[lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Sep 16 08:06:10 PDT 2003


At 10:08 AM -0400 9/16/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Willy Greenfields wrote:
>
>>Somewhat off topic, but last night on CNN the melonheads were
>>wondering aloud whether the WTO is irrelevant. A remarkably simple
>>way to marginalize dissent.
>
>I tell you, it's the one-country one-vote system. This is already
>being described as "unwieldy." The U.S. is going to do its own trade
>deals and do its best to ignore the WTO. It wouldn't surprise me to
>see the Bush admin ignore a WTO ruling against the U.S.

The WTO is to the WB/IMF what the UN GA is to the UN SC. -- Yoshie

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