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I guess this is what "free trade" means...1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 days ago: The corporations are free of pesky union regulations, and can trade off basic human rights for profi … more »

Tags: Álvaro Colom, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Economy & Business, Guatemala, Organized Labor (Sindacatos), Trade agreements and issues

"Plan Merida" -- if not in Mexico's best interests, then who's?1 comment

richmx2 wrote 4 days ago: The war on drugs in Latin America is fought more by private-sector mercenaries and national armies t … more »

Tags: Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, George W. Bush, Gringolandia

Media survey: Politicians rethink food-based ethanol1 comment

balkan wrote 5 days ago: Christian Science Monitor Not too long ago, corn ethanol was being touted as the energy wave of the … more »

Tags: News, biofuels, ethanol, Agriculture, Globalisation, Politics, climate change, Food crisis, Environment

Speculate to accumulate

balkan wrote 5 days ago: The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation promised that more trade would help … more »

Tags: Agriculture, biofuels, Business, climate change, déforestation, Economy, Environment, ethanol, extreme poverty

Pakistan: 5.6 million mobile subscribers added in 2008

Raza Rumi wrote 5 days ago: By Romail Kenneth KARACHI: In the first three months of 2008 more than 5.6 million mobile subscriber … more »

Tags: development, Pakistan

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis

classicglassock wrote 6 days ago: From The Independent (UK) The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving … more »

Tags: GeoPolitics

Multinationals Make Billions In Profit Out of Global Food Crisis

chrisy58 wrote 6 days ago: I read this and I thought it was very good so I wanted to post it here.  I believe that this i … more »

Tags: Political Issues

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis

balkan wrote 1 week ago: Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is … more »

Tags: Food, biofuels, Hunger, ethanol, Agriculture, Globalisation, Politics, climate change, Food crisis

Agricultural corporations boast huge profits in midst of food crisis

Raza Rumi wrote 1 week ago: By Naomi Spencer As inflation and shortages expose billions to hunger worldwide, agricultural giant … more »

Tags: Bangladesh, poverty, Asia, inequality, corruption, World, Food Security, Procurement, Globalization

I Faced Hunger Today. Did You?

Barbara Peterson wrote 1 week ago:  What I want to know is how far above third-world status do you think you are? How long before the … more »

Tags: nwo

Oil Multinationals Rebuked For Reluctance To Tackle Corruption

Raza Rumi wrote 1 week ago: “Most leading oil multinationals fall well short of best practice on revealing financial data … more »

Tags: corruption, Globalization

On Anarchy Again

masomenosbien wrote 2 weeks ago:            Today I ran into another example that supports my idea of some kind of Ethic An … more »

Tags: Uncategorized

The rice shortage and soaring food prices

kiko7 wrote 2 weeks ago: “World food shortages to stay; Riots a risk: UN.” “The rice crisis, How could it h … more »

Tags: News, Commentaries, Side Comments, media

Ask the Diplomat: What's With Starbucks?1 comment

betterdiplomacy wrote 2 weeks ago: Welcome to our first session of what will be an ongoing series here at BETTER DIPLOMACY called … more »

Tags: Ask the Diplomat

¡SUPER ADELITA!2 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Taking their name from las Adelitas, the women of the Revolution who served as everything from colon … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, Economy & Business, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Little old ladies, Manifestaciones, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Mexican History 1921+, Oil and PEMEX

Bad things come in threes...1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Manuel Pérez Rocha and Sarah Anderson: President George W. Bush will soon host what has become an … more »

Tags: Canada, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, George W. Bush, Gringolandia, New Orleans, Política mexicana, Security and Prosperty Partnership (SPP)

The World According To Monsanto

Autochon wrote 3 weeks ago: The war on traditional agriculture by megacorporation Monsanto is described in a French documentary … more »

Tags: Science, Journalism, Propaganda, Economics

But the retirement plan sucks1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: It may be a hoax, but someone hung a banner on a Nuevo Laredo overpass advertising good jobs with f … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, drugs, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Human Rights, provincia, military, Evil-doers, Tamaulipas

TV worth watching1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: You probably won’t find this on U.S. television, nor on the Mexican stations (well, maybe Cana … more »

Tags: Economy & Business, Oaxaca, technology, Agriculture, Food and Drink, provincia, World (outside the Americas), Environment, health


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