Texts about mercenaries

Markus Euskirchen | 25. February 2009 | Filed under: • • • Security | Leave a comment

Find lots of articles in German, English and Spanish on Dario Azzellini’s web page’s section about privatziation of war.

Madagascar: The New Land Grab

Markus Euskirchen | 24. February 2009 | Filed under: • • • • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources • Nature Areas • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

Just when colonialism was considered dead and buried, along comes neo-colonialism in its latest guise. Allied with its close relatives globalisation, free marketeering and lack of transparency, it is currently launching a new offensive on the disempowered population of this continent. Kwame Nkrumah, along with others in the post-colonial Pan Africanist movement, coined the term Continue reading →

Landgrab

Markus Euskirchen | 23. February 2009 | Filed under: • • • • Nature Areas • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

The Biodiversity-NGO GRAIN describes in a report how a host of nations – China, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and others – have been scouring the globe in search of arable land to buy or to lease for the production of crops for food or biofuels. What attracts attention is not just the amount Continue reading →

Privatization Kills

Markus Euskirchen | 19. February 2009 | Filed under: • • Health/Social Issues • Privatization | Leave a comment

Mass Communist Bloc Privatization Led To Surge In Male Deaths: Former Eastern Bloc countries that swiftly and massively privatized their state assets in the early 1990s, leading to a surge in unemployment, recorded a consequent wave of male deaths according to a recent study published by The Lancet. The consequences hold stark lessons for China, Continue reading →

Food crisis leading to an unsustainable land grab

Markus Euskirchen | 18. February 2009 | Filed under: • • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources • Nature Areas | Leave a comment

Private companies across the world are buying huge quantities of foreign land for the mass production of food. Sue Branford wonders if this quick-fix solution risks creating an even bigger environmental crisis.

Manifest for the recovery of common goods of humanity (WSF 2009 Belem)

Rainer Rilling | 14. February 2009 | Filed under: • • De-Privatization • Public Goods | Leave a comment

Manifest for the recovery of common goods of humanity The enclosure movement in England during the 15th and 16th centuries limited the access to land and its benefits to its owners, thus making it inaccessible to the public as it had been traditionally. This initiated the process of the privatization of common human necessities. Subsequently, Continue reading →

Financial Crisis’ Impacts on Public Services and PPP

Markus Euskirchen | 11. February 2009 | Filed under: • • Finances • PPP | Leave a comment

PSIRU researches the privatisation and restructuring of public services around the world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management, and healthcare. It produces reports and maintains an extensive database on the multinational companies involved and on the financial crisis’ impacts on public services and PPP. The first paper examines the impact of the economic Continue reading →

Nearly 500 enterprises privatized since 2003 in Algeria

Markus Euskirchen | 5. February 2009 | Filed under: • Privatization | Leave a comment

Some 447 enterprises have been privatized in Algeria since 2003, making the Treasury obtain some 1.4 billion euros, declared Thursday the Algerian Minister of Industry and Investment Promotion Hamid Temmar. “The revenue from the sale of public enterprises under privatization is estimated at 137 billion dinars (1.37 billion euros),” said Temmar, quoted by the APS Continue reading →

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