----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Monbiot on the WTO
> isn't the WTO run according to the principle of one country/one vote, while > the IMF and World Bank are controlled by their big stockholders (mostly the > US)? If so, then the WTO is a relatively democratic organization (though of > course the "voters" represent those in power in their countries) -- and > Monbiot is more correct than those who want to abolish the WTO. It suggests > that the Seattle anti-WTO demos were poorly aimed, that they should have > been aimed at the IMF/World Bank/US Treasury axis of weasels. > =================== There was criticism of the entire neoliberal institutional matrix in Seattle. The IMF/WB/Treasury axis of exploitation, extraction and appropriation were not in town to take part in the festivities. We would have been happy to lock them down. Ian
