Examines the problems of agribusiness in the U.S. and Latin America, the expansion of corporate involvement in agriculture, and industry trends for the future

Examines the problems of agribusiness in the U.S. and Latin America, the expansion of corporate involvement in agriculture, and industry trends for the future

Product Description: Western capitalism has come of age and opposition to it has entered a period of decline. Those who hold the power enjoy such great wealth that the rest of the world's population is plunged into misery and poverty. This study falls into three parts: in the first, the authors look at how this situation has come about; in the second, they each look at how globalization has affected the US, the former USSR and the Third World...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book begins with an overview of globalization, showing how wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation state is transformed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In October 2000, Common Courage Press will publish Globalize This! The Battle Against the World Trade Organization and Corporate Rule, a collection of essays that analyze demonstrations and deliberations in Seattle and beyond. In stark contrast to the media's partial and distorted portrayal of the WTO, World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), editors Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach have compiled articles that reveal how these institutions enforce policies that are destructive of human rights and the environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is the timely story of the rise and fall General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Using interviews and intimate sketches, Roger Burbach unravels Pinochet's historty--from the violent military coup that brought him to power to his ouster in 1990 and eventual arrest in 1998. Burbach reveals the sociopathic, paranoid and authoritarian tendencies that led the dictator to murder thousands of people in the country while authorizing acts of international terrorism.

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Presents a collection of essays by journalists, political theorists, and activists that explores the context and consequences of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the war on terrorism. (view table of contents)