The Walking Zombie of the WTO
The Global Exchange provides an inside view of the World Trade Organization from their perspective in the article, The Walking Zombie of the World Trade Organization. This article expresses surprise on the part of the author that the WTO is still an active entity. The article goes on further to provide a chronology of defeats the WTO has suffered. Several of their annual meetings have been shut down or postponed by activist outpourings and demonstrations. The debacle in Seattle, Washington is referenced along with the activist chant that the World Trade Organization kills forests.
The Global Exchange takes the position that the World Trade Organization represents the corporate entity’s interest in procuring world wide wealth and power at the expense of the world’s education, clean water, culture, and forests. In short, they are accused of being interested in profit only. The World Trade Organization is accused of being tyrannical. However, the Global Exchange accurately points out that the WTO has met with a coalition of social activists supported by poor country governments and have proven a worthy adversary. The WTO, despite being supported overtly by the United States and European Union, has been unable to have its way without resistance.
To date WTO opponents have had some success in stalling WTO progress but obviously have not “killed” it despite the Global Exchange’s claim the WTO has died on several occasions. The question is will the WTO be deterred successfully in the long run given they are supported by the only two “super powers” left in the global economic and military world; or, will the adversaries eventually be crushed by might as Saddam Hussein’s administration was? With the WTO's upcoming meeting in December of 2005, we may have the answer this year.
The Global Exchange takes the position that the World Trade Organization represents the corporate entity’s interest in procuring world wide wealth and power at the expense of the world’s education, clean water, culture, and forests. In short, they are accused of being interested in profit only. The World Trade Organization is accused of being tyrannical. However, the Global Exchange accurately points out that the WTO has met with a coalition of social activists supported by poor country governments and have proven a worthy adversary. The WTO, despite being supported overtly by the United States and European Union, has been unable to have its way without resistance.
To date WTO opponents have had some success in stalling WTO progress but obviously have not “killed” it despite the Global Exchange’s claim the WTO has died on several occasions. The question is will the WTO be deterred successfully in the long run given they are supported by the only two “super powers” left in the global economic and military world; or, will the adversaries eventually be crushed by might as Saddam Hussein’s administration was? With the WTO's upcoming meeting in December of 2005, we may have the answer this year.
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