Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1999, over 40,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference.

Explore globalization's journey from ancient trade routes to modern policies and its effects on global economic and cultural ...

The new documentary WTO/99 reconstructs the 1999 protests against a global neoliberal trade order, the violent police repression, and the hope for a different world that found vibrant expression on ...

Trade ministers from 142 nations have gathered in Doha, the capital of Qatar, to launch what they hope they will be a new round of global trade talks. The last time the World Trade Organization met in ...

And anarchists were in the thick of these protests and solidarity actions, whether in Rio, Johannesburg, Prague, Istanbul, New York or Dublin, demonstrating an impressive organizational ability, ...

In recent years, a growing bipartisan consensus against trade and globalization has put U.S. foreign economic policy into a tailspin and raised concerns over a retreat of U.S. leadership among our ...

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The India-EU trade agreement is largely rooted in rules of the globalization era. Unlike recent deals struck by the US, it is WTO-compliant. It signals that countries with limited leverage value the ...

The prospect of higher tariffs and other unfriendly trade policies is bad news for everyone exposed. By definition, tariffs raise costs, which is bad for inflation, productivity, economic activity, ...

For a time, globalization was synonymous with utopia: the untrammeled flow of capital across borders, new markets waiting to be opened, the growth of developing nations flaunting their comparative ...

Ian Bell’s retrospective view of the 1999 WTO protests depicts an inflection point in the history of American protest, the police state, and the new economic order. By 10 a.m. on the morning of ...