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FTA resistance in Colombia
13-Feb-2008
interview with Aurelio Suárez
Fourteen years of NAFTA and the tortilla crisis
13-Feb-2008
Ana de Ita
The Mediterranean Union: Dividing the Middle East and North Africa
13-Feb-2008 Global Research
The Middle East and North Africa are in the process of being divided into spheres of influence between the European Union and the United States. Essentially the division of the Middle East and North Africa are between Franco-German and Anglo-American interests. There is a unified stance within NATO in regards to this re-division.
Asking hard questions about the EU-ACP EPAs
13-Feb-2008
GRAIN
Morocco’s FTA fever
13-Feb-2008
GRAIN
“Free” trade killing farmers in India
13-Feb-2008
Devinder Sharma
The struggle against neoliberalism in South Korea: history and lessons
13-Feb-2008
Korean Alliance against the Korea-US FTA
Sealing JPEPA: Through stealth and by force
13-Feb-2008
Sandra Nicolas
Fighting FTAs: the experience in Thailand
13-Feb-2008
FTA Watch
Australia-US Free Trade Agreement - fair trade or foul?
13-Feb-2008
Jemma Bailey
Social activism around FTAs
13-Feb-2008
Changing South-South trade and investment dynamics
13-Feb-2008
What is going on where?
13-Feb-2008
FTAs and Biodiversity
13-Feb-2008
Today’s FTA frenzy
13-Feb-2008
GM trials in India threaten trade ties
13-Feb-2008 Times of India
India finds itself increasingly on the defensive in agricultural trade for permitting field trials across the country in a host of genetically modified food crops — rice, brinjal, okra, potato, tomato and groundnuts — and thereby exposing conventional crops to the risk of transgenic contamination. A case in point is a rather dodgy no-contamination certificate that the regulator, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, was forced to give two months ago in response to a restriction imposed by Russia on import of rice, groundnuts and sesame seeds from India.
Corporate globalisation: Standing at the end of the road
13-Feb-2008 CounterPunch
Corporate globalization, savagely embodied by NAFTA, is not just a threat to Mexican farmers and rural villagers. The economic, health, and social damage created by industrial agriculture, corporate globalization, and the patenting and gene-splicing of transgenic plants and animals, are inexorably leading to universal "bioserfdom " for farmers, deteriorating health for consumers, a destabilized climate (energy intensive industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation and processing account, directly or indirectly, for 40% of all climate-disrupting greenhouse gases), tropical deforestation, and a rapid depletion of oil supplies.
SKorea MP stages sit-in protest to block US free trade deal
13-Feb-2008 AFP
A South Korean lawmaker has locked himself inside a parliamentary committee room to try to block moves to ratify a free trade deal with the United States
Tunisian and Algerian businessmen discuss free-trade zone
13-Feb-2008 Maghrebia
Businessmen from Algeria and Tunisia are pushing for an FTA between the two countries
Panama, Guatemala ready free trade
13-Feb-2008 Prensa Latina
Panama said Tuesday that negotiations for a free trade agreement with Guatemala is 90 percent advanced. Panama plans to negotiate a similar accord with the EU en bloc.