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The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization (Open Media Series) Paperback – January 1, 1999

by Lori Wallach (Author), Michelle Sforza (Author), Ralph Nader (Introduction)
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In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law. Wallach and Sforza make clear recommendations for altering the undemocratic course that the WTO imposes on democratic society.
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  1. Print length
    80 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seven Stories Press
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1999
  5. Dimensions
    4.25 x 0.23 x 6.72 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1583220356
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1583220351
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  • Darryl C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Informative & depressing
    Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2020
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    Here's a book that will make 95% of the US population angry & depressed. Big business runs the world. Don't like that? Well, go ahead and protest, but you'll have to go down the street 2 blocks and over one. There, you can protest there, otherwise you're a security threat and will need to be put in jail.
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  • M. T. Portela
    5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2005
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    you find out the reasons behind so muchthat seemed to be going down, to beworking against the individual.
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  • WichacpiHoskila
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not as strong as the complete book, but a good intro
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2002
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    The complete textbook, "Whose Trade Organization?" is a remarkably potent, relentlessly-documented beast of a book, which I wish more people had the time and inclination to read. This smaller edition lacks the potency and punch of the parent text, but manages to still encompass most of the critical data.
    If a book is going to be abridged like this one, chances are that it's intended for mildly curious readers who want to know, "just what are they protesting about the WTO anyway?", rather than for the scholar or intellectual activist. But I'm afraid that this book forgets its likeliest audience. For such an audience, the more effective approach would have been to describe the most extreme and outrageous WTO scenarios, leaving the reader outraged at the moral and political injustices! Instead, this book gives brief desriptions of these, and then mixes in more technical (yet abridged) histories and terms and procedural issues with the WTO. In short, it left in too much of the nuts-and-bolts when it should have displayed more of the outrageous effects on human rights, environment, national sovereinty, labor, toxins, etc.
    A second shortcoming is that the book assumes its reader is sympathetic to such concerns (environment, labor, culture, etc.). What we need is a book directed at Conservatives, explaining to them why the WTO is an insult to conservative values by supplanting the laws created by a sovereign nation, overwhelming our Constitution in favor of corporate-managed meddling, and actually defying the concept of "free trade" with shockingly-entrenched meddling from an organization that does not have the U.S.'s sovereign interests in mind.
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  • Mark Nuckols
    1.0 out of 5 stars Maria Schriver's a much better writer
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2000
    From the US Constitution of (especially the commerce clause) to the German Zollverein to the EEC and EU, the history of the modern world has been one of economic integration and removal of obstacles to trade. As for this book, I'd rather spend my money on Ms. Arnold Schwartenegger's silly book than this even sillier drivel.
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  • John Caruso
    5.0 out of 5 stars Concise, informative, and essential
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2000
    This is a concise, informative book which provides an excellent overview of the major issues raised by the WTO (and similar organizations, present and future). Specific examples are provided to illustrate exactly why the WTO is so damaging in the areas of public health, food safety, the environment, the advancement of underdeveloped nations, labor and human rights, and many others. The authors have a strong case and they basically let the (well-documented) facts speak for themselves; if anything, they're surprisingly restrained in their evaluation.
    Economic issues aren't particularly sexy, of course, and I had expected this book to be dry. It was anything but. It's a brisk read, and it packs the maximum amount of useful information into its relatively few pages. If you were confused by the protests in Seattle and Washington and want to know what those people were REALLY shouting about--something you're certainly never going to get from CNN and friends--read this book. It's an essential guide to what are fast becoming the key issues of our time.
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  • Dirk J. Willard
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for believers in democracy!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2006
    What is the leading threat to governments everywhere? --the WTO. This book details the rise of the WTO. It's stiffling of local industry in favor of cheaper, corporate alternatives. Wallach describes how corporations are attempting to patent your DNA and how farmers in India, and other places, in one example, fought back against them. This pioneering book describes, as no one else does, how governments worldwide must collaborate to control the menace of this secretive organization.

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  • The Orange Duke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy And Learn
    Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2001
    This brief, well thought out and detailed criticism of the WTO is very readable. Points out that the WTO, an unelected irresponsible body has been placed above the world's governments and given the power to nullify the laws enacted by those governments. Shows how the WTO has allowed corporations to circumvent the limitations placed upon them by government. Provides specific examples of how the WTO is systematically undermining responsible market practices. Should be read critically by those on the left and the right. If we continue on this road, we will despoil our environment, destroy representative government and enslave our people. The question here is not free trade verses no trade, as the apologists for the corporate state would have us believe, but rather who will benefit from our trade policies. The WTO is a tool of the biggest multinationals, and represents their interests alone, over everyone else. Buy it.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Buy the longer version. This is too quick, although I think the issue needs to be readdressed as more problems have arisen.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017
    I should have gotten the longer version
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