Articles by Julio Godoy
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Most EU Nuclear Power Plants ‘Unsafe’
Julio Godoy – TerraViva Europe,
22 Oct 2012
The so-called ‘stress tests’ on nuclear power plants in the European Union (EU) have confirmed environmental and energy activists’ worst fears: most European nuclear facilities do not meet minimum security standards.
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Julio Godoy – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Aug 2012
New evidence suggests that even microcredit was not protected from the greed that characterises modern international finance. Two recent studies show that microfinance was simply another profit making scheme for global private finance corporations, such as the Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, and Standard Chartered, who started pouring money into microcredit initiatives. In his book, ‘Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic’, released Jul. 9 [2012], former investment banker Hugh Sinclair claims that such banks and funds use microcredit, through local operators, to charge usurious interest rates – of up to 200 percent – on even the smallest loans.
→ read full articleBankers or ‘Banksters’?
Julio Godoy – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 Jul 2012
European media, political leaders, and the citizenry are bashing bankers again, overtly calling them at best accomplices of numerous illegal activities, at worst downright criminals. The best example of this new wave of anger against bankers is the use of the portmanteau word “bankster” (a combination of banker and gangster), which has become commonplace in media, even in non English-speaking countries.
→ read full articleCollateral Damage From Fukushima Hits Europe
Julio Godoy – TerraViva Europe,
26 Dec 2011
Several leading European electricity providers and nuclear power plant constructors now count as part of the collateral damage caused by the tsunami that destroyed the Japanese nuclear power plant of Fukushima last March.
→ read full articleEU Trade Deal with India Stalemated by Threat to Affordable Drugs
Julio Godoy – TerraViva Europe,
23 May 2011
Data exclusivity (DE) would forbid the Indian pharmaceutical industry to use available formulae to manufacture generic, low-cost copies and make them available to patients in developing countries. “Data exclusivity is a backdoor way for multinational pharmaceutical companies to establish monopolies and charge high prices, even when their drug has been found not to deserve a patent or the patent has expired. Leena Menghaney, manager of Médecins sans Frontières’ recalls that, “India has been called the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’.”
→ read full articleOf Libya, France and Western Hypocrisy
Julio Godoy – Pressenza Int’l Press Agency,
28 Mar 2011
To avoid misunderstandings: Gaddafi is a brutal, cynical, corrupt dictator, who obviously considers Libya as his personal property. His sons were forged in the same furnace. And yet, to try to justify, as many do, especially the French government of Sarkozy, the international military mission against the Libyan regime as a matter of morality and values, is simply hypocritical.
→ read full articleGlobal Crisis Strengthens WSF’s Legitimacy
Julio Godoy – TerraViva Europe,
14 Feb 2011
European non-governmental organisations combating neo-liberal globalisation find their position vindicated by the ongoing socio-economic and environmental crisis upsetting the world.
→ read full articleEgyptians Can Claim Mubarak’s Stolen Billions
Julio Godoy - Inter Press Service,
14 Feb 2011
For decades, European bank accounts and trusts and the real estate market were havens for dictators seeking safe places to deposit billions of dollars they were stealing from their countries of origin… In Switzerland, the government just approved a law that eases the historical secrecy of Swiss private banks. The law allows for money deposited here by Third World dictators to be reimbursed to the legitimate governments of the dictators’ countries of origin.
→ read full articleWhen Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
Julio Godoy – Inter Press Service,
9 Aug 2010
A civil society protest against a British agrochemical company that claims it has invented a particular sort of broccoli has again focused attention on the question who owns natural biodiversity, especially vegetables, seeds, and many forms of meat and animal food products.
→ read full articleEuropean Activists against Economic Growth
Julio Godoy – TerraViva Europe,
26 Apr 2010
The global environmental crisis requires replacing the existing capitalist model of production with one that promotes “selective degrowth” of the economy and the restricted and responsible exploitation of natural resources, according to European experts and activists.
→ read full articleBIODIVERSITY: EU FARMERS FACE GENETIC CONTAMINATION OF SEEDS
Julio Godoy – Terraviva Europe,
31 Jan 2010
Biodiversity, already decaying fast as a result of climate change and intensive farming, is under further threat by genetic modification (GM) of seeds, says a leading German ecological activist. Genetic modification of seeds is dangerous, "since it is at the beginning of the agricultural chain, and can spread all over," says Benedikt Haerlin, former campaign […]
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