The WTO’s Broken Promise

By David Moberg

Trade negotiators promised that “development” of the world’s poorer nations would be at the top of their agenda during negotiations over new trade rules that the World Trade Organization members launched two years ago. They planned to focus on agriculture, since the vast majority [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    It is pretty obvious that WTO really stands for
    Wealthy Tyrannical Overlords. They car not
    what or who they hurt.

    United States Posted by chris on Sep 10, 2003 at 8:22 AM

    I agree with the author 100%.

    United States Posted by Scott Magneson on Sep 10, 2003 at 8:55 AM

    Having grown up on a farm for the better part of my life, I can quite fully understand the pain of farmers from around the world.

    Both Nafta and WTO should be scrapped or else the power of Big Business should be eliminated along with AgriFarms.

    Just what happens to all of us if and when a world wide drought happens and no one is able to farm or produce. It would be chaos indeed and would not take long for the silos etc to empty. Once the farm is destroyed there is nothing to replace it and the AgriFarms could not possibly produce sufficient food for everyone.

    Almost sounds like a recipe for the annilhation of a great portion of humanity…..

    Canada Posted by Frances Greenfield on Sep 10, 2003 at 2:08 PM

    It certainly does sound like a recipe for annilihation-and how smart is that ? It seems to me that this is a pattern of short term thinking that is abundant among the current powers that be. They seem to have forgotten that if they eliminate the people with their greed and oppression, they’ll be no one to buy their crap but themselves..

    United States Posted by Kate on Sep 11, 2003 at 1:44 AM

    When have the working ,midddle class or the poor ever been anything but capitalized by corporate America?greed begets greed.

    United States Posted by Joan Vaughn on Sep 12, 2003 at 2:24 PM

    i only agree with the author 95%.

    New Zealand (Aotearoa) Posted by adam on Sep 19, 2003 at 12:31 AM

    send it

    United Kingdom Posted by Bruce Haley on Apr 13, 2004 at 3:50 AM
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