When people talk about free trade -- and, god knows, we ought to be talking about it more than we are -- this is the system theyre talking about -- giving multinational corporations the freedom to grind up local populations, ignore local laws, poison local water supplies, and render the national governments who are supposed to represent the local populations impotent in the face of their depredations. What happens then? The local populations lose faith in their governments, which then in turn become weaker and less able to protect the local populations, and the very idea of a nation in the public mind comes crashing down. Which, of course, is the whole point. esquire/blogs/politics/canadian-company-sues-costa-rica-gold-112013
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 07:20:24 +0000
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