Re: Re: Re: Re: Foot Soldiers & Loyal Opposition (was Re: anarchism)

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:

> I continue to see the problem as one of the US attempting
> to assert itself against more general efforts to make and
> carry out mutually agreeable multilateral agreements.
> We are going to put trade sanctions on other countries
> for violating human rights even though we have Leonard
> Peltier in jail and vigorously practice capital punishment.

Yeah, you continue to see the problem that way, but you have no
evidence for the  view. Clinton typically proposed making labor
rights violations sanctionable under the WTO in a newspaper interview
early in the WTO week, either knowing that it'd go nowhere or
consciously lying (the guy has been known to do that, right?). The
very next day his negotiators were saying that the president
"misspoke." While there's no risk the AFL-CIO will work against Gore,
there is some risk they will sit on their hands, and an even greater
risk that union members will stay home on election day.

Who is this US that's going to do these things? John Sweeney? Ha.
Bill Clinton? Ha. The Fortune 500? Ha.

Doug