/02 $30 Billion IMF Bailout for Brazil is a WIndfall to Banks, Disaster for US Tax Payers

Enron and Corporations
 How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility
 The Enron Model: A Preamble for the Constitution of the Corporations of the United States
 The Enron Scandal: Why Was No One Minding The Store?
 Enron's Influence Reached Deep Into Administration (washingtonpost.com)
 Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the 1990's
 The American Problem Is Domination of Politics by Money
Melanie Warner  (CRG) The Big Guys Work for Carlyle

Corporate Welfare
 HR2939 Corporate Welfare Committee
  HR1888 Corporate Welfare - Elimination of certain subsidies

Ashcroft Freedom of Information Memorandum FOIA Post (2001): New Attorney General FOIA Memorandum Issued

Global Loans
 How the IMF Sank Argentina
 Conundrum in Colombia: Backing Both Sides
 World Bank, IMF Threw Colombia Into Tailspin

Heartening things .....
 Citibank Targeted by Wave of Student Protests
AlterNet: 12 Things to Do Now About Corporations
 

Coltan - Cell phones and death
 BBC News | AFRICA | Congo's coltan rush
 Guns, Money and Cell Phones
 NPR - Radio Expeditions: Coltan Mining and Eastern Congo's Gorillas (listen to the NPR report)
 
Privatization of Public Interests
 Children are Victims of Privatization, Warns Charity
 Desperate Bolivians Fought Street Battles To Halt A Water-For-Profit Scheme. The World Bank Must Realize Water Is A Basic Human Right
8/20/02 Corporate Capture Next Week's Earth Summit Will Not Only Fail to Tackle the Ecological Crisis. It Will Make It Worse
9/2/02 The Nation Who Owns Water? (1)
9/2/02 Hightower, The Nation Going Down the Road
10/2/02 Molly Ivins, Chicago Tribune, Perils of Capitalism? Think Water Distribution 
Naomi Klein 10/24/01 in the "Canadian Globe" (privitization and the terrorist crisis)  The Real Battle Lines
  
Economic Information
1/21/04 EPI, Jobs shift from higher paying to lower paying industries 
EPI Welfare Issues Guide  - long list of articles

International Development  Issues
Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development  UNDP
Human Development Reports - Statistics 
Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World HDR Report 2004 by UNDP