WikiLeaks Reveals Trade Deal Pushing Global Financial Deregulation

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 20, 2014 Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, author of "The Rise and Fall of Fast Track Trade Authority" and former Truthdigger of the Week, explains the meaning of a secret draft text of the Trade in Services Agreement, a proposal that would forbid signatory countries from improving financial regulation within their borders. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Lori Wallach

BLANK Oct 6, 2013 This critic of globalization is one of the few voices trying to alert the public to a secretive, ongoing effort to create a legal means for corporations to attack and subvert government. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross Hairs

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 5, 2013 Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Larry Summers and the ‘End-Game’ Memo

BLANK Aug 26, 2013 A 1997 memo retrieved from the filing cabinet of investigative reporter Greg Palast shows the involvement of Lawrence Summers -- Obama's current favorite for chairman of the Federal Reserve -- in a successful plan to help big bank CEOs "rip apart financial regulation across the planet." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Welcome to the Club: Russia Joins the WTO

Ivo Mijnssen / Truthdig Sep 25, 2012 For motives that are not entirely clear, Vladimir Putin's Russia has overcome stiff opposition at home and in the United States to take its place in the World Trade Organization. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

China at Odds With WTO Over Media Import Rules

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2009 It's not the first time that objections have been raised over the kinds of values promoted, whether explicitly or implicitly, by media products hailing from the general vicinity of Hollywood, but this time the issue concerns a whole country taking on a major international commercial coalition: China and the World Trade Organization, respectively. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Seattle’s Lessons for London

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Apr 1, 2009 A former police chief of Seattle -- who directed the harsh action there against 1999's WTO protesters -- has changed his views on protests, as well as on drugs. The G-20 leaders meeting in London should heed his words. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

WTO Chief: ‘Peace in Danger’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 9, 2009 The global economic meltdown reminds World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy of the 1930s, but, he says, "The crisis today is spreading even faster and affects more countries at the same time" That could lead to political unrest of the scale that produces world wars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush’s Farewell Gala

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2008 As if there was no better way to conclude the past eight years of the current administration, President Bush will host his own personalized going-away party: the world's first "global financial summit," where leaders will discuss the current global economic troubles and hopefully ways to prevent such crises from recurring. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New World Trade Treaty Plowed Under

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2008 The World Trade Organization talks in Geneva finally imploded Wednesday, as negotiations over farm subsidies and labor standards collapsed into an immovable standstill between wealthy and poorer countries. The talks, defended heavily by the "developed world," are seen by critics as an instrument to serve corporate interests. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Second Wind for WTO Talks?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2008 While supporters of the much troubled Doha Round of the World Trade Organization believe talks may have found their second wind, only the world's largest economies seem to be breathing. The form of capitalism supported by these countries is resisted by poorer nations, which rightly fear WTO deregulations would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How to Rule the World After Bush

By Mark Engler May 19, 2008 How has the Bush administration changed the world economically, and what it will mean for the next administration? Also, if Bush-style "imperial globalization" is rejected in January, what will American ruling elites try to turn to -- Clinton-style economic globalization? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )