Spoils of a massacre
23 Jul 2001
In Indonesia 35 years ago, a military dictator took over, a million people were killed and a red carpet was rolled out for western capital. It was the start of globalisation in Asia, a model for the rest of the world, leaving a legacy of sweatshops and corruption.

The state is more powerful than ever; the view that big business alone shapes the new world order is wrong
9 Jul 2001
There is a view fashionable in the media that the world is being taken over by huge multinational corporations, accountable to no one. "Governments are reduced to playing the role of servile lackeys to big business," Noreena Hertz, the dissident financier, wrote in these pages recently. Even the US government has surrendered state power, she says, citing "George W Bush's shameful obsequiousness to big energy corporations".

The violence of a few protesters in Gothenburg is trivial. Blair runs a violent government, which sells lethal weapons
25 Jun 2001
The young people who have had the courage to take to the streets on every continent, and were among the 20,000 protesters at Gothenburg, should take satisfaction from the panic of new right politicians like Blair and Berlusconi.