Re: Monbiot on the WTO

[Ian Murray <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: 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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There was criticism of the entire neoliberal institutional matrix in
Seattle. The IMF/WB/Treasury axis of exploitation, extraction and
appropriation were not in town to take part in the festivities. We would
have been happy to lock them down.


Ian