Issue 250: November/December 2003

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features

• Stop Killer Coke

  Madeleine Baran

  Paramilitaries murder union leaders at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia.

• Fields of Free Trade

  Timothy A. Wise

  Mexico's small farmers in a global economy.

• Do Farm Subsidies Really Matter? Two Views

  Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

  False Promises on Trade

  Gawain Kripke

  Make Trade Fair

• Whose Right to Water

  Kevin Murray

  Corporations seek to privatize the most basic of all natural resources.

• Backs to the Wall

  Lucy Mair and Robyn Long

  The apartheid wall devastates the Palestinian economy.

• Fiscal Lockdown: PART II

  Julie Falk

  Will the prison industrial complex survive state budget cuts?

the regulars

• the short run
• letters
• active culture Tenants force concessions from apartment management giant
• up against the wall street journal What spending boom?
• ask dr. dollar Can tax cuts really increase government revenue?
• balance sheet Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria