Sunday, June 7, 2009

The Final Cog: Resource List


Research Links:

The following links worked at the time of this posting. This list does not include all of the links from the body of my report. Between the links provided here and in the report, you will be reading for months!

Globalization – General Info

Centre For Research on Globalization:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/

The Americas Program:
http://americas.irc-online.org/

Global Trade Watch:
http://www.citizen.org/trade/ftaa/

The original FTAA website:
http://www.ftaa-alca.org/alca_e.asp

Does the FTAA Have a Future?:
http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/schott1105.pdf

Electronic Frontier Foundation:
http://www.eff.org/

Bilaterals.org
http://www.bilaterals.org/

Council on Foreign Relations:
http://www.cfr.org

Foreign Trade Information Systems: Free Trade Treaties:
http://www.sice.oas.org/agreements_e.asp

The Mercosur Consulting Group:
http://mercosurconsulting.net/mmix/index.php

Peoples’ Global Action:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/en/index.html

African Unity

Website of the African Union:
http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm

South Asian Unity

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation:
http://www.saarc-sec.org/

Association of South East Asian Nations:
http://www.aseansec.org/

Asian Unity

The Boao Forum for Asia:
http://www.boaoforum.org/boao/main/index.htm

The Australian Newspaper: The Asian Union
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23812768-601,00.html

Association for the Asian Union
http://www.au2010.org/intro.html

ASEAN to form an Asian Union?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7436

South American Unity

UNASUR Uniting South America:
http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/unasur-uniting-south-america-51659.aspx

Mercosur Trade Center:
http://www.mercosurtc.com/

A Guide to MERCOSUR Legal Research:
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/mercosur.htm

European Commission External Relations – Mercosur:
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/mercosur/index_en.htm

Southern Common Market:
http://actrav.itcilo.org/actrav-english/telearn/global/ilo/blokit/mercosur.htm

BBC Profile of Mercosur:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5195834.stm

South American Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative (IIRSA, the South American version of the Puebla-Panama Plan):
http://www.caf.com/view/index.asp?ms=17&pageMs=41608

Global Forum on Governance: IIRSA
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/50/39612363.pdf

Information on the Progress of IIRSA:
http://www.choike.org/2009/eng/informes/4603.html

Office of the US Trade Representative: Colombian Free Trade Agreement:
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Colombia_FTA/Section_Index.html

Citizen’s Trade Campaign: Colombian Free Trade Agreement:
http://www.citizenstrade.org/cfta.php

Center for Trade Policy Studies: Colombia FTA:
http://www.freetrade.org/node/839

Oppose the Colombian FTA:
http://www.witnessforpeace.org/downloads/Col_FTA_factsheet.pdf

The Andean Community Website:
http://www.comunidadandina.org/endex.htm

European Commission’s External Relations – Andean Community:
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/andean/index_en.htm

Mercosur Database:
http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/eng/34983.html

Central American Unity

European Commission’s External Relations – Central America:
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/ca/index_en.htm

SICA and Opportunities for Internetworking:
http://www.isoc.org/INET97/proceedings/E5/E5_1.HTM

Secretariat of Central American Economic Integration:
http://www.sieca.org.gt/site/inicio.aspx?lng=2

Central American Integration: Open Agenda and Pending Dilemma:
http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1377

The People’s Daily (the article that informed me about the PPP):
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200607/12/eng20060712_282313.html

Global Trade Watch – CAFTA:
http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/

Central American Bank for Economic Integration:
http://www.bcie.org/english/index.php

The CAFTA Intelligence Center:
http://www.caftaintelligencecenter.com/subpages/What_is_CAFTA.asp

Global Exchange – CAFTA:
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/cafta/

United States Department of Agriculture – CAFTA:
http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/CAFTA/cafta.asp

US Embassy, Costa Rica – CAFTA:
http://sanjose.usembassy.gov/Cafta/cafta.html

No Cheers for CAFTA:
http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/webfeatures_viewpoints_no_cheers/

CAFTA – How Elected Officials Betrayed America, by Chuck Baldwin:
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin250.htm

Eagle Forum – FTAA & CAFTA Information:
http://www.eagleforum.org/topics/FTAA/

Citizen’s Trade Campaign – Oppose the Panama Free Trade Agreement:
http://www.citizenstrade.org/panama_alert.php

Office of the US Trade Representative - Panama Trade Promotion Agreement:
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/Panama_FTA/Section_Index.html

Colon Free Trade Zone:
http://www.businesspanama.com/investing/opportunities/cfz.php

Free Trade With Panama: Some Winners And Some Losers:
http://www.coha.org/2009/05/the-panama-free-trade-agreement-separating-fact-from-fiction-and-the-good-from-the-bad/

Congressional Research Service: US – Panama FTA:
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/57846.pdf

PPP Links

Plan Puebla Panama - a Template for Domination, Injustice and Hemispheric Plunder:
http://www.lvindependent.org/_mgxroot/page_10842.html

The New Phase of the Plan Puebla Panama:
http://www.ciepac.org/boletines/chiapas_en.php?id=560

Official Website of the PPP:
http://www.planpuebla-panama.org/

Global Exchange: The PPP:
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/ppp/ppp.html

Planned Pueblo Panama Spells Disaster for Mexico and Central America:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/chiapas/planned_pueblo_panama.cfm

Action for Social and Ecology in the Regions of Central America: The PPP:
http://www.asej.org/ACERCA/ppp/ppp.php

Resisting the Plan Puebla-Panama:
http://americas.irc-online.org/citizen-action/series/02-ppp.html

Bilingual Guide to the PPP:
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/colombia/puebla/index.htm

Information on the PPP (from Spain):
http://www.ub.es/geocrit/sn/sn-270/sn-270-17.htm

Battle Over the Future of Mesoamerica:
http://www.lasolidarity.org/noppp/PDF/NoPPP-secondedition.pdf

Association of Indigenous Communities in the Northern Zone of the Isthmus:
http://www.datacenter.org/reports/mesoamericaresists-eng.pdf

CiePAC’s PPP Report:
http://www.ciepac.org/boletines/chiapas_en.php?id=527

Calderon Gives Life to Plan Puebla-Panama:
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=53164

MexConnect’s PPP Report:
http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/576-plan-puebla-panama

Who’s Connected to the PPP?
http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/1940_PPP_Suppl2_Overview.pdf

Resisting the PPP:
http://www.foei.org/en/publications/annual-report/2007/what-we-achieved-in-2007/member-group-victories/america-latina-y-caribe/el-salvador-honduras-communities-share-experiences-of-resistance-against-mining-and-dams

North American Unity

The Official Website of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America:
http://www.spp.gov/

United States Department of Agriculture - NAFTA
http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/Policy/nafta/nafta.asp

Global Trade Watch – NAFTA:
http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta/

US Department of Customs & Border Protection – NAFTA:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/international_agreements/free_trade/nafta/

Latin American Network Information Center – NAFTA:
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/Mexico/nafta/

Export.gov – NAFTA:
http://www.export.gov/FTA/nafta/index.asp

Duke University Law Report – NAFTA Guide:
http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/nafta.html

Judicial Watch – The SPP:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/SPP.shtml

The SPP - Security and Prosperity For Whom?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8375

Source Watch – The SPP:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_North_America

The Hudson Institute – Negotiating North America; The SPP:
http://www.hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/HudsonNegotiatingNorthAmericaadvanceproof2.pdf

The SPP – Militarized NAFTA:
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-security-and-prosperity-partnership-militarized-nafta/

Congressional Research Service – The SPP:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22701.pdf

Dollars & Sense - From NAFTA to the SPP:
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0108sciacchitano.html

The Canadian National Newspaper – NAFTA & the SPP:
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/12/14/01996.html

US Dept. of Homeland Security – SPP Fact Sheet:
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0695.shtm

The Alliance For Democracy – No SPP:
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/html/eng/2378-AA.shtml

Office of the US Trade Representative – NAFTA:
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Regional/NAFTA/Section_Index.html

Portal For North America:
http://new.portalfornorthamerica.org/

China

American Patriot Friends – China’s Most Favored Nation Status:
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/archive/economy/china5-97.html

Chinese Human Rights Defenders:
http://crd-net.org/Article/Class9/Index.html

Congressional Research Service – China’s Most Favored Nation Status:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30225.pdf

Seeking Security in the Dragon’s Shadow – China & Southeast Asia in the Emerging Asian Order:
http://www.southchinasea.org/docs/Acharya,%20Seeking%20Security%20in%20the%20Dragon's%20.pdf

AsiaNews.it:
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&size=

Human Rights in China:
http://www.hrichina.org/public/index

CHINAscope:
http://chinascope.org/main/index.php

Tibetan Review:
http://www.tibetanreview.net/news.php?cat=22

China Digital Times:
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/

Radio Free Asia:
http://www.rfa.org/english

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