Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 358
Free Trade Agreements Promote Corporate Interests
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 (IPS) - So-called free-trade agreements (FTAs) are generally presumed to promote trade liberalization, but in fact, they do much more to strengthen the power of the most influential transnational corporations of the dominant partner involved. While FTAs typically reduce some barriers to the international trade in goods and services, some provisions strengthen private monopolies and corporate power.
Looting and Unrest Spread in Mexico Over Gas Price Hike
- Inter Press Service
Mexico City, Jan 12 (IPS) - "We are absolutely fed up with the government's plundering and arbitrary decisions. We don´t deserve what they're doing to us," said Marisela Campos during one of the many demonstrations against the government´s decision to raise fuel prices.
China’s Billion-Dollar Re-entry in Sri Lanka Met with Public Protests
- Inter Press Service
BERAGAMA, Jan 09 (IPS) - Beragama is a typical Sri Lankan rural village, with lush green paddy fields interspersed by small houses and the village temple standing at the highest location. Despite being close to the island's second international harbour and its second international airport, Beragama appears untouched by modernity.
Native Seeds Sustain Brazil’s Semi-Arid Northeast
- Inter Press Service
APODI, Brazil, Jan 06 (IPS) - In his 76 years of life, Raimundo Pinheiro de Melo has endured a number of droughts in Brazil's semi-arid Northeast region. And he remembers every one of them since 1958.
Lessons from the Demise of the TPP
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 05 (IPS) - President-elect Donald Trump has promised that he will take the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) on the first day of his presidency. The TPP may now be dead, thanks to Trump and opposition by all major US presidential candidates. With its imminent demise almost certain, it is important to draw on some lessons before it is buried.
Poor Darwin – Robots, Not Nature, Now Make the Selection
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 05 (IPS) - When British naturalist Charles Darwin published in 1859 his theory of evolution in his work On the Origin of Species, he most likely did not expect that robots, not nature, would someday be in charge of the selection process.
Anti-Fracking Movement Alarmed at Trump’s Focus on Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
2017 -- A Thunderous Clash of Politics, Economies and Policies
- Inter Press Service
PENANG, Jan 02 (IPS) - Yet another new year has dawned. But 2017 will be a year like no other.
No More Mass Deaths from Drought in Northeast Brazil
- Inter Press Service
OURICURI, Brazil, Dec 30 (IPS) - The drought that has plagued Brazil's semiarid Northeast region since 2012 is already more severe than the 1979-1983 drought, the longest in the 20th century. But prolonged dry spells no longer cause the tragedies of the past.
Bringing South Africa’s Small-Scale Miners out of the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 28 (IPS) - In a country with unemployment rising above 25 percent, South Africans are increasingly looking for job creation in small-scale mining, an often-informal industry that provides a living for millions across the continent.
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