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 NI
(No.374)
<<CONTENTS>>
2 Letters
4 Southern
Exposure
Radical photomontage from Iranian woman Shadi Ghadirian.
5 View from
the South
Afonso Dhlakama of Renamo may once have been sponsored by apartheid
South Africa but he deserves more influence in the democratic Mozambique
of today, argues Ike Oguine.
6 Currents
The Pan-African Parliament opens in Johannesburg; disaster relief
as a transnational marketing opportunity in Haiti; resistance to US
military bases; Death Row blues in Jamaica.
PLUS: Wordpower - the language of corporations.
PLUS: Speechmarks and Seriously
9 Keynote
Littered with broken promises, the trail of free trade is leading
the world to a dead end. Wayne Ellwood makes the case for change.
12 The people
of corn
Mexico's food security is threatened by American maize, argues Laura
Carlsen.
14 Up for
grabs
Workers are caught in the cross-hairs as free trade targets the labour
movement. A report by David Bacon.
16 Taking
control in Chiapas
Hugh MacLeod looks at the Zapatista opposition to the Free Trade Agreement
of the Americas.
18 Free Trade
-THE FACTS
20 Hanging
in the balance
New trade treaties increase corporate control over patents. AIDS patients
in Peru will pay the price, argues Stephanie Boyd.
22 Affordable
drugs? Forget it!
Patricia Ranald monitors Australia's fight to hang on to its low-priced
drugs scheme in the face of mounting US pressure.
23 Race to
the bottom Illustrated by Polyp.
24 Ring of
fire
Indigenous people across the Andes are fed up with free trade. Kathryn
Ledebur reports from Ecuador and Bolivia.
26 Can't pay,
won't pay!
Roger Burbach claims foreign investors have pushed Argentina to the
wall. And now the country is pushing back.
28 Action
The fair trade alternative.
29 Worldbeaters
Calling me a CIA stooge is misleading, says Iraq's interim Prime Minister
Iyad Allawi - I spied for 15 different spy agencies.
30 Mixed Media
MUSIC, BOOKS, FILM review
32 Big Bad
World
Homophobes of the World Unite! by Polyp.
PLUS: NI Prize Crossword
33 Making
Waves
Leanne Allison and Karsten Heuer have been living with the caribou
on one of the longest migrations undertaken by land mammals, across
the Yukon and Alaska.
34 Essay -
Green light, red light
Opportunity and menace are the two sides of the human-trafficking
coin. But Lily Hyde, writing from Ukraine, smells hypocrisy.
36 Country
Profile - Western Sahara
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