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Pastimes : No to WTO! Seattle 1999 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (143)	12/5/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 187

Great article, thanks. It's good to see that some people in the media get it. <<<<That's a lot of power for an institution created by and for transnational corporations. The biggest structural concern with the WTO is, quite simply, that transnational corporations are calling the shots and are the primary beneficiaries of its rulings, at the expense of countries that want to protect their environment, food safety, workers' rights, or other public policy values unrelated to profit. The problem with the WTO, in this view, is not that it promotes free trade; it's that it bans any other factors as a legitimate basis for public policy. We are left with a secretive, corporate- dominated, free-market-above-all entity that can trump any national government in its policy-making.>>>>