Derailing Doha Trade Deal Essential to Saving Climate

There is something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva , which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to  expand world trade and resuscitate global growth.  In the face of the looming specter of...

Japan Follows Singapore in Dealing with Foreign Activists

(Sapporo, July 6, 2008) Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn the greatest attention is the Japanese...