A scathing critique of reporting on an of 'free trade'

from the article "Like the rest of his well-paid cronies in the media Establishment who rail on populism, he expects us to believe - without a shred of actual factual proof or "reporting" - that the poor farmer in the developing world is eager to be thrown off his land by subsidized multinational agribusiness companies..."

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by stuart on 03/04/08 (0 of 0 people found this comment informative)

It could be argued that NAFTA is directly, though not solely, responsible for the growing gap between rich and poor in this country as well as central America.

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by rylan on 03/04/08 (0 of 0 people found this comment informative)

To review: Our trade policy includes no labor, environmental or human rights protections, but includes restrictive protections for corporate profits - patent protections that keep drug prices high in the developing world, intellectual property protections that hurt innovation in the developing world, etc. Our trade policy also includes massive agricultural subsidies rigged to reward multinational corporate agribusiness over family farmers both here and abroad. ... wtf? ... that is most assuredly *not* the Will of the People.

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