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- AFL-CIO: Global Economy--What is WTO? - Introduction to the WTO, and other information on how the WTO affects labor and working families.
www.aflcio.org/globaleconomy/whatiswto.htm
- Domestic Constituencies - Noam Chomsky analyzes and criticizes the World Trade Organization and other aspects of modern State-run markets.
www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9805-domestic.html
- Foreign Policy In Focus: World Trade Organization - An analysis of the WTO by a cooperative of policy institutes.
www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol2/v2n14wto.html
- Freedom to Trade: WTO's Promising Anniversary - One of the foremost policy institutes analyzes the dangers and potential benefits of the World Trade Organization
www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg20n1e.html
- GATT, NAFTA, and the Subversion of the Democratic Process - Analysis of WTO and erosion of democracy, environmental safeguards, and labor protections. Written by Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO_CAGE.html
- Globalize This - The best and brightest activists, educators and organizers expose and critique the WTO. Book edited by Kevin Danaher and Roger Burbach. Common Courage Press, 2000.
www.commoncouragepress.com/danaher_globalize.html
- Hell, no. We won't trade - Dori Jones Yang looks at how the WTO became a lightning rod for protest. [U.S. News]
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/991101/wto.htm
- Seattle Apology - A Seattle resident offers public apology to WTO countries for the allegedly spoiled and uncivilized activists who disrupted the city in 1999.
sorry-wto.8m.com
- The Force of Ethics--& Seattle: Contempt Causes Insanity - An Aesthetic Realism commentary defining economic freedom--what does it mean for the world and its wealth to be owned in a way that is free?
www.EliSiegel.net/seattle-ethics-Tro1394.htm
- The MAI Shell Game - The World Trade Organization (WTO) - An article, by Global Trade Watch, which introduces the WTO, and it's track record.
www.tradewatch.org/Shell_Game/Wto.htm
- The Passion for Free Markets - Noam Chomsky introduces the WTO, and the drive to export American values through it.
www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9705-free-markets.html
- The Real Threat to U.S. Sovereignty - Heritage Foundation article defending the WTO , addressing many criticisms like the loss of national sovereignty to an unalleged world government which keeps its hearings and "trials" secret.
heritage.org/library/categories/trade/lect497.html
- The Rumble in Seattle - Article by Stephen Van Esch looking at the arguments of "saner minds" concerning the WTO.
www.spark-online.com/february00/esociety/vanesch.html
- The Structure of WTO - This is a very informative outline of the structure and function of the WTO.
www.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ355/choi/wtoworks.htm
- Third World Traveler: World Trade Organization (WTO) - Articles offering an alternative view to the corporate media on the impact of the policies of the United States' democratic government.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/WTO_MAI/WTO.html
- Use WTO Process to Push China on Rights - Human Rights Watch believes that WTO membership won't itself reform the Chinese system or lead to political changes, but it could be an important catalyst over the long run if combined with consistent pressure from outside China.
www.hrw.org/press/1999/nov/china1025.htm
- Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy - Attempts to translates the WTO's trade rules and track record into understandable prose for the layperson, policymaker and academic alike.
www.tradewatch.org/publications/wtobook.htm
- World Bank Bonds Boycott Campaign - News, background, materials, and information on the international campaign using grassroots financial and political power to demand an end to socially and environmentally destructive policies and projects.
www.worldbankboycott.org
- WTO Links - Corporate Reform's dozen major links about WTO.
www.corpreform.org/Wto_Links1.htm
- WTO Watch Archive - Mother Jones magazine coverage of the 1999 World Trade Organization's failed talks, the protests which surrounded them, and plans for 2000.
www.motherjones.com/wto
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