Re: Monbiot on the WTO

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Monbiot on the WTO

isn't the WTO run according to the principle of one country/one vote, while the IMF and World Bank are controlled by their big stockholders (mostly the US)? If so, then the WTO is a relatively democratic organization (though of course the "voters" represent those in power in their countries) -- and Monbiot is more correct than those who want to abolish the WTO. It suggests that the Seattle anti-WTO demos were poorly aimed, that they should have been aimed at the IMF/World Bank/US Treasury axis of weasels.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Murray [mailto:seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 7:37 PM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L] Monbiot on the WTO
>
>
> I was wrong about trade
>
> Our aim should not be to abolish the World Trade Organisation, but to
> transform it
>
> George Monbiot
> Tuesday June 24, 2003
> The Guardian
>
> A few years ago I would have raised at least two cheers. The US
> government, to judge by the aggressive noises now being made
> by its trade
> negotiators, seems determined to wreck one of the most intrusive and
> destructive of the instruments of global governance: the World Trade
> Organisation. A few years ago, I would have been wrong.
>