From: Jamie Kneen <jkneen_-at-_magma.ca>
To: nowar_-at-_flora.org
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:50:24 -0500
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:07:40 -0500
To: ad207@freenet.carleton.ca
From: Richard Sanders <ad207@freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Now Online: "Militarism & Corporate Globalization"
Now available online:
"Taking Over the World: Militarism and Corporate Globalization"
Here is the table of contents (and links) for this issue of Press for
Conversion!, the quarterly magazine of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms
Trade. (The hard copy of this issue, #45, appeared in July 2001.)
"Taking Over the World: Militarism and Corporate Globalization"
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/issue45.htm>
***** Origins of Globalization *****
War Technology: The Cutting Edge of Economic Power
By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/01.htm>
The Hidden Agenda: Pax Americana and Postwar Corporate Rule
By Richard K. Moore
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/02.htm>
The U.S. versus the World: Globalization or Global Hegemony?
By Naseer Aruri, Jerusalem-born professor of Political Science at the
University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/03.htm>
***** Making the Links *****
The UN: Getting into Bed with Big Business
By George Monbiot, author of Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No
Manís Land
Lecturer in philosophy and environmental science at the Universities of
Keele and East London.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/04.htm>
The Rise of Global Corporate Power
By Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Fellow and John
Cavanagh, IPS Director.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/05.htm>
A Convergence of Globalization and Militarization
By Theresa Wolfwood, Board member, Vancouver Island Public Interest
Research Group and director, Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/06.htm>
Definitions of Globalization: Letís Not Get Confused
By Felicity Hill, Director, Womenís International League for Peace and
Freedom - UN office in New York City.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/07.htm>
Nikeís Armies: How the Military Enforces Global Capitalism
By Jeff Ballinger, founder and director of Press for Change, a New
Jersey-based consumer-information NGO monitoring workersí rights issues in
Asia.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/08.htm>
***** Military Industries *****
War and Globalization Support American Business
By Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa;
author of The Globalization of Poverty, 1998.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/09.htm>
Dealers in Death: A Visit to an International Arms Bazaar
By Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the London Independent.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/10.htm>
Did Canadian Weapons Kill Protesters in Papua New Guinea?
By Richard Sanders, Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/11.htm>
The Pentagon and International Mega-Mergers
By the Federation of American Scientists
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/12.htm>
***** Weapons in Space *****
The Spaceman Cometh: Corporate Rule and Control
By Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator, Global Network Against Weapons
and Nuclear
Power in Space
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/13.htm>
U.S. Military Plans to Fight Wars in Space
By Karl Grossman, professor of journalism, State University of New
York/College at Old Westbury; author of The Wrong Stuff: The Space
Programís Nuclear Threat to our Planet; convener, Global Network Against
Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/14.htm>
***** FTAA *****
>From the WTO to the FTAA
By Steven Staples, Chair, International Network on Disarmament and
Globalization and Issue Campaigns Coordinator, Council of Canadians.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/15.htm>
FTAA and Plan Colombia: Partners in Imperialism
By the Seattle Colombia Committee
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/16.htm>
The Poisoned Fruits of Neo-Liberalism
By Fidel Castro Ruz, President of Cuba.
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/17.htm>
***** Events and Resources *****
Conference, Teach In, List Serve, Publication
<http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue45/articles/18.htm>
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geopolitical reasons for the current war against Afghanistan.
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