[lbo-talk] Dimming Hopes for Free Trade (was free trade is popular...)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 2 11:18:30 PST 2003


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Cf. "The Pew Global Attitudes Project is chaired by former Secretary
>of State Madeleine K. Albright and directed by Andrew Kohut of the
>Pew Research Center for the People & the Press" (at
><http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0602-05.htm>). The survey's
>"findings," in my opinion, tell us more about which political party
>in the USA is the party of orthodox neoliberalism than about the
>attitudes of multitudes toward the old Washington Consensus which
>has been mislabeled "free trade": the Democratic Party.

You sound like Feldman. Do you have any reason to doubt the poll's findings other than citing affiliations? And don't you think the imperial elite wants to know what the world thinks of the U.S.?

Doug



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