Withdrawal from World Trade Organization and Political Sponsorship

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I'm sorry for not appending my introductory warning and explanation on this

issue of Withdrawal from the World Trade Organization. I had recently sent it

out, June1 the day before with this statement. I was rushed and forgot this

time. It is said that a broken clock tells the right time twice a day anyway.

From the June 1 Post:

The Article below provides a lot of detail as to the extreme importance of

going to this link to send a form letter to congress with one mouse click to

urge removal of the USA from the WTO by passing H J Res 27

_http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=7655411_

(http://capwiz.com/jbs/issues/alert/?alertid=7655411)

The articles supporting this issue are written from a very conservative

perspective. While the original institutions may have been proposed after World

War 11 to get some forms of social control over international capital flows,

subsequent years have seen the rise of international corporate officials to

dominate and even become the delegates to these international trade

organizations (WTO and Codex). This does not negate the valid criticisms of

these Supra

National Trade Organizations that are beyond popular control and

accountability. The more progessive Public Citizen Trade Watch makes a similar

analysis

but does not seek to support withdrawal from the World Trade Organization.

Nevertheless the excellent Book with article " Whose Trade Organization " by Lori

Wallach of Public Citizen _http://ww

w.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=7304_

(http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=7304) does seem

to give support for this position, but they do not take a position on the

Resolution. But they do take a position opposing the Central American Free

Trade

Association (CAFTA) the other half of that post. Which should have been

cited.

The article also should have indicated that Public Citizen is also opposing

CAFTA and form letters can be sent from their site.

as in the message below I forwarded on 5/4/05.

Send the form letter against CAFTA to your Senators and Congressmen from

these two websites:

http://www.stoptheftaa.org/ and http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/

You can learn much more about this threat at both of these sites, which

between them cover the whole political spectrum. To learn more about the Codex

vitamin issue per se, visit http://www.iahf.com where you can also sign up for

the email distribution list to learn more about this issue and how to fight

back.

I apologize for this oversight. My excuse is that the person who drafted the

Email- Hammell did not include it this time as he had previously.

In this instance this extremely conservative organization has taken a

position that is merited by the facts.

arnold