Articles by Robert Weissman

Assessing the G-20 Declaration

December 1, 2008 | This contradictory document identifies financial institution failures and calls for new regulatory measures, and at the same time, salutes the free market and some of the institutions behind the financial and economic crisis.

"Free Trade" and Medicines in the Americas

October 6, 2005 | The U.S. is pushing a negotiating agenda for the FTAA that would dramatically limit each country’s ability to undertake compulsory licensing, an important tool to promote generic competition.

Sell the Gold, Free the Poor

September 29, 2005 | When historians look back over the past 25 years, one of the great crimes they will identify is the Third World debt crisis.