[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [mil-corp] Unfair Trade Creates Breeding Ground for Terrorism: NGOs (fwd)

[Al Kagan]

FYI, I especially like the idea of calling what the WTO is up to 
"economic fundamentalism."

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>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 17:13:32 -0800
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>From: International Network on Disarmament and Globalization <info at indg.org>
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>Subject: [mil-corp] Unfair Trade Creates Breeding Ground for Terrorism: NGOs
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>Network members:
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>As the free trade agenda marches on "as if to war" at the World Trade
>Organization in Qatar, many civil society groups are building a new
>analysis of globalization that incorporates militarism.
>
>Here is a report from some of those NGOs who are in Qatar, shadowing the
>ministerial of the WTO ministerial.
>
>Steve
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>Unfair Trade Creates Breeding Ground for Terrorism: NGOs
>
>by Agence France Presse
>
>   Doha, Qatar. Nov. 10.
>
>Anti-globalization groups, attending a WTO  ministerial meeting here,
>charged yesterday that corporate-driven global  trade practices create a
>breeding ground for terrorism.
>
>  "The last two decades have been marked by inequality and poverty  and
>also unrestricted trade liberalization...which creates conditions  for
>terrorism," declared Walden Bello of Focus on the Global South.
>
>  "The regional context in which this conference is being held cannot  be
>ignored," Bello said, accusing the WTO of meeting like "ostriches  with
>their heads in the sand."
>
>  He was speaking as World Trade Organization ministers opened a
>five-day conference here.   Bello said that it would be an "act of
>fundamental responsibility" for the WTO and delegation heads to issue a
>"strong statement asking for an end to the misery and tragedy being
>inflicted on Afghanistan."
>
>  "International trade and politics are inseparable," he said.
>
>  Naseem Bukhari of Noor Pakistan warned that up to seven million  Afghan
>refugees would flee the US bombardment of their country--reprisals for
>harboring Osama bin Lade, deemed the prime  suspect by Washington in the
>September 11 terror attacks in the United  States.
>
>  While condemning the outrages in New York and Washington that  killed
>thousands, Bukhari suggested that the United States should  reassess its
>"interventions and policies in the world."
>
>  Anuradha Mittal of the United States-based Food First said there  was a
>"ground-zero being created in Afghanistan as we speak," a  reference to
>the term used for the site of the bombed trade towers in Ne  York.
>
>  "It is important to look at the structural causes of why people are
>angry," Mittal added.
>
>Maude Barlow of the Coucil of Canadians likened the military  strikes on
>Afghanistan, " to trying to find cancer cells with a blow torch."
>
>  She said the U.S.-led coalition in the campaign against terrorism  was
>bullying the Third World nations into adopting war economies," that
>dilvered the monies previously earmarked for health and education into
>military and border security.
>
>  "U.S. President George Bush was also using the events of Septemeber  11
>to " impose a model on the whole world based on market values, North
>American dominance and deregulation," Barlow said.
>
>  "There is a Third Way, and that is not the agenda of economic
>fundamentalism the North is pushing on the South, but fair trade
>practices," she said.
>
>  Joshua Mata of the Philippines, based Alliance for progressive  Labor
>said that the suicide jet liner bombings were being used to,  "bamboozle
>developing countries into implementing a new trade round."
>
>  The outrages have changed the international scene according to  Mata,
>"against the poor and in favor of the right wingers."
>
>  "We are seeing a country bombed into the stone age." Bello warned,
>adding that efforts to paint the globalization movement as somehow
>linked to terrorism were "malicious."
>
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