Aziz Choudry

  • Small nation, big message

    An Evergreen IslandA film by Fabio Cavadini and Mandy KingFrontyard FilmsOrder from <cavadini@tpgi.com.au> We are swamped with information about the impact of corporate capitalism, structural adjustment and the power and

  • PACIFIC ISLANDS: New trade deals reflect old agendas

    Leaders of Pacific island states met August 16-18 at the 32nd Pacific Island Forum on the island of Nauru to discuss the creation of a regional free-trade area. Facing imminent depletion of the high quality phosphate reserves on

  • NEW ZEALAND: Battling to derail the TNCs

    WELLINGTON — New Zealand is the most transnationalised economy in the Western world, according to the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2000. Most of New Zealand's productive, financial, energy, retail, transport, media and

  • APEC 1999 to be exposed and opposed

    CHRISTCHURCH — The New Zealand government is the chair of APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) for 1999. We are now entering a period of hard sell for the government and business leaders who support APEC's goal of a "free"

  • SAP-ping the Pacific

    POHNPEI, Micronesia — Following in the footsteps of the missionaries before them, the cheerleaders for the free market have flocked to the Pacific. Like their predecessors, they claim that they alone have the truth, the light and

  • Secret investment treaty revealed

    Since 1995, OECD governments have been negotiating a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). Following the leak of a draft copy in January, people worldwide are appalled at the vastly expanded freedoms for investors being