WTO-Whose Trade Organization? (Free Trade vs. Globalization destruction)

[papau]

I read this and found it to be clear, and with enough data to shoot down any GOPer saying WTO - (as it stands now with "intellectual" rights destoying countries, killing children, causing a no real wage gain US (real wages up 82% 1945 to 1972, and after years of WTO corporate control just about zero wage gain today over 72, destroying environmental laws, while destroying middle class and lower class standard of living as the rich get really rich) - is a good thing. Great description of how Free Trade is great - good for everyone - but WTO/Nafta were modified so as to get by the GOP controlled Congress and now are a clear and present danger to freedom and health and welfare.


http://www.citizen.org/trade/

http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=7304

Whose Trade Organization?
A Comprehensive Guide To the WTO
By Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall
Published by The New Press, Distributed by Norton

Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways – often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening exposé documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive and profoundly undemocratic World Trade Organization.

Here is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which WTO terms have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the WTO’s nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts. And, trade is the least of it: this book shows how the WTO chills government actions to fight sweatshops, make life-saving drugs available, and protect endangered species- and even limits our elected governments’ ability to maintain policies on everything from meat inspection to media concentration.

Whose Trade Organization? Offers first steps toward a democratic, accountable alternative. It reminds us that change is not only necessary – it’s possible.

[libbygurl]

1. Saw the passionate Wallach on CSPAN2 last hour (NPR Bldg in DC)!

I plan to pick up a copy of the book, too. Thanks for the reminder!

[papau]

2. It is time for the media to note that liberals are in favor of Free Fair

Trade - It is just that liberals do not join the GOP in the Corporate Globalization campaign to reduce - via the WTO - all labor, environment, health, and population protection regulation to zero in the name of free trade.

Indeed the WTO DEFINES all labor, environment, health, and population protection regulation as free trade barriers!