"Free Trade" Impacts Sovereignty,Does It..?

[AGENDA21]

America's ability to make its own laws and rules in every aspect of life is being transferred piecemeal to the UN's World Trade Organization.

The underlying goal of the drive for so-called free-trade agreements has always been control of national sovereignty. When the world-government advocates couldn't entice nations to give complete control of their governments to the United Nations via some single act, they aimed to achieve this goal through incremental power grabs by such UN subsidiary groups as the World Trade Organization (WTO).

U.S. participation in the UN began with Senate approval of the UN Charter in July 1945. By far the most important individual responsible for bringing the UN into existence -- even writing its charter -- was Alger Hiss. Later found to be a secret communist agent whose loyalty to the USSR superseded any devotion to his native America, Hiss would also play a pivotal role as the chairman of the U.S. delegation at the founding conference of the International Trade Organization (ITO) in Havana, Cuba, in 1947.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_3248.shtml

What are your opinions on this article?

[iamtechus]

1. Black helicopters etc.

Absolutely ridiculous. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has nothing to do with the UN.

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. The WTO was part of GATT's Uruguay Round

and not the UN. However, they can and will force you to change your laws or pay heavy fines. The US has changed tax laws and dumping laws by order of the WTO. The NAFTA agreement's Chapter 11 has forced state and local governments to change laws.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Tramples soverignty, stomps on it ,and then mashes it into the dirt.

America's masterplan is to force GM food on the world

The reason the US took Europe to the WTO court was to prise open lucrative markets elsewhere

John Vidal
Monday February 13, 2006
The Guardian

Just a few years ago, World Trade Organisation officials used to act hurt when described by social activists as irresponsible, secretive bureaucrats who trampled over national sovereignty and placed free trade over the environment or human rights. But that was when the global-trade policeman ruled on disputes that had little bearing on Europeans.

The WTO court's latest ruling will greatly increase the number of people who believe the organisation needs radical reform, if not burial. This week three judges emerged after years of secret deliberation to rule that Europe had imposed a de facto ban on GM food imports between 1999 and 2003, violating WTO rules. The court also ruled that Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Luxembourg had no legal grounds to impose their own unilateral import bans. "Europe guilty!" shouted the US press. "This is glorious news for the Bush administration," said one blogger.

Actually, the judges said much more, but in true WTO style no one has been allowed to know what. A few bureaucrats in the US, EU, Argentina and Canada have reportedly seen the full 1,045-page report, and an edited summary of some of its conclusions has been leaked. But no one, it seems, will take responsibility for the ruling, which may force the EU to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate some of the world's most heavily subsidised farmers, and could change the laws of at least six countries that have imposed GM bans.

Continued at:
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1708781,00.html

Above WTO ruling being discussed on this DU thread;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x429080