From http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/549/
Australia-US FTA: Sick and poor will lose out BY ALISON DELLIT Playing “Deputy Dawg” to US President George Bush has its rewards, and the big bone that Prime Minister John Howard anticipates being tossed as a reward for sending Australian troops to Bush's war in Iraq is a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. Like all of Howard’s enthusiasms, however, this is a gift for big business — not for the rest of us. [.. read on ..] ---- WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: EU-US trade war heating up BY EVA CHENG Bilateral trade conflicts between the world's two biggest economic blocs — the US and the European Union — are escalating, threatening to undermine their collective ability to screw the Third World, especially within the framework of the ongoing Doha Round of global trade talks under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). [.. read on ..] ---- Both from Green Left Weekly, August 13, 2003. Visit the Green Left Weekly home page @ http://www.greenleft.org.au/ -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
