Profit and loss

[jbor]

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>From: Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>

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>>And isn't this precisely the purpose of all those international and
>>cross-sectorial trade talks in Uruguay, Seattle, Melbourne, Montreal?
>
> No. These talks are capitalists and their governmental supporters working
> out ways of improving the workings of the current system, which will
> continue to run on exploitation, greed and the division of our species into
> rulers and ruled, and the sacrifice of the lives and welfare of many of the
> latter for the comfort and easy living of the former.

I'm not sure that Kofi Annan, or Nobel Prize-winning Bengali economist,
Amartya Sen, fit your confrontationalist travesty of those attending or
supporting the trade talks:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sen/

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,465796,00.ht
ml

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                Unless we convince developing
    countries that globalisation really does benefit them,
      the backlash against it will become irresistible.
      That would be a tragedy for the developing world,
            and indeed for the world as a whole.
                                Kofi Annan, Seattle

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