Multinational Monitor
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006 - VOLUME 27 - NUMBER 1

FEATURES:

Not Kosher: The Ralph Reed-Jack Abramoff Connection.
by Andrew Wheat

The United States, Bolivia, and the Political Economy of Coca
by Gretchen Gordon

The CAFTA Chronicles: Strong-Arming Central America, Mocking Democracy
by Tom Ricker and Burke Stansbury

Thais Take to the Streets to Stop U.S. Trade Agenda
by Martin Khor

Drilling East Timor: Australia's Oil Grab inthe Timor Sea
by Charles Scheiner

INTERVIEWS:

Saving $60 Billion: Lawrence Korb's Common Sense Budget Defense Plan
An Interview with Lawrence Korb

The Market for Virtue: The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility
An Interview with David Vogel

DEPARTMENTS:

Behind the Lines

Editorial
The Lobby Reform Fiasco

The Front
Philippines Gets Stomped - EPA Program Off Track

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Names In the News

Book Notes

Resources

Organizations Publications

Texans for Public Justice
609 West 18th Street, Suite E
Austin, TX 78701
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tpj.org

Common Cause
1133 19th Street, NW, 9th floor
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commoncause.org

Public Citizen
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.citizen.org

Commercial Alert
4110 SE Hawthorne Boulevard 123
Portland, OR 97214
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commercialalert.org

The Democracy Center
P.O. Box 22157
San Francisco, CA 94122
E-mail: [email protected]
www.democracyctr.org

Andean Information Network
Casilla 4817
Cochabamba
BOLIVIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ain-bolivia.org

The Council on
Hemispheric Affairs

1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 1C
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.coha.org

Washington Office on
Latin America

1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.wola.org

Center for Economic
and Policy Research

1611 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC, 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cepr.net

Quixote Center
P.O. Box 5206
Hyattsville, MD 20782
E-mail: [email protected]
www.quixote.org

Committee in Solidarity with
the People of El Salvador

P.O. Box 8560
New York, NY 10116
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cispes.org

Citizens Trade Campaign
P.O. Box 77077
Washington, DC 20013
E-mail: [email protected]
www.citizenstrade.org

Doctors Without Borders
333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
www.accessmed-msf.org

Oxfam America
26 West Street
Boston, MA 02111
E-mail: [email protected]
www.oxfamamerica.org

Global Exchange
2017 Mission Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA
www.globalexchange.org

Nicaragua Network
1247 E Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.nicanet.org

Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
1830 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.nisgua.org

Interhemispheric Resource Center
P.O. Box 2178
Silver City, NM 88062
E-mail: [email protected]
www.irc-online.org

Essential Action
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.essentialaction.org

Consumer Project on Technology
1621 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20009
www.cptech.org
Third World Network
121-S, Jalan Utama, 10450
Penang
MALAYSIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.twnside.org.sg

Focus on the Global South
CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok
THAILAND
www.focusweb.org

FTA Watch
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ftawatch.org

bilaterals.org
E-mail: [email protected]
www.bilaterals.org

Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th St NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
www.ips-dc.org

East Timor and Indonesia
Action Network

P.O. Box 15774
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.etan.org

La'o Hamutuk
P.O. Box 340
Dili
TIMOR-LESTE
E-mail: [email protected]
www.laohamutuk.org

Timor Sea Justice Campaign
E-mail: [email protected]
www.timorseajustice.org

Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: [email protected]
www.americanprogress.org

Business Leaders for
Sensible Priorities

10 West 18th Street
9th floor
New York, NY 10011
E-mail: [email protected]
www.sensiblepriorities.org

Center for Defense Information
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cdi.org

IBON
Room 303
SCC Building Int. Old Sta.
Mesa, Manila
PHILIPPINES
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ibon.org

Environmental Integrity Project
919 18th Street, NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
www.environmentalintegrity.org

Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities
820 1st Street, NE, #510
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cbpp.org

Economics Policy Institute
1660 L Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.epinet.org

United for a Fair Economy
37 Temple Place, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ufenet.org

Wal-Mart Watch
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC 20036
www.walmartwatch.com

Wake-Up Wal-Mart
1775 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
WakeUpWalMart.com

Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood

Judge Baker Children's Center
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA 02120
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commercialexploitation.org

Center for Science
in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cspinet.org

Alliance for Human Research
Protection
142 West End Avenue, Suite 28P
New York, NY 10023
www.ahrp.org
A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Three Options Presented As Presidential Speeches
By Lawrence Korb
New York: Council on Foreign
Relations Press, 20033

"The Korb Report: A Realistic Defense for America"
By Lawrence Korb
New York: Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, 2006

The Market For Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility
By David Vogel
Washington, DC
Brookings Institution Press, 2005

Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America
By David Vogel
New York: Basic Books, 1990

Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change, and Globalization By William Robinson
New York: Verso, 2003

"CAFTA's Weak Labor Rights Protections: Why the Present Accord Should be Opposed"
New York: Human Rights Watch,
March 2004

Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia
By Oscar Olivera with Tom Lewis
Boston: South End Press, 2004

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
By Thomas Ferguson
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1995

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