Re: Monbiot on the WTO

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Monbiot:

> So let us campaign not to scrap the World Trade
> Organisation, but to transform it into a Fair Trade
> Organisation, whose purpose is to restrain the rich
> while emancipating the poor. And let us ensure that
> when George Bush tries to sabotage the multilateral
> system in September, we know precisely which side we
> are on.

I am not sure if I agree with this. It would have been nice of
course if we can transform the World Trade Organization (WTO)
into a Fair Trade Organization (FTO), but one question I have is
this:

Is the WTO transformable into an FTO?

>>
Who knows where the road may lead us, only a fool would say
Who knows what's been lost along the way
Look for the promised land in all of the dreams we share
How will we know when we are there? How will we know?
<<

Best,

Sabri